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The George PH, Wanstead
Facing the viewer is the George Public House, which I believe still exists; behind is Wanstead underground station and an open area of grassland leading to Redbridge Lane and my then school, Wanstead County High. The High Street is facing us and leads to Snaresbrook, also with its underground station and also a magistrates court!
Contributed by Joan McDonough
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The George PH, Wanstead
Facing the viewer is the George Public House, which I believe still exists; behind is Wanstead underground station and an open area of grassland leading to Redbridge Lane and my then school, Wanstead County High. The High Street is facing us and leads to Snaresbrook, also with its underground station and also a magistrates court!
A memory of Wanstead contributed by Joan McDonough
Saturday Morning Pictures, Ludlows and Williams Grocery Shop
Leytonstone was a great place to live back in the 50s and 60s. People used to come from far and wide for the wonderful shops. Bearmans was a lovely dapartment store, which also boasted a seperate furniture store, at the top end of the High Road. The Co-op sold an array of goods, from fashion-household goods-cosmetics. We had several shoe shops..Bata....Freeman, Hardy and Willis.... True Form.... Dolcis.... Lilly and Skinner and Russell and Bromley.
Leytonstone also boasted 4 cinemas, within 1 mile - The Rialto, The Rex, The State and The Century, which all showed different feature films.
In Church Lane there was Ludlows the bakers who baked wonderful jam doughnuts, cottage loaves...crusty rolls....farmhouse loaves... and superb Eccles and Banbury ...read more here
A memory of Leytonstone contributed by Carol Warn
The flats, Bearmans, Lyons Cafe and Pie & Mash
I often think how lucky we post-war Leytonstone kids were to be born in the East End of London, yet have the whole of Wanstead park, the flats and what we called the forest at the end of our street, Browning Road, to get lost in. The mysterious Quakers Meeting house that was surrounded by the massive and famous 'Red Wall' where we all scratched our names in the soft red bricks and collected prized conkers nearby. In those days Bearmans, the local department store, seemed to us to be the biggest and best store in the world, perhaps comparable only to Harrods! Looking back though it was not that big at all by today's standards. Lyons corner house was a ...read more here
A memory of Leytonstone contributed by Ray Murray
Extracts From Wanstead & London books
There has probably been a
formal market at Kingston
since at least Saxon times;
a series of charters have
been granted by royalty
since the 13th century,
giving it official status. The
charter granted by King
Charles I gave Kingston
the right to ban any other
market within seven
miles; this right has been
used in recent times to
stop markets operating in
Putney, a little over four
miles away. The Market
Hall was opened in 1840.
An extract from from"Kingston upon Thames Photographic Memories".
The town of Kingston
was awarded County
Town status in 1893,
which it retained even
after becoming a London
Borough in 1964. However,
the County Town status
has now gone to Woking,
and any remaining
County Council staff will
be relocated across the
county by 2007. Behind the
Coronation Stone (centre)
are the Municipal Offices,
which were replaced by
the Guildhall in 1935.
As this is a market town,
the town centre has a
remarkable number of
hotels and hostelries; on
the right is the Griffin
Hotel, established in the
16th century, an important
posting house that closed
in 1986 and was converted
into shops. A proud early
motorist stands outside the
Assembly Rooms (right).
An extract from from"Kingston upon Thames Photographic Memories".
The few waterside
industries of Kingston were
based off the High Street
with their wharves backing
onto the Thames. Hide’s
department store has an
advertising hoarding on
the riverfront (left)
proclaiming their fabrics
and furnishings. The large
roof beyond the Hides
hoarding is that of the
Odeon cinema in the
High Street, which was
demolished in 1988.
An extract from from"Kingston upon Thames Photographic Memories".
On the left are the four rollers which allow
smaller craft to negotiate the weir. The
passengers had to disembark and push
and pull the punt or canoe over the rollers
instead of going through the lock - that
was more for larger craft, such as the small
steam pinnace on the right.
An extract from from"Kingston upon Thames Photographic Memories".
The photograph was taken from Eel Pie Island, facing towards the parish church and C Shore’s
boathouse and Island Ferry. C Hammertons, who continued operating the ferry and hiring out
canoes, punts and dinghies, took over Shore’s in 1926.
An extract from from"Kingston upon Thames Photographic Memories".