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1950s street map, showing the location of the Wanstead Flats Prefabs (1945-57) TUM image id: 1642172175 Licence: CC BY 2.0	A fairground ride with traction engine on Wanstead Flats (1925) A description on reverse of the postcard says "W Nichols Whip Wop Wanstead Flats 1925" Old London postcard TUM image id: 1629996749 Licence:	Romford Road is the main road in Forest Gate. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1624020514 Licence:	Woodgrange Road, Forest Gate (1905) View coming down from the station to the Alice. Going the other way, the turning on the right is Hampton Road. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1621940085 Licence:	Woodgrange Road, Forest Gate. The first known record of the name ’Forest Gate’ comes from the West Ham parish registers of the late 17th century and describes a gate placed across the modern Woodford Road to prevent cattle straying from the open Wanstead Flats area of Epping Forest onto the Romford Road. The gate was located close to the former Eagle & Child public house. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1620301549 Licence:
Adults and children on Wanstead Flats, beside the junction of Woodford Road and Capel Road (1910). The sign to the right, on the corner of Forest Side, reads ’Banes Manor Farm Dairy’. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1630144875 Licence:	Prefabs on Wanstead Flats. Prefabs were built on Wanstead Flats in 1946 to ease the post-war housing shortage (particularly in the then Borough of West Ham). A decision was made in the late 1950s to remove them and this had been carried out by 1962. TUM image id: 1607622685 Licence:

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1950s street map, showing the location of the Wanstead Flats Prefabs (1945-57)
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Romford Road is the main road in Forest Gate.
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Adults and children on Wanstead Flats, beside the junction of Woodford Road and Capel Road (1910). The sign to the right, on the corner of Forest Side, reads ’Banes Manor Farm Dairy’.
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Prefabs on Wanstead Flats. Prefabs were built on Wanstead Flats in 1946 to ease the post-war housing shortage (particularly in the then Borough of West Ham). A decision was made in the late 1950s to remove them and this had been carried out by 1962.
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