January 2020 'Lightboxes and Lettering', exhibition about East London printers. 17th Jan – 29th Mar. 1 Feb 201921 Jan 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…
February 2020 They Took the Lead: Leyton Orient's involvement in the Great War: talk Thur 20th Feb 7.45pm 1 Feb 201918 Feb 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…
February 2020 Explorers and Traders- a talk by Georgina Green Thur 27th Feb 7.45pm 1 Feb 201910 Oct 2019 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…
March 2020 Baby Farming- talk Wed 18th March 7.45pm 1 Feb 20199 Feb 2020 Mark Carroll, Secretary of Waltham Forest Family History Society, reveals another aspect of our past Leyton & Leytonstone Historical Society. St John's Hall off High Road, Leytonstone, opposite the entrance…
March 2020 Essex and East London in the Eighteenth Century- talk Thur 26th March 7.45pm 1 Feb 201910 Oct 2019 Derek Morris, the leading researcher on London's riverside communities considers links between those and its wider hinterland. Walthamstow Historical Society meets at St Gabriel's Church, Havant Road, Walthamstow, London E17…
April 2020 Inventory, what’s the story? talk Wed 15th April 7.45pm 1 Feb 201917 Jan 2020 Kathleen Partington, Barbara Durack and Lesley Drake talk about their work cataloguing resources held by St Mary's Parish Church, Leyton. Leyton & Leytonstone Historical Society; visitors £2. St John's Hall…
May 2020 Walthamstow History Walk 'What's Left of medieval Walthamstow?' Wed 13th May 10.30am 1 Feb 201917 Jan 2020 Join Walthamstow Historical Society for a walk from outside Vestry House Museum E17 9NH
May 2020 Walthamstow History Walk 'What's Left of medieval Walthamstow?' Sun 17th May 2pm 1 Feb 201917 Jan 2020 Join Walthamstow Historical Society for a walk from outside Vestry House Museum E17 9NH
May 2020 The Battle of Cable Street- a talk Thur 21st May 7.45pm 1 Feb 201910 Oct 2019 Jef Page describes the events of Sunday 4 October 1936 when Eastenders turned on Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists and prevented them from parading through their streets. Walthamstow Historical…
June 2020 Walthamstow History Walk 'Ships, Scandal & Prosperity' Wed 10th June 10.30am 31 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 Join Walthamstow Historical Society for a walk from outside St Mary's Walthamstow E17 9RJ.
June 2020 Walthamstow History Walk 'Ships, Scandal & Prosperity' Sun 14th June 2pm 31 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 Join Walthamstow Historical Society for a walk from outside St Mary's Walthamstow E17 9RJ.
June 2020 Walthamstow History Walk 'Little Bethnal Green' Wed 19th Aug 10.30am 31 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 Join Walthamstow Historical Society for a walk from outside St James Street Station, Walthamstow E17 7PF.
June 2020 Walthamstow History Walk 'Little Bethnal Green' Sun 23rd Aug 2pm 31 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 Join Walthamstow Historical Society for a walk from outside St James Street Station, Walthamstow E17 7PF.
Regular Events Walking in the Footsteps of Hitchcock 1 Jan 201918 Jan 2020 Gary Lewis, brilliant enthusiast for Leytonstone's connection with Alfred Hitchcock, leads a walk at 12 noon from the entrance to St John's Church, corner of Church Lane and Leytonstone High…
Past Events Archive Hitchcock's Leytonstone 1 Jan 201917 Jan 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 201917 Jan 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 201926 Jan 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…
