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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:	Not quite sure what message is being conveyed here! Old London postcard TUM image id: 1653781310 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Blake Hall Road (1916) A postcard described as Leytonstone which is in an area more often called Wanstead nowadays. The view is looking south, possibly from a viewpoint just south of Bush Road. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1629995508 Licence:	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:	Watch Box, St Mary’s Burial Ground, Overton Drive, Wanstead (1901) The ’Watch Box’ is a memorial to Joseph Wilton (1722-1803), sculptor and founder member of the Royal Academy. The memorial was used in the 1830s as a ’watch box’ to guard against body snatchers. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1636131879 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:	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:	Early Central Line poster TUM image id: 1629993957 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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Old London postcard
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Blake Hall Road (1916) A postcard described as Leytonstone which is in an area more often called Wanstead nowadays. The view is looking south, possibly from a viewpoint just south of Bush Road.
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Despite the old postcode calling the area ’Leytonstone’, this is on the Leytonstone/Wanstead border. Either name applies.
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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.
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Postcard showing a scene in Bushwood, Leytonstone (1905) Avenue Road was a previous name for the road now called Bushwood
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