I would also like to see Walthamstow Guardian added. A lot of interesting history 50s 60s and 70s. I was also features in an article late 60s but don't have a copy.

So much interest and so little pages available disappointing

A little disconcerting how little of East London papers are being made available

Poor show Bna not impressed !!!

Why not, it's history to many many families, including mine?????? Even Hitler managed to bomb the area, IT'S IMPORTANT!

Anyone know the whereabouts of Georgina Fields, please, who was resident at the Convent in the 50's? Georgina lived in Camden Town and Walthamstow London on leaving the Convent. I lost contact with her in the middle to late sixties. I am Godmother to her daughter Helen, born 1964-67. I would be very pleased to hear from anyone who was at St Mary's Residential School in the late 50's. I was known as Dorothy (Dot) Keenan. I remember Maureen Killian, Maureen Logan, Jean O'Sullivan and her sister, Teresa, Joan Mitchell, Wendy Phillips, Harriet O'Gara, Nora Hayes, her sister, the Gosling sisters, Margaret Finlay and her twin sisters, Carol Frayne and many more

Sort for more dates please

Pledge more dates !!!

Important paper please add more

Tom Hood School
Remember being there 1970-1974, English Teacher and head of year Mr. Richardson. I lived in Bulwer Court. Fond memories of the wanstead flats fair and cathall baths

My Dad, Mark Schofield went to Goodall Rd School from about 1947 - 51. He remembers having a school photo taken during this time and we would love to find a copy. If anyone can help, please let me know thanks,

My grandfather, William Buttler own a tobacconist/confectionary in Leytonstone during 1920s to 1930s. Does anyone have any memories of this, also where about in Leytonstone was it.

Leytonstone was such a lovely high road, lovely cafes, cinemas , bowling alley, but what is driving me a bit nuts is trying to find out the name of 2 shops that where there, tha first one was what is the left side of Boots the chemist now. It was a high end fashion shop and it was where I had my first Saturday job. The lady that owned it was always in a black turban and black dresses. She was very strict but was a lovely lady, and I would love to know if anyone can remember the flaming name. The second one was the first ' boutique ' shop to open in Leytonstone , it was just after ICELAND which was called Bejams before that, and next to the card shop. So if any one has any idea I would love to know. I also loved going in to Taylor's the record shop just passed the fire station, and absolutely loved a little dress shop called Tallulas tog shop, the lady and her mum would make all the dresses and I would save for ages to buy one of there gorgeous dresses. And that's what started me on my passion for clothes and making them , my first proper job was working in Carnaby st, which I loved and then years later I started making and selling my own clothes and which I still do today,:) but back in the 50/60,s Leytonstone was definitely a great place to grow up in , good memories x

We lived at 66 lancaster road
Family of 5
Went to davis lane school
Headmaster was called mr knowels! I remember he died while i was still at the school and replaced by mr windsor
Loved playing in the fields, in the morning just before school started!
Happy memories, was sad when they tore down half of lancaster, including my childhood home
Wish i was back there, when the summers were hot and we played near the flats, riding our bikes up and down the ramps under the flats

In the 1930’s to 1950.
My grandparents were mattress makers & had a small factory to the rear of the shop where they sold mattresses & bedding.
It was a family business & my mother worked with my grandmother. On sewing machines, making mattress covers. My father was foreman in the filling & finishing workshop
I was born in Epping in 1942 in my grandparents home.
We moved to the flat over the shop when I was about 6 or 7.
I went to Davis Lane school.
Around about that time, at night, there was a fire in the warehouse next to the workshop. I was carried downstairs by a policeman to safety.
I spent the rest of the night in the drapers a few shops down in a lovely cosy bed. They were so kind.

Include the 1980s editions

This paper or the Woodford times for me please

Hello, I just came across your site and what a bunch of memories came flooding back. I was born in 1952 in Pretoria Avenue, where my parents had 'rooms' in the upstairs of a lady's house. At age 2, my grandmother died and my parents moved into her council house in Priors Croft off Higham Hill where my mother grew up. At age 5, I went to school at St Andrews Road, first the infants and then the adjacent junior school. In my class was a girl called Veronica Horst. Her father was Eric Horst, mentioned in other posts for his infamous carryings on. We had the 11-plus exam in those days and I somehow passed and went on to McEntee Technical School (as it was then) on Billet road.

Throughout my school days, I remember spending summer days exploring Folly Lane (where the gypsies had their caravans, horses, dogs and the constant smell of burning rubber). We also went down to the River Lea nearby and along the 'New River' which I think must have been an overflow canal. At the bottom of the High Street was Coppermill Lane which ran into Sandy Alley... a sort of bridlepath that led between the resevoirs across the marshes and down to the River Lea again at Springfield Park. Hollow Ponds was another favourite, as was our local Lloyds Park with its tennis courts and large playing fields.

My first real job on leaving school was at the old Bowater Scott paper mills on St Andrews Road. My local pubs were the Prince of Wales virtually next to the firm, the Higham Hill Tavern and the Woodman. There were some tough old characters around back then: there were the two local gypsy families, the Smiths and the Lights, who seemed to be at loggerheads on various occasions, hard men Billy Gudgeon and Ginger Mac, who could empty a pub in a minute flat when their tempers flared and the up and coming Southgate brothers. If we went to the Chequers on the High Street, we'd see people like the Murphys or Eric Horst. I remember one night when Eric had been released from a prison term and called in at a pub on Willow Walk. The landlord refused to serve him so he jumped over the bar and helped himself to a bottle of something strong, whacked the barman and made off. I believe the police had him back in custody the same night.

I had many regular watwering holes on those days. When I changed jobs and was working up Orford Road, I used to go in the Queens Arms, Nags Head, the Castle and Windmill. The Windmill became my regular and I made good friends in the landlord Wally and his son (little Wally). I lost touch with so many friends when at age 29 I moved north to live in Leeds. Since then I've worked in some 30 different countries in my role as an engineer, but I never forget my mis-spent youth and the old days in the Stow.

Dear Sirs/Mesdames
Thanks to your superb website, I was finally contacted by a cousin of my own age, but one generation removed, from a family called PASOLA that moved from Tyneside to Walthamstow in the early 1900s. My cousin, Terry Pasola, now lives in Welwyn (his surname is derived from my Grandmother's first husband's Italian family surname).
After a long telephone conversation (Terry's call to me) we were able to establish, using common family first names, surnames and known family locations for comparison, that we are definitely related. His Grandfather was my Uncle Carlo Antonio PASOLA. My parents and I visited Terry's parents at Walthamstow in 1953, on our return from a 6-year stay in Spain via London; so that is how I knew that the Walthamstow Pasolas were members of our family. Your site has put us all back in touch. Many, many thanks; please keep up the excelent work, so that others may be put in touch too.
Yours sincerely

Hello there
I have looked at your site with interest because I was brought up in South Woodford and used to go boating on the lake near the rising sun on the High Road and swim at Whipps Cross Lido. I can find no reference to Whipps Cross Lido on the Web. I believe that it is no more. It was a maginificent pool. You had to walk through the forest to get to it. It was 100 yards long and 25 yards wide. It had a circular diving pool at one end that was 10ft deep. Along the sides wer concrete terraces for sun bathing. At the other end to the diving pool was a fountain and changing rooms. If you hae andy pictures I would be grateful to hear from you.
Regards

Please arrange for the 1980s to be uploaded