E7 Now & Then

This is the second, and final, blog recalling the experiences of local couple, Jack Richardson and May Larby, as they meet in 1913 and engag...

The centenary of the outbreak of World War 1 is with us, and we hope, over the coming months, to record how the war impacted on Forest Gate...

Just as the war-time government had found Wanstead Flats useful for their purpose ( see here ), so those responsible for post-war reconstru...

A fascinating booklet, recently published by the Leyton and Leytonstone Historical Society, records Wanstead Flats' intriguing role as a...

Over the last few weeks we've run a couple of items on the nineteenth century Industrial School, that later became a workhouse then hosp...

May was a bumper month at Woodgrange Road's finest. Continuing our monthly series on the gigs that Woodgrange Road's upper Cut club...