June 2023 Walking Tour: From Pimp Hall to Ale House Field. Sat 3 June at 11am. 31 Jan 201912 May 2023 In 1897 the Medical Officer of Health reported that Chingford was ‘cut off, as it were, to a great extent from the rest of the world’.* It is obviously not…
Past Events Archive Walking Tour: Walthamstow High Street. Saturdays 15th/29th October at 10am 1 Jan 20192 Nov 2022 Join qualified tour guide Joanna Moncrieff on a walk seeking out the history of Walthamstow’s famous High Street. Originally called Marsh Street, as it led to the marshes, by the…
Regular Events Walking Tour: From Fields & the Forest to Royals & the Railway. 1 Jan 20196 Oct 2022 Explore Chingford's history from forest village to London suburb and meet an unexpected cast of characters along the way. This walk is almost on the 140th anniversary of Queen Victoria…
Past Events Archive Circular walking tour from St Peter-in-the-Forest. 1 Jan 20196 Oct 2021 A guided historical walk exploring Upper Walthamstow with qualified tour guide Joanna Moncrieff About this Event This 90 minute circular walk from St Peter-in-the-Forest church will explore the fascinating history…
Regular Events Virtual Tour: From Fields and the Forest to Royals and the Railway 1 Jan 20198 Mar 2021 Explore Chingford’s history from forest village to London suburb and meet an unexpected cast of characters along the way. Chingford on the edge of Epping Forest in north-east London has…
Past Events Archive Chingford: From Fields & the Forest to Royals & the Railway. 1 Jan 201931 Dec 2020 Joanna has now turned this into a virtual walk. Follow her on Eventbrite to find out when she will next be 'leading' this walk. All her walks both virtual and…
Past Events Archive Walthamstow Guided Walk: From Monoux & Morris to Beer & Bacon Jam. 1 Jan 201931 Dec 2020 Joanna is working on turning this into a virtual walk. Follow her on Eventbrite to be alerted when dates are added. There’s so much more to Walthamstow than just its…
Regular Events Muslim History tour of Walthamstow 1 Jan 20194 Jun 2019 Book a Guided Tour of Walthamstow here Learn how Muslims numbering only 4,000 in the 1960s experienced life in Walthamstow. Find out how they struggled in their lives to establish…
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 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 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 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 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 ‘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…
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