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The courtyard of the Vestry House Museum, Walthamstow (2008) Vestry House Museum is a history museum focusing on the heritage of the local area. The collection includes various artefacts dating from the Victorian Era to the 20th Century including numerous archived documents and photographs. Credit: Geograph/Mike Quinn TUM image id: 1611236777 Licence:	Pearly kings, queens, prlncesses and assorted children and pets at the congregation of a pets service at Durning Hall on 26 June 1955, as they parade from the church past the Forest Gate Jive Academy. Credit: Newham Heritage & Archives collection TUM image id: 1556884934 Licence:	Construction of Olympic Park, London. Aerial view of the Olympic Park looking south west towards London. Credit: 2012 London Olympics Local Organising Committee TUM image id: 1556881393 Licence:	All Saints and St Paul’s Tower viewed from High Road Leyton (2006) Credit: Wiki Commons/pjcard TUM image id: 1673700045 Licence: CC BY 2.0	God’s Own Junkyard is a neon art hub, plus cafe, hidden away on a Walthamstow industrial estate, utterly beloved by international Instagram curators Credit: diamond geezer TUM image id: 1655796105 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Walthamstow’s Ancient House is a timber-framed hall house, estimated to have been first built in 1435. Credit: FB Group Londonist Urban Oddities/Keith Wells TUM image id: 1653771810 Licence:	The Eagle on Hollybush Hill, Snaresbrook. The painting is a James Pollard from the early 19th century, one of two he painted of the Eagle Credit: James Pollard TUM image id: 1620147625 Licence:	Not quite sure what message is being conveyed here! Old London postcard TUM image id: 1653781310 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The front of the 491 Gallery in Leytonstone (2009) The 491 Gallery was a squatted self-managed social centre and multi-disciplinary gallery in Leytonstone, that operated from 2001 to 2013. Taking its name from its street number, 491 Grove Green Road, the former factory was home to a community-led art organisation and served as an exhibition space for a diverse range of artists of different origins working in varied media. It contained a range of art and music studios, which were used to host workshops, classes and musical rehearsals. The building was subsequently demolished in 2016. Credit: Wiki Commons/Anka Krom TUM image id: 1637673284 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Despite the old postcode calling the area ’Leytonstone’, this is on the Leytonstone/Wanstead border. Either name applies. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1620150105 Licence:
Old cottages in College Place in Upper Walthamstow (1905) Old London postcard TUM image id: 1630146267 Licence:	Wallwood Road, E11 is named after an old house. Historian Frederick Temple placed Walwood House itself on what became Chadwick Road and Whipps Cross Road. The house with just over five acres of land, was sold in 1894 to Thomas Ashbridge Smith, a businessman from Whitechapel for £4000. The solicitors employed in this transaction and many other were Fladgate & Company and Maple, Teesdale and Company. These three provided the names of three new roads nearby. TUM image id: 1466548523 Licence:	Vivian Stanshall Mews (2019) Credit: RolandR TUM image id: 1719064304 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Undated postcard depicting "Gipsy Simon Smith and Mother, Leytonstone, London" Simon Smith (1875-1943) was a near relative of the more famous ’Gipsy’ Rodney Smith and, like him, was born in a Romany camp in Epping Forest. He became a well-known evangelist. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1629994946 Licence:	Postcard showing a scene in Bushwood, Leytonstone (1905) Avenue Road was a previous name for the road now called Bushwood Old London postcard TUM image id: 1630069329 Licence:

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The front of the 491 Gallery in Leytonstone (2009) The 491 Gallery was a squatted self-managed social centre and multi-disciplinary gallery in Leytonstone, that operated from 2001 to 2013. Taking its name from its street number, 491 Grove Green Road, the former factory was home to a community-led art organisation and served as an exhibition space for a diverse range of artists of different origins working in varied media. It contained a range of art and music studios, which were used to host workshops, classes and musical rehearsals. The building was subsequently demolished in 2016.
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Wallwood Road, E11 is named after an old house. Historian Frederick Temple placed Walwood House itself on what became Chadwick Road and Whipps Cross Road. The house with just over five acres of land, was sold in 1894 to Thomas Ashbridge Smith, a businessman from Whitechapel for £4000. The solicitors employed in this transaction and many other were Fladgate & Company and Maple, Teesdale and Company. These three provided the names of three new roads nearby.
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