Past Events Archive Forgotten Walthamstow and its late 19th Century Musical Heritage 1 Jan 20191 Sep 2019 Book Tickets Here A walk exploring the Walthamstow of the time when the railway was new and Hoe Street was still lined with grand houses; one of these was The…
Past Events Archive Insanity in the Family – Kathy Chater talk. 1 Jan 201920 Feb 2019 At Spruce Hill Baptist Church Hall, Brookscroft Road, Walthamstow, E17 4JP, starting at 8pm and finishing at 10pm. A Waltham Forest Family History Society event
Past Events Archive The History of Gilwell Park. 1 Jan 20191 Sep 2020 Caroline Pantling, Head of Heritage Services at The Scouts spoke about the history of Gilwell Park at Chingford Historical Society's August meeting held online via Zoom. From medieval manor to…
Past Events Archive Walthamstow History Walk ‘Little Bethnal Green’ 1 Jan 20191 Sep 2020 Join Walthamstow Historical Society for a walk from outside St James Street Station, Walthamstow E17 7PF.
Past Events Archive Lippitts Hill Camp in War and Peace – Bryn Elliott talk. 1 Jan 201924 Mar 2019 at The C of E Primary School, Cambridge Road, Chingford. Bryn Elliott's Website
Past Events Archive Shakespeare’s London to the West End Playhouse – Richard Gray talk. 1 Jan 201921 Feb 2019 At St John’s Hall, off High Road, Leytonstone, London E11 by the entrance to the Matalan store, (not far from Leytonstone Central Line station). Entrance: £2. A Leyton and Leytonstone Historical…
Past Events Archive Old Snaresbrook Houses. Lynn Haseldine Jones talk. 1 Jan 20191 Mar 2019 Lynn will talk about some old houses of Snaresbrook, the development of the area through the 18th and 19th centuries, looking at some houses which have disappeared, some still here, and some…
Past Events Archive The Haile Farm Estate walk. 1 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 Meet at the Millennium Clock (by Highams Park Station). The Walk lasts for 2 hours and will finish at The County Arms at midday. It costs £3 or is free…
Past Events Archive Workshop: Family Businesses and Bankruptcy. 1 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 At Spruce Hill Baptist Church Hall, Brookscroft Road, Walthamstow, E17 4JP, starting at 8pm and finishing at 10pm.
Past Events Archive Lea Valley Heritage Alliance Meeting 1 Jan 201921 Mar 2019 Venue: Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London Legacy Development Corporation, Level 10, 1 Stratford Place, Montfichet Road, London, E20 1EJ Find out about the Lea Valley Heritage Alliance and how you…
Past Events Archive In Her Footsteps: 150 years of women-led activism in East London – Esther Freeman talk. 1 Jan 201921 Mar 2019 At St John’s Hall, off High Road, Leytonstone, London E11 by the entrance to the Matalan store, (not far from Leytonstone Central Line station). Entrance: £2. A Leyton and Leytonstone Historical…
Past Events Archive A tour of Elizabethan London – Nick Dobson talk. 1 Jan 201923 Mar 2019 This talk will follow Chingford Historical Society A.G.M. at The C of E Primary School, Cambridge Road, Chingford. The image above is a detail from Visscher's View of London, 1616. ©…
Past Events Archive Jutland 1916, The Archaeology of a Naval Battlefield. Dr. Neil Houghton talk. 1 Jan 201929 Mar 2019 at St Gabriel's Church, Havant Road E17 3JF.
Past Events Archive In Her Footsteps: Women-led activism in Waltham Forest. Esther Freeman Guided Walk. 1 Jan 201931 Mar 2019 This is a ticketed walk - book tickets on Eventbrite Esther Freeman leads a walk round central Walthamstow talking about women activists of the area, with a section about Leytonstone…
Past Events Archive Walthamstow History Walk ‘Ships, Scandal & Prosperity’ 1 Jan 201915 Jun 2020 Join Walthamstow Historical Society for a walk from outside St Mary's Walthamstow E17 9RJ.
Past Events Archive Walthamstow History Walk ‘Ships, Scandal & Prosperity’ 1 Jan 201915 Jun 2020 Join Walthamstow Historical Society for a walk from outside St Mary's Walthamstow E17 9RJ.
Past Events Archive Radical Childhoods in Waltham Forest. 1 Jan 201923 Apr 2019 at St Peter’s Church in the Forest, 18 Woodford New Road, E17 3PP Many campaigners for social political, and religious change, grew up in Waltham Forest. How did their…
Past Events Archive Views of Old Waltham Forest, a pictorial tour – Alan Simpson talk. 1 Jan 201923 Apr 2019 At Spruce Hill Baptist Church Hall, Brookscroft Road, Walthamstow, E17 4JP, starting at 8pm and finishing at 10pm.
Past Events Archive The work of the Essex Record Office – Lawrence Barker talk. 1 Jan 201923 Apr 2019 at The C of E Primary School, Cambridge Road, Chingford. A Chingford Historical Society event.
Past Events Archive Before the archaeological dig. Christina Holloway talk. 1 Jan 201923 Apr 2019 Before the dig: why archaeology happens, how we know what to look for, and what might be found in your street. At St John’s Hall, off High Road, Leytonstone, London…
Past Events Archive Walthamstow Historical Society A.G.M. 1 Jan 201929 Apr 2019 at St Gabriel's Church Havant Road. Ends at 8.45pm
Past Events Archive Exhibition of photos of cultural centres – Walthamstow Central Library 1 Jan 201921 May 2019 Waltham Forest Civic Society have created an exhibition of photos of the wide variety of buildings and spaces that contribute to the cultural life of our Borough. It will be…
Past Events Archive The Wadham Farm Estate. Guided Walk 1 Jan 201921 May 2019 From the Millennium Clock (by Highams Park Station). A Highams Park Society event.
Past Events Archive “What I’m researching now” discussion 1 Jan 201921 May 2019 An opportunity for members to talk about research, finds, or ask for help. At Spruce Hill Baptist Church Hall, Brookscroft Road, Walthamstow, E17 4JP, starting at 8pm and finishing at…
Past Events Archive The Real Dad’s Army – The Home Guard. Mike Brown talk. 1 Jan 201921 May 2019 This talk follows Leyton and Leytonstone Historical Society A.G.M. At St John’s Hall, off High Road, Leytonstone, London E11 by the entrance to the Matalan store, (not far from Leytonstone…
Past Events Archive Pimp Hall Dovecote Open Day 1 Jan 201921 May 2019 See inside one of Chingford's oldest buildings, guided tours all day. Free tea and coffee. Off Kings Road E4 7HR, buses 212, 179, 397.
Past Events Archive ‘Cut-throat Alley’ the Aubrey Rd. murders – Heather Gower talk. 1 Jan 20194 Jun 2019 at St Gabriel's Church Havant Road
Past Events Archive Bauhaus: Between Revolution and Reaction 1919-1932, talk by Roger Huddle. 1 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 Roger Huddle of the Friends of the William Morris Gallery gives a talk related to the Gallery's latest exhibition Tickets £5
Past Events Archive East London and Essex in the 18th C. – Derek Morris talk. 1 Jan 201915 Jun 2019 at Spruce Hill Baptist Church Hall, Brookscroft Road, Walthamstow, E17 4JP, starting at 8pm and finishing at 10pm.
Past Events Archive Religion and Revolt on Wanstead Flats: talk 1 Jan 201920 Jun 2019 Mark Gorman and Peter Williams talk about their latest publication. St John's Hall off High Road, Leytonstone, E11 1HH (opposite the entrance to the Matalan store (close to Leytonstone Central…
Past Events Archive Cultural Centres in Waltham Forest: Exhibition: at Libraries 1 Jan 20192 Jul 2019 Waltham Forest Civic Society has created a display showing the invaluable contribution made to the borough's streetscape by community buildings.
Past Events Archive Suntrap Memorabilia Auction 1 Jan 20192 Jul 2019 Suntrap Forest Centre is hosting an event that includes a memorabilia auction of many of Suntrap's weird and wonderful artefacts.
Past Events Archive The ancestor I would most like to meet – and why 1 Jan 201911 Jul 2019 Waltham Forest Family History Society meeting at Spruce Hill Baptist Church Hall, Brookscroft Road, Walthamstow, E17 4JP. Surely somewhere in your family tree there is an ancestor who could open…
Past Events Archive Rubbish or Ritual, Medieval Treasure in the Thames, talk 1 Jan 201922 Jul 2019 John Clark. past Curator Emeritus, Museum of London St John's Church, Leytonstone Leyton & Leytonstone Historical Society members free, others £2 Over 2600 medieval objects now in the Museum of…
Past Events Archive Use of Blasphemy & Swearing in the BEF 1914-18 by Mark Connelly 1 Jan 201922 Jul 2019 at Walthamstow Cricket Tennis & Squash Club, 48a Greenway Ave, London. E17 3QN Mark Connelly will be giving a talk on 'Notes and Swearies: The Use of Blasphemy and Swearing…
Past Events Archive Celebrate the built heritage of Leytonstone High Road’s northern end 1 Jan 201922 Jul 2019 Meet outside the Library at the corner of Church Lane and the High Road E11 by 11am Sunday 21st July. What role is Leytonstone High Road's architectural inheritance playing in…
Past Events Archive Real Ale at the Walthamstow Pumphouse 1 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 Cask beer, canned cocktails and pub snack pick-n-mix: the Contemporary Cask Festival comes to Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum this August Bank Holiday. Visit from 12 noon on Sunday 25th August 2019 for weird…
Past Events Archive Hitchcock’s Leytonstone 1 Jan 201922 Mar 2020 a talk by Gary Lewis 'Hitchcock's Leytonstone' Wed 4th Sept 7.45pm St John's Church Hall beside Matalan Leytonstone High Road. Open to all, no charge.
Past Events Archive St Peter & St Paul’s Heritage Open morning 1 Jan 201922 Mar 2020 The church of St Peter and St Paul on Chingford Green is opening up its archives for everyone to explore 175 years of local and parish history. Drop by and…
Past Events Archive Local History at the Pumphouse 1 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 Local history groups will have displays at the Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum on Sunday 8th September from 11am to 4pm. A quality replica of Britain's first internal combustion engine car, made…
Past Events Archive Freedom Walk : Leytonstone’s Connections to the Slavery of Empire 1 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 Freedom Walk : Leytonstone’s Connections to Emancipation and Slavery of Empire, 2pm St John's Church, E11 1HH. Free. A guided walkabout from St John’s Churchyard to Leytonstone House and Quaker…
Past Events Archive Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood talk 1 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 A major new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery will explore the overlooked contribution of twelve women to the Pre-Raphaelite movement, including Jane Morris, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Evelyn de Morgan, Effie Gray…
Past Events Archive James Brimble, author of ‘London’s Epping Forest’ – talk 1 Jan 201922 Mar 2020 James Brimble ran a newsagent's and bookshop in Station Road, Chingford, 1940s to the 1970s. He was a well-known photographer of Epping Forest and was the author of publications about…
Past Events Archive Pimp Hall Dovecote Open Day 1 Jan 201924 Sep 2019 17th century dovecote (pigeon house) open to the public. No charge. Kings Road, Chingford E4 7HR - take the turning past the Sea Scouts and the Recycling Centre. Buses 179,…
Past Events Archive From the archive- talk 1 Jan 201926 Sep 2019 Greg Tonkin was for many years both Secretary to Walthamstow Historical Society and one of its most authoritative writers. The Society holds a considerable archive of his pictures taken in…
Past Events Archive Medieval Walthamstow: short history walk 1 Jan 201928 Sep 2019 Short walk from St Mary's Church Walthamstow E17 9RJ at 11.15am led by Neil Houghton of Walthamstow Historical Society
Past Events Archive History of St Mary’s Church and the parish of Walthamstow: Talk 1 Jan 201928 Sep 2019 Talk on the history of St Mary's Church and the parish of Walthamstow. 2.15pm by Neil Houghton of Walthamstow Historical Society in St Mary's Church, Walthamstow E17 9RJ
Past Events Archive “Families in their community” family history day 1 Jan 201922 Mar 2020 Waltham Forest Family History Society (WFFHS) is holding a family history day in support of the Borough’s Year of Culture on Saturday 28th September from 11am-4pm at Vestry House Museum,…
Past Events Archive The Monumental Brasses of St Mary’s Walthamstow 1 Jan 201922 Mar 2020 Talks, visits, walk organised by the Monumental Brass Society, Walthamstow Historical Society and the Rector and Churchwardens of St Mary's Church Walthamstow. 11.15am onwards, last event 3.45pm talk by Martin…
Past Events Archive Penny loaves, Poisoning, Poverty and Pubs – a Walthamstow walk. 1 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 Book Tickets Here Join qualified tour guide Joanna Moncrieff on a history walk around the mean streets of the Queen’s Road area of Walthamstow. Street names, building styles and plaques…
Past Events Archive The Warner Family and Highams Park. Talk. 1 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 Highams Park Society Autumn TalkHale End Library, Castle Ave, Highams Park, London E4 9QD £5 for members and £7 for non-members A Highams Park Society event.
Past Events Archive Celebrating Black British Visual Art- workshop 1 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 Peter Ashan Presents: Celebrating Black British Visual Art (Workshops) The Pioneers of Black British Art: during the 1960s to 1970s Leytonstone Library, London E11, 7 - 9 pm
Past Events Archive Fabulous Females, the inspirational women of Walthamstow School for Girls 1 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 Oona Kelly talks about the inspirational women of Walthamstow School for Girls, 1890s - 1940s including Blanche Hewett - First Headteacher, Mary Norris - Founder of the Greek Theatre, Annette…
Past Events Archive Black In Time 1 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 Black In Time - Saturday 12th October Get your groove on at our Black History Month event. blackintime Come early and share the music and dress style of the 70's…
Past Events Archive Black History Month Freedom Walks by Peter Ashan 1 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 Take a look into the Afro-Caribbean community within Waltham Forest. From the Trans-Atlantic slave trade to present day, in 3 parts, starting with Leytonstone. On Sunday 13th October 2019 the…
Past Events Archive Walking in Waltham Forest- a talk by John Rogers 1 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 Writer and film-maker John Rogers gives an illustrated talk through the walks he has led for Waltham Forest Borough of Culture as 'psychogeographer-in-residence' - from Leytonstone's Lost River, to the…
Past Events Archive Celebrating Black British Visual Art 1 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 Peter Ashan Presents: Celebrating Black British Visual Art (Workshops) October 17th: The Black British Movement in Britain: during the 1980s to 1990s Leytonstone Library, London E11, 7 - 9 pm
Past Events Archive A virtual walk around Walthamstow – Joanna Moncrieff talk. 1 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 at The C of E Primary School, Cambridge Road, Chingford . Stories include the Dickens’plagiarist, the hidden Greek theatre, the butcher/property developer and what Pepys thought of Walthamstow wine. Joanna Moncrieff is…
Past Events Archive Black History Month Freedom Walks by Peter Ashan 1 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 Take a look into the Afro-Caribbean community within Waltham Forest. From the Trans-Atlantic slave trade to present day, in 3 parts. On Sunday 20th October 2019 this 2nd walk, through…
Past Events Archive Meccano day at Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum 1 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 Legendary construction toy system Meccano is the theme at the Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum on the revised date of Sunday 20th October between 11am and 4pm. The Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum is…
Past Events Archive Door-Step Milk Delivery in Waltham Forest. Exhibition and Workshop. 1 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 Calling all Waltham Forest residents who would like to share their memories of doorstep milk delivery! Message from Maxine Beuret who has organised this exhibition and workshop: "Ideally what I…
Past Events Archive Chingford Art & Heritage Trail 1 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 Love North Chingford gathered a bunch of mostly local creatives to borrow windows and walls along Station Rd E4 and surrounding areas and make it into a gallery. Never before…
Past Events Archive Pimp Hall Dovecote open Day 1 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 Chingford Historical Society will be at the historic dovecote in the Pimp Hall Nature Reserve off Kings Road E4 7HR from 2.30pm to dusk this Thursday 24th October and Saturday…
Past Events Archive Reform and Reformation, talk by Neil Houghton 1 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 Neil Houghton outlines the changes to St. Mary's church Walthamstow and its community brought about by the Tudor Reformation. This will be followed by guided tours of the important monuments…
Past Events Archive Farms of the Past & Into the Future, a history walk 1 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 Chingford Historical Society and David Boote offer a walk in two parts: an amble round Chingford Green picturing the area before the railway arrived (a rural backwater) and then, for…
Past Events Archive Black History Month Freedom Walks by Peter Ashan 1 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 Take a look into the Afro-Caribbean community within Waltham Forest. From the Trans-Atlantic slave trade to present day, in 3 parts. On Sunday 13th October 2019 the 3rd walk, through…
Past Events Archive The Stort Story – Richard Thomas talk. 1 Jan 201917 Nov 2019 at The C of E Primary School, Cambridge Road, Chingford. A Chingford Historical Society event.
Past Events Archive The War Memorials Trust- a talk 1 Jan 201926 Nov 2019 Wednesday 20th November 2019, 7.45pm in Orient House, Leyton Sixth Form College, on Essex Road, postcode London E10 6EQ (car park); buses W15 and W19 to Essex Road South; or…
Past Events Archive Walking in the footsteps of Hitchcock 1 Jan 201926 Nov 2019 Join Gary Lewis of the Alfred Hitchcock of Leytonstone Society on a walk back in time, into the early life of Alfred Hitchcock in Leytonstone. Gary will explore the relationship…
Past Events Archive Wish You Were Here- talk 1 Jan 201929 Nov 2019 Local author James Diamond returns to share postcard pictures from his own collection of Edwardian and Victorian Walthamstow and of the stories they tell. Walthamstow Historical Society meets at St…
Past Events Archive Puddings, Poinsettias and pantomime 1 Jan 201918 Jan 2020 Details of all Joanna's Walthamstow walks can be found here A Christmas walk in the vicinity of Walthamstow High Street with local tour guide Joanna Moncrieff In conjunction with High…
Past Events Archive My Life Growing up in Walthamstow 1 Jan 201918 Dec 2019 Mo Shanks, author of multiple volumes of autobiography, talks about her life in Walthamstow. 8pm Tuesday 10th December at Spruce Hill Baptist Church Hall, Brookscroft Road, Walthamstow E17. Waltham Forest…
Past Events Archive Chingford in the 80s and 90s – Acorn Films talk. 1 Jan 201918 Dec 2019 at The C of E Primary School, Cambridge Road, Chingford. A Chingford Historical Society event.
Past Events Archive The Days the Beatles Came to the East End 1 Jan 201918 Dec 2019 In 1963 & 1964 Beatlemania hit The East End of London. For the teens in Leyton and Walthamstow those 3 days were full of excitement with scenes never seen before…
Past Events Archive Winter Solstice 2019 Walk 1 Jan 201918 Jan 2020 Join (for free) a walk on the day of the Winter Solstice, finishing at sunset, a ritual with pre-Christian associations reflected in today's Leyton landscape. The route follows as closely…
Past Events Archive The Victorian Vision: British Artists 1 Jan 201914 Jan 2020 'The Victorian Vision: 19th Century British Artists & How Art Changed'. From Constable and Turner to Gwen John, art went through great changes. Landscape views, the sketch and portraits became…
Past Events Archive Waltham Forest Family History Society Quiz and Social 1 Jan 201914 Jan 2020 Waltham Forest Family History Society hosts a quiz and social event on Tuesday 14th January at 8pm. Non-members welcome. Venue: Spruce Hill Baptist Church Hall, Brookscroft Road, Walthamstow E17 4JP.
Past Events Archive A Life in Ruins: archaeology talk 1 Jan 201915 Jan 2020 Archaeologist Les Capon talks about his latest year of local archaeology, which included a dig on Leyton Green Road. Leyton & Leytonstone Historical Society; visitors £2. Venue: Orient House, Leyton…
Past Events Archive Lady Zoe Hart Dyke & Lea Bridge Farm 1 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 Claire Weiss talks about her revelations researching Zoe, Lady Hart Dyke, born in Leyton, with a remarkable life. Claire will also talk about what she has discovered in her research…
Past Events Archive ‘Tottenham Outrage’ 111 years on, Guided walks. 1 Jan 201922 Mar 2020 Guided walks that retrace how two wages snatchers were chased across Tottenham Marsh through Walthamstow to Highams Park in 1909, as they tried to escape the police and a number…
Past Events Archive ‘Lightboxes and Lettering’, exhibition about East London printers. 1 Jan 201922 Mar 2020 Lightboxes and Lettering is a National Lottery funded project by Rendezvous Projects CIC, exploring the experiences of people working in the pre-digital printing industry in Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest…
Past Events Archive Zoe Hart Dyke, Leyton Silk Farmer- Tue 11th Feb 8pm 1 Jan 201916 Feb 2020 Claire Weiss tells the surprising story of Zoe Hart Dyke, Victorian Lady, Leyton Silk Farmer, and Claire's extraordinary research discoveries. Tuesday 11th February 2020 8pm at Spruce Hill Baptist Church…
Past Events Archive Layers of London, talk about the website- Thur 13th Feb 7.30pm 1 Jan 201916 Feb 2020 The Layers of London website https://www.layersoflondon.org/ is a map-based history website developed by the Institute of Historical Research. Users can access free historic maps of London and contribute stories, memories…
Past Events Archive They Took the Lead: Leyton Orient’s involvement in the Great War: talk Thur 20th Feb 7.45pm 1 Jan 201922 Mar 2020 Steve Jenkins talks about the Orient Football Club's involvement in the Great War, 7.45pm in St John's Church Hall off Leytonstone High Road beside the Matalan store. Leyton & Leytonstone…
Past Events Archive Explorers and Traders- a talk by Georgina Green Thur 27th Feb 7.45pm 1 Jan 20192 Mar 2020 Georgina Green talks about figures from Essex and the local area who made their fortunes, and that of the country, in the merchant trades. Walthamstow Historical Society meets at St…
Past Events Archive Writing up your Family History, a Workshop- Tue 10th March 8pm 1 Jan 201915 Mar 2020 Spruce Hill Baptist Church Hall, Brookscroft Road, Walthamstow E17 4JP. Waltham Forest Family History Society, non-members welcome.
Past Events Archive Cancelled: Baby Farming- talk Wed 18th March 7.45pm 1 Jan 201921 Mar 2020 Mark Carroll, Secretary of Waltham Forest Family History Society, had hoped to give a talk, but for over-riding family reasons is unable to do so.
Past Events Archive cancelled: The Changing Face of North Chingford, Talk – 19th March 8.15pm 1 Jan 201921 Mar 2020 Chingford Historical Society was to have hosted a talk by Gary Stone about the Changing Face of North Chingford - from Buildings to Bakers. At Chingford Church of England School,…
