It vanished piecemeal nearly a hundred years ago. The “dwellings” were considered a health hazard by the 1930s. But before the days of building controls, a haphazard development of up to a hundred homes had grown up – Lea Bridge Gardens. Or the Bungalow Town. These were the unofficial homes of the poor. And because …
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Sep 23
St Barnabas – a church surrounded?
Three years ago, when I first wrote about the Iron Church, now known as the Stafford Hall, the unpretentious structure that served its community before the present St Barnabas Church, Walthamstow was built, the future of church, vicarage, iron church and church hall seemed moderately uncontentious. Life was hard for everyone in the aftermath of …
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Sep 01
Rose Lok’s Tale: silk thread and subversion
Rose Lok lived to be a very old lady. For a Londoner born in the reign of Henry VIII, to attain the age of eighty-six was in itself an extraordinary achievement. And Rose lived an extraordinary life. She grew up in a house off Cheapside in the heart of Tudor London, one of nineteen children …
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