March 2023 Walking Tour: From Pimp Hall to Ale House Field Sat 18th March at 2pm 31 Jan 201911 Mar 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 Chingford Newsreels 1950s-1990s. hosted by Gary Stone. Thu 9th December at 7.30pm 1 Jan 201922 Dec 2021 at The C of E Primary School, Cambridge Road, Chingford and online via Zoom. We will be back at our pre-pandemic meeting venue which is the C of E Primary School, Cambridge…
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…
Regular Events Engine Run day at Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum- Last Sunday of every month. 1 Jan 201917 Jan 2020 On the last Sunday of each month the Marshall and Loughborough steam engines are run on compressed air. The engines will run at 12:00 PM and 2:00 PM on the…
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…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ‘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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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