E7 Now & Then

 Last week we featured the rise of the Upper Cut Club on Woodgrange Road, in 1966, as east London's premier popular music venue.  We fo...

One of the most notable features of Forest Gate's history was the appearance, and rapid disappearance twelve months later, of the Upper...

Clapton FC Supporters' Association, 1937 - not an Ultra in sight! Lew Listz, stalwart of the Friends of Clapton FC, looks forward t...

The 1881 census provides us with the first chance to see a snapshot of how the recently developing Forest Gate was turning out, as a communi...

The opening of H&T Pawnbrokers on Woodgrange Road last year wasn't the first presence by that trade in our area, by a long way. In...