Edith's Streets

  This post is not finished has not been edited or checked Post to the north Heaton Grange Post to the east Gallows Corner Post to the south Gidea Park Station Post to the west Raphael Park Broadway. Houses have gardens backing down to the former fishponds of the Gidea Hall estate. Brook Road Houses built in the 1934 'Modern Homes' exhibition.   Initiated by Raphael's son, the ambition was the same - economically built, architect-designed houses capable of challenging the speculative competitors and demonstrating the benefits of rational design - but the achievement fell short of that. The houses are closer to the homegrown modern of Crittal's Silver End than the full-blooded Modernism of Tecton. 18 by Spencely was flat-roofed with continuous glazing on the first floor and a glazed bay window Eastern Avenue Houses built in the 1934 'Modern Homes' exhibition.   Initiated by Raphael's son, the ambition was the same - economically built, architect-designed ho...

 This post is not finished has not been edited or checked Post to the east Harold Hill Straight Road Post to the west Rise Park Post to the north Bedfords Park Post to the south Gidea Park Grange Road Hilldene Primary School. Heaton Grange Named after John Heaton born in 1740 and a City Lawyer with offices in Old Burlington Street.   In 1771 he bought the Manor of Bedfords where he was to live. When Romford, Harold Wood, Common was enclosed in 1814 Heaton bought 35 acres for £2,300 but actually got more than he had paid for.   He set up a model farm there called Heaton Grange. It was a big success. Romford Council bought the farm in the 1950s and developed it for housing.

 This post is not finished has not been edited or checked Post to the north Pyrgo Post to the east Harold Hill Hilldene Post to the south Heaton Grang e Post to the west Bower Park Lower Bedfords Road Crenellated tower with stair 1816 as an eyecatcher by John?   Demolished house called Bedfords. Origin late 18th weatherboarded

      This post is not finished, had not been checked or edited Post to the north Pyrgo Wood Post to the east Noak Hill Post to the south Bedfords Park Post to the west Havering-atte-Bower Pyrgo Park Magnificent gateposts The royal estate included the area which later became Pyrgo Park , where there was another house, rebuilt as a classical villa in 1851-2 by Allason, remodelled in Italianate style by E.M. Barry and demolished in 1938.

     This post is not finished, had not been checked or edited Post to the north Tysea Hill Post to the west Havering Park Post to the east Pyrgo Park Post to the south Bower Park Broxhill Road Round House.   This is east of the church and Green. An oval building of , c.1800 was owned by a tea merchant and modelled on a tea caddy.  Owned by Pemberton, a rose grower, Alexandra Rose.  Built c. 1792 for William Sheldon, restored 1980-1. Attributed to John of St Mary Paddington. The house is on a mound, which conceals the service basement and an encircling outer passage lit by gratings in its vault.   This can be reached by a tunnel which starts close to the dairy Dairy , a tiny building with a room on the ground floor and the one on the first floor which fill a half circle. all the subdivisions are original to the central stair, with slim straight banisters, which winds to the top floor through a roof-lit oval drum with the chimnies and is concentric...

   This post is not finished, had not been checked or edited Post to the north not done Post to the east Collier Row Post to the south Romford Post to the west Raphael Park Collier Row Lane Church of the Good Shepherd 1934-5 by Newberry & Fowler.  Vicarage.  Havering Road Gobions Primary School , 1952-3, by H. Conolly, the Essex County Architect.

  This post is not finished, had not been checked or edited Post to the north Hainault Forest Whalebone Lane Post to the east Colliers Row Post to the south Marks Gate Post to the west not done Billet Road Furze House Farm .   ‘Furze’ House refers to the gorse.   1839-40 with modest later extensions.  Fields of wheat and potatoes lying at the northern apex of Barking and Dagenham are the only remaining productive farmland in the Borough and are the last remnant of an agricultural landscape, which predominated until the 1920s.   The fields slope gently down to a drainage ditch on the Redbridge boundary overlooking open countryside and producing wheat and potatoes once the dominant produce in Barking.   In the early 19th this land lay within Hainault Forest and It was only after the removal of the forest's legal protection in 1851 that the area became a farm.  Some of the forest survives in several old oak trees; five stand north of the farmhouse and two...

 This post is not finished, had not been checked or edited Post to the north not done Post to the east Collier Row Post to the south Marks Gate Post to the west Hainault Forest Hog Hill Frinton Road Stone marker for the boundary of Waltham Forest Hog Hill In 1883 50 celts found here Hog Hill House was the tied house for the Master of Hainault Forest. Coal post outside no 70 Whalebone Lane Whale bone set up for Turnpike. Outside Warren School site of Boundary stone of Hainault Forest, marker now in Valance House Turnpike Corner, site of school in Chadwell Heath built in 1857 until 1961 when demolished.   It had been used by London Co-op before that

    This post is not finished, had not been checked or edited Post to the west Chigwell Row Roding Tributory Post to the north Lambourne Brownings Farm Post to the east Hainault Forest Cabin Hill Post to the south Hainault Central GLC/Redbridge boundary Goes east to the edge of Mile Plantation where it meets the Havering boundary The GLC/Havering boundary Goes due east across the Mile Plantation and on All Saints, 1867, 13 th century style, rebuilt 1918/19,   built on forest land Hainault Hall. house  Chigwell Row Early 19 th  community on   the edge of the forest. Romford Road Maypole Pub

   This post is not finished, had not been checked or edited Post to the west Fullwell Cross & Fairlop Station Post to the north Hainault Station Post to the east Seven Kings Water Hainault Farm Post to the south Aldeborough Hatch Fairlop Named from a famous oak tree, in what was then Hainault Forest called ‘Fair Lop Tree’ in 1738. Fairlop Oak is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1805, and cut down in 1820. In spite of other colourful traditions about the origins of the name, it means ‘ lopped tree where fairs took place'; an annual fair was held under the shade of the tree in the 18th century. Fairlop Fair" founded by Daniel Day 1683-1767 a block- and pump-maker of Wapping, who owned a small estate near Hainault Forest.   When he went to receive his rents there, on the first Friday in July, he used to take a party of friends to eat bacon and beans in the shade of the Fairlop Oak.   By about 1725 this private picnic had developed into a regular fair. The block...

  This post is not finished, had not been checked or edited Post to the north Claybury Hospital site Post to the east Fulwell Cross and Fairlop Station Post to the south Barkingside Dunspring Lane The manor of Emelingbury or Emelyn was at Barkingside. the place was near Mossford Green and Gayshams.   Emelingbury lay north-west of Browning, on the higher ground at the end of Dunsprings Lane. The 'bury' suffix suggests that Emelingbury was part of the original demesne of Barking Abbey.

 This post is not finished, had not been checked or edited Post to the west Canonbury Post to the north Islington and Highbury Corner Amwell Street Running through fields from Clerkenwell to Islington. Named after the Hertfordshire village which is the source of new River. Built up around 1830.  Lloyds Dairy Cornershop and other local shops 71 Home of George Cruickshank with that nails by John Betjeman in 1973 Angel Angel . District and station named from a former coaching inn on the Great North Road called the Angel dating from the 17th century. It  marks the junction of five major roads: St John Street and Goswell Road from the south; City Road, climbing up in a long ascent from London Bridge on the east side; Pentonville Road falling westwards to Kings Cross and St Pancras, and ahead, Upper Street, on the line of the Great North Road.   Was  Hyde's Saxon estate.  Medieval shrine to Our Lady of the Oak a...