Wanstead and Snaresbrook
Blake Hall Road
Temple with ionic portico
at the back from Wanstead House
Buckingham Road
One of a group of county
related names
Cambridge Park
Our Lady Of Lourdes R.C.. 1927-8 by Geoffrey
Raymond of Scales & Raymond, the aisles completed 1934 and 1940.
Methodist Church. Built as a Methodist Free Church by Frederick Boreham, 1875, small
but elaborate.
Hall
Eastern Avenue
Wanstead Station.
14th December 1947. Between Woodford and Redbridge on the
Central Line. Sited opposite George Green. A good design of 1937-8 by Charles
Holden completed after the war with the original intentions, crisp box-like
exterior faced with grey tiles.
Jubilee Fountain on the corner
The Elms demolished for the road, Central Line rus beneath it
Gloucester Road
One of a group of county
related names
Grove Park
Grove Park and The Avenue, laid out in 1889 by Pons, Sulman & Co
Wanstead Grove, big house, now demolished stood near the
junction of the two roads. It was built by Sir Francis Dashwood, and rebuilt in
1822. Extensive formal grounds included a long canal from
Pond. Remnant
survival of Wanstead Grove.
2 a house of
1890 plaque commemorating the astronomer
royal, James Bradley 1762, whose research was encouraged by his uncle, rector
of Wanstead. Bradley set up his telescope in a house near here.
Grosvenor Road
The Shrubbery is
a group of flats, around a cedar tree, c. 1930 Cockett, Henderson & Gillow
for North East London Properties Co.
Hereford Road
Hermon Hill
Holy Trinity1886-7 by James Fowler.
Temporary iron church remains acquired from St Michael, Camden Town and erected in 1882.
Hall 1907,
Hermon Hill Methodist Church. 1876.
High Street
6-8 a pair of
rural cottages at right angles to the street, .
27 Hadley House local
Snaresbrook
Station . 22nd
August 1856. Between Leytonstone and South Woodford on the Central Line. Built
in 1856 by the Eastern Counties Railway on the Loughton Railway. The original
station house of 1856 survives and the canopy spandrels on the up side platform
have a remarkable resemblance to locomotive wheels. In 1893 the station was
enlarged with a bay platform and partly rebuilt and some buildings from this period survive and another
entrance added in 1903. In 1929 the name was changed to ‘Snaresbrook for Wanstead’. In 1947 it became part of the Central Line
and was rebuilt with a new ticket hall on the west side. It was then renamed ‘Snaresbrook’. Some buildings and features of this period
survive.
159 George. pub, opposite Wanstead Station, has a marble porch, and partly
frosted windows. There are a number of distinct drinking areas, one just by the main door even has a library. This pub
is a celebration for all Georges - many famous Georges abound, not to forget St
George. On the site of an 18th inn, rebuilt 1904 by A.J. Bywater, as a
plaque explains. Tablet dated 1752, and
portrait medallion of George III. It was
the ‘George and Dragon’
from 1716 but rebuilt in 1962 – there is an inscription about a cherry pie
The Limes was opposite the George, demolished.
Green - Epping Forest land at crossroads with Hollybush Hill
Hollybush Hill
Drinking Fountain. At the junction with Wanstead High Street. 1872 with shingled
spirelet for the 1897 Jubilee two water taps and a trough.
Leicester Road
New Wanstead
Weavers
Almshouses. Built 1857 by Joseph Jennings. Simple two-storey ranges with a
centrepiece plus the weavers’ arms with their motto 'weave truth with trust',
and reset plaques of 1824 and 1851. The buildings replaced foundations at Shoreditch of 1670 and Spitalfields
1729. They were threatened with
demolition in the 1970s, and instead, interiors were remodelled by EG. Dobson
and H.M. Grellier & Son. who added a parallel range behind, with a central
community room.
Nightingale Lane
Nightingale
79 Duke of Edinburgh. pub in the wilds of outer London. The
wall panelling creates the impression of an older pub. Shove-ha'penny table
United Reformed Church. 1864-7, built for Congregationalist 19th Free Church in
Wanstead. It made use of stuff from St Luke, Kings Cross, a Gothic church demolished for St Pancras station an re-erected her.
Nutter Lane:
Applegarth 1710. Home of
Nutter family
Rutland Road
One of a group of county
related names
Snaresbrook
'Place by the brook in or near which traps were set’.
Recorded thus in 1599 and on the OS map of 1805. From Middle English broke 'brook' with an
uncertain first element, possibly
a surname or Middle English snare 'a snare or trap for catching wild animals
and birds'. The small stream here flowed into the River Roding; and there is
still a piece of water at Snaresbrook known as Eagle Pond from the Eagle Inn
which was earlier Snares pond on Rocque's map. On this same map the brook
itself is marked as Sayesbrook, perhaps an alternative name and clearly to be
associated with a tenement called Sayes 1383 and with the 19th-century field
names Great & little Seds. All these would seem to derive from a different
Middle English name Say recorded in nearby Essex parishes from the 13th
century. It is
an old part of Wanstead.
Spratt Green was then Christ Church Green bought by Local Board as a park in 1860. The parochial school had been built here in 1790..
Christ church. chapel of ease, built 1869 by the rector of Wanstead, Rev. W.P. Wigram, brother of the Bishop of Rochester, whose diocese included this area at the time and were the sons of the shipbuilder. Hidden near the centre of the green
Spratt Hall Road
Library by D.
Meyer and B. Ettridge of Redbridge Architect's Dept. Single storey. .
Police Station of
1886 by John Butler, standing out here because of its brick
The Avenue
Grove Park and The Avenue, laid out in 1889 with
comfortably large houses by Pons, Sulman & co
14 Temple House.
Garden temple 1730-40. timber Ionic portico which originally looked
over the canal. Possibly 1730s by the then owner, Matthew Wymondesold, who
extended the gardens.
Wanstead
'Place by a lump or hillock' . ‘Wcenstede’ c.1050, ‘Wenstede’ 1066,
‘Wenesteda' 1086. Possibly 'place by a tumour-shaped mound', from Old English
'wen’, alternatively place where
wagons are kept' if the first element is rather Old English warn 'wagon'.
Wanstead High Street
Mall Housed - one of several houses set along the road in the 18th. Sheriden House - playwright is said to have lived here until 1793.
17th and
eighteenth century houses, attesting to the prosperity of Wanstead, 1962
Manor House is now West Essex Conservative Club,
early 18th. Twice-life-size bronze of
Churchill in front, presented by French and Italian admirers and inscribed
‘giant of England'. It emerges from a stone plinth brought from
old Waterloo Bridge. The house is 18th though upper parts were rebuilt.
Cuckfield Hotel no.31 Edwardian skylight and windows with ‘Wenlock’ on them
50, a new block by PCKO Architects, 2002-3, set back from the street, with
a pool in the forecourt.
Wanstead Place
Church Hall, c.1970.
The former Town Hall, now a Health Clinic, was built as the local Board of Works in 1881
by its surveyor, J. T. Bressey. Grey brick.
Red Cross Centre is the former Fire Station. With doors for two engines, the
fire hose tower looking like a chimney. This is on the site of Spratt Hall
Warwick Road
One of a group of county
related names
Joseph Barratt junior
school, 1946 called Warwick and secondary modern
11 Medium-sized
cottage style garden with Large pond.
24 Small garden
divided into rooms.
Wellesley Road:
Telephone exchange 1902
National Telephone Co GPO 1912
Wellington Road:
Baptist Church iron church
in 1894 1904 vestry etc.
Wanstead Lake House. Birthplace of poet Tom Hood, son of the more famous poet. Lived there 1732-35.
Woodbine Place
Tree House Nursery School school of 1912 by Whitmore, Essex County Architect, now. Single
storey;
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