E7 Now & Then

It is less than two years since we published a 24-hour Forest Gate food trail (see here ), and we struggled to find half a dozen decent pla...

Over 95% of the contents of this site - indeed what is known about Forest Gate - relates to developments over the last 150 years. This arti...

In our recent article on Forest Gate's listed buildings we mentioned (here) that the Red House, in Upton Lane, was, for a while, home ...

We have recently acquired a piece of boxing memorabilia with sturdy Forest Gate roots. It is a copy of the programme for what was probabl...

Although various charity schools were established in England before the nineteenth century, the major push towards providing formal school...