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from blog to book http www inwalthamstow co uk

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blogbook 2 c 2012 http www.inwalthamstow.co.uk

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contents 1 2010 1.1 november about walthamstow 2010-11-15 15:26 alpha business center in walthamstow 2010-11-15 15:50 rent a car car hire london 2010-11-15 16:26 william morris gallery in walthamstow 2010-11-15 16:40 vestry house museum walthamstow 2010-11-15 19:07 e17 film workshops 2010 2010-11-15 19:58 ye olde rose and crown theatre pub 2010-11-15 20:16 orthodox icons paintings 2010-11-16 10:46 web design in walthamstow 2010-11-16 14:49 forest book group 2010-11-16 16:09 christmas shopping evening 2010-11-16 16:12 diwali celebration walthamstow 2010-11-16 16:14 christmas bazaar in waltham forest 2010-11-16 16:17 ecoteams training 2010-11-16 16:20 inter faith week walthamstow 2010-11-16 16:23 ladies night wanstead hihgh school 2010-11-16 16:25 e17 designers market 2010-11-16 16:29 waltham forest energy fair 2010 2010-11-16 16:31 winter funday 2010-11-16 16:32 brownies coffee morning 2010-11-16 16:35 st edmund s christmas market 2010-11-16 16:40 chapel end savoy players a gilbert and sullivan christmas carol 2010-11-16 16:42 crafts fair this november 2010-11-16 16:44 st andrews s christmas bazaar 2010-11-16 16:52 give take remake 2010-11-16 16:54 walthamstow market 2010-11-17 15:46 c 2012 http www.inwalthamstow.co.uk 7 7 8 10 12 14 16 19 20 22 24 27 28 29 30 31 32 34 35 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 3

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blogbook contents 46 50 51 52 53 54 55 57 59 60 61 62 62 63 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 selbourne walk shopping centre 2010-11-17 15:55 waltham forest parking control 2010-11-17 16:00 the walthamstow tapestry 2010-11-17 16:05 psychologists sheppard associates 2010-11-19 14:10 hairdressers hair stylists for ladies 2010-11-19 14:33 hairdressers hair stylists for gents 2010-11-19 15:05 doctors in walthamstow 2010-11-19 16:32 clinics n.h.s in walthamstow 2010-11-19 17:06 beauty salons in walthamstow 2010-11-19 17:36 psychotherapists in walthamstow 2010-11-19 17:46 artists designers in walthamstow 2010-11-19 17:56 contact 2010-11-19 18:12 1.2 december walthamstow on street parking voucher locations 2010-12-01 18:54 kidzcafe in walthamstow 2010-12-01 18:58 christmas enterprise day 2010-12-01 19:03 construction skills training open day 2010-12-01 19:09 winter crime prevention event 2010-12-01 19:16 chingford village christmas fayre 2010-12-01 19:18 simply art and crafts leytonstone s christmas market 2010-12-01 19:23 free micro-chipping 2010-12-01 19:25 leytonstone library event 2010-12-01 19:28 cath drake creative writing workshops in walthamstow 2010-12-02 11:07 christmas market in leytonstone 2010-12-05 15:14 2 2011 2.1 january london education training college ltd 2011-01-18 16:55 walthamstow east london college 2011-01-18 17:00 leyton sixth form college 2011-01-18 17:03 college of arms 2011-01-18 17:06 walthamstow academy 2011-01-18 17:11 walthamstow blogger need a free hosted blog 2011-01-18 17:26 2.2 february lesbian gay bisexual transgender history month 2011-02-09 12:04 the ruling class by peter barnes 2011-02-13 18:13 o regen worknet outreach event 2011-02-13 18:15 4 75 76 77 78 81 82 83 83 84 85 86 c 2012 http www.inwalthamstow.co.uk

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contents blogbook 87 88 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 99 100 101 102 103 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 119 119 120 121 123 123 124 125 126 5 meet the funder-transformers training for voluntary and community organisations 2011-02-13 18:19 free training for waltham forest businesses 2011-02-27 22:50 2.3 march walthamstow e17 postcode 2011-03-01 11:19 walthamstow central post office 2011-03-01 11:25 computer training courses for over 50 2011-03-01 17:35 poetry evening with mimi khalvati walthamstow central library 2011-03-01 17:43 chingford village spring fayre 2011-03-01 17:45 announce your local business here 2011-03-01 18:44 traffic statistics 2011-03-01 20:05 advertise your services here 2011-03-01 20:23 walthamstow meditation classes 2011-03-16 15:40 east london chingford music and arts 2011-03-20 14:38 spring is sprung in walthamstow 2011-03-20 14:46 hoe street community ward forum meeting 2011-03-20 14:49 william morris community ward forum meeting 2011-03-20 14:51 waltham forest festival of theatre 2011 2011-03-20 15:13 production of bobby gould in hell and five kinds of silence 2011-03-20 15:20 the ruffian on the stair and a whore s tale 2011-03-20 15:23 and tell sad stories of the deaths of queens in chingford 2011-03-20 15:24 dancing classes in walthamstow 2011-03-20 22:38 2.4 2.5 april e17 art house picture framers and gallery 2011-04-20 17:02 may amnesty internationals 50th birthday in waltham forest 2011-05-05 13:31 websites and blogs in e17 area 2011-05-18 15:02 meet the funder event big lottery awards for all 2011-05-24 14:47 2.6 july apex arts summer social in walthamstow 2011-07-12 22:24 vestry house museum walthamstow location/access 2011-07-12 23:28 letonstone festival 2011 2011-07-13 09:19 2.7 september walthamstow international 2011-09-15 16:03 film festival winner of the audience vote the stone space art venue in leytonstone 2011-09-21 10:45 2.8 november c 2012 http www.inwalthamstow.co.uk

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blogbook free funding seminar contents for women s organisations in waltham forest 2011-11-06 15:37 127 129 130 131 132 133 so you like cakes handmade cakes 2011-11-08 17:49 chingford village xmas fayre 2011 2011-11-15 19:13 2.9 december walthamstow christmas bazaar 2011-12-10 15:54 3 2012 3.1 january live painting this weekend with martine charalambou 2012-01-05 14:12 jam session with nick smalley at cricket club 2012-01-09 15:09 wood street art competition £200 cash prize 2012-01-09 17:12 new site category adult events 2012-01-09 18:26 fetish club night at stiletto walthamstow 2012-01-09 20:44 the game of living at the rose and crown walthamstow 2012-01-12 10:59 walthamstow freecycle network give/take stuff the right way 2012-01-13 12:38 133 134 135 136 138 140 142 143 6 c 2012 http www.inwalthamstow.co.uk

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chapter 1 2010 1.1 november c 2012 http www.inwalthamstow.co.uk 7

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blogbook 1.1 november about walthamstow 2010-11-15 15:26 walthamstow is a district of northeast london england located in the london borough of waltham forest it is situated 6.4 miles 10.3 km north-east of charing cross the area is identified in the london plan as one of 35 major centres in greater london walthamstow is bordered to the north by chingford south by leyton and leytonstone east by the southern reaches of epping forest at woodford and west by tottenham and the river lea valley leyton high road hoe street chingford road chingford mount passing south-north through walthamstow and its neighbouring towns form part of an ancient route from london to waltham abbey walthamstow is recorded circa 1075 as wilcumestowe the place of welcome and in the domesday book of 1086 as wilcumestou king john visited shern hall shernhall street in 1213 the building survived until 1896 at one point walthamstow was just a culmination of five small villages and affairs were discussed at vestry house acting as the first town hall in 1870 it had grown to the size of a small suburb and a town hall was built in orford road from which affairs of the village were run which now takes place in forest road since 1941 until the 19th century it was largely rural with a small village centre now walthamstow village see below and a number of large estates the main route through the district was the aforementioned hoe street additionally there were various smaller lanes crossing the town the road now known as forest road was originally named clay street further south the high street was named marsh street and led from the original settlement out to the marshes shernhall street is an ancient route as is wood street to the east with the advent of the railways and the ensuing suburbanisation in the late 19th century walthamstow experienced a large growth in population and speculative building from 1894 walthamstow was an urban district and from 1926 a municipal borough in essex in 1931 the population of the borough covering an area of 4,342 acres 17.57 km2 peaked at 132,972 in 1965 the borough was abolished and its former area merged with that of the municipal borough of chingford and the municipal borough of leyton to form the london borough of waltham forest in greater london other places in east london formerly of the county of essex such as ilford and romford were placed into london boroughs along with walthamstow the postal codes for those districts failed to change however the high street is dominated by walthamstow market which began in 1885 and occupies all but the last 100 metres of the street it is reputed to be a mile long but in fact measures approximately one kilometre the market is open five days a week not sunday or monday and there is currently a sunday farmers market the street is lined with shops a selection of high-street chains but also many independent small shops specialising in food fabrics household goods etc as well as cafés the overall tone is downmarket and unique there are two patches of new-ish development at sainsburys and the mall selborne walk covered shopping centre both of which have large multi-storey car parks the historic central library on the high street was modernised and expanded in 2006 2007 although there were claims that this was at the expense of book holdings according to the waltham forest guardian almost a quarter of a million books have gone missing from waltham forest libraries amid claims they have been burned or pulped and the borough s library stock fell by 60 over the two previous years at the same time a large plot at the corner of high street and hoe street was set for substantial redevelopment as a retail space this site previously contained the town s central post office and a shopping arcade originally built in the 1960s plans for the redevelopment of this site fell through in 2005 it is now just a pedestrianised area with benches 8 c 2012 http www.inwalthamstow.co.uk

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1.1 november blogbook walthamstow central is the main town centre and includes selborne road and the high street walthamstow village conservation area is a peaceful and attractive district to the east of what has become the commercial centre of walthamstow the area is roughly defined as being south of church hill west of shernhall street north of grove road and east of hoe street orford road is the main route through the district though even this is a quiet thoroughfare by the standards of london the village has a small selection of specialist shops pubs and restaurants and house prices tend to be higher in the streets of this neighbourhood it was voted best urban village in london by time out magazine in 2004 upper walthamstow is to the east of walthamstow village the area s main thoroughfare is wood street which has a good selection of shops and local businesses and is served by railway with a station on the liverpool street to chingford line walthamstow has a wide variety of housing stock but the vast majority of residential property was built in the early 20th century from coppermill lane in the west next to the marshes to wood street in the east there are scores of edwardian and 1920s terraced streets the area along markhouse road and st james street has many examples of warner properties these were developed as affordable housing for the working classses in the early part of the 20th century bombing raids in world war ii and urban redevelopment projects in the 1960s and 1970s have left areas with more modern housing mostly in the shape of low-rise concrete blocks the northern continuation of markhouse road is st james s street to which blackhorse road follows served by both underground and railway stations which in turn becomes blackhorse lane this is bound on its western side by industrial units and warehouses the london borough of waltham forest has proposed developing the area around blackhorse road station to become a gateway to the town highams park and hale end though both in the e4 postcode are historically part of walthamstow although bounded by the marshes to the west and parts of epping forest to the east there is little open space in the actual town there were originally two commons in the town church common adjacent to st mary s church in walthamstow village and markhouse common located off markhouse lane now markhouse road and what is now the eastern end of queens road both open spaces were lost in the 19th century when the land was sold to property developers [wikipedia c 2012 http www.inwalthamstow.co.uk 9

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blogbook 1.1 november alpha business center in walthamstow 2010-11-15 15:50 alpha business centre walthamstow 60 south grove walthamstow e17 7nx opening hours monday-friday 7am-7pm saturday 9am-1pm office and workshop units arranged around a central courtyard alpha business centre is located on south grove just 600 metres to the west of the selbourne walk shopping centre the main retail destination of the area walthamstow queens road and st james street mainline railway stations are also situated 600 metres away to the east and west respectively walthamstow central station victoria and mainline is a little further to the east the close proximity of the north circular a406 provides easy road access throughout london and to the m11 motorway whereas numerous bus routes enhance the area s reachability via public transport flexible workspace for all businesses workspace group is the largest provider of office studio and small unit light industrial space to let in london and the south east with many years of experience the group has created working environments to suit the needs of small and medium sized enterprises we provide space for a wide range of businesses from it to interior design wine merchants to web masters and from catering to contemporary art 10 c 2012 http www.inwalthamstow.co.uk

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1.1 november blogbook alpha business centre provides offices and studio space ranging in size from 200 sq ft 18.5 sq m to 900 sq ft 83.6 sq m facilities services · flexible lease terms · all mains services · professional management team · conference meeting rooms · fully staffed reception · bureau facilities · 24 hour access · on-site parking by arrangement · cctv · café · evening and weekend security for further information or to arrange a viewing please telephone /mail · 020 7377 1154 · info@workspacegroup.co.uk c 2012 http www.inwalthamstow.co.uk 11

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blogbook 1.1 november rent a car car hire london 2010-11-15 16:26 enterprise rent-a-car · walthamstow · units 1a-1c billet works · london e17 5dt · tel 0208-5232500 enterprise rent-a-car is your local car van hire company providing daily and weekend car hire for private or business use we offer a wide range of rental cars and vehicles including small hatchbacks executive saloons mpvs and commercial vehicles with our free pick up service it s easy to hire a car from one of our many rental locations throughout the uk and with one-way and airport rentals available enterprise rent-a-car provides a simple cost effective solution to your car hire needs areas serviced walthamstow upper walthamstow south woodford wansted chingford chingford mount chingford south chingford hatch sewardstone leytonstone higham hill sixt rent-a-car · walthamstow · 155 chingford road · e17 4pn london · tel +44-20-85311123 sixt at london walthamstow extremely cheap easy and comfortable car hire booking sixt walthamstow is managed by vasantha who has worked in car and van hire for a number of years vasantha and his team will be happy to help with any queries or questions that you have when you rent 12 c 2012 http www.inwalthamstow.co.uk

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1.1 november with us blogbook for a limited period sixt walthamstow are offering to rent a car up to a ford focus size for just £19 per day minimum hire of 7 days this offer is only available at the branch lea valley fairrent minibus hire/rental · chingford · 3 lea valley road · e4 7px · tel 020 8524 0011 lea valley fairrent are a family run self drive van and car hire business established in 1985 located in north east london with branches in chingford and enfield we cover all of north east london essex and hertfordshire including chingford enfield north east london walthamstow woodford barnet for our car van minibus and 7 seater mpv hire rental we provide a friendly reliable and flexible service and we are very adaptable to the needs of individual customers we stock a large selection of quality vehicles at very competitive prices 10 discount for nhs police fireservice civil servants and armed forces c 2012 http www.inwalthamstow.co.uk 13

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blogbook 1.1 november william morris gallery in walthamstow 2010-11-15 16:40 the william morris gallery is the only public gallery devoted to william morris designer craftsman writer socialist and conservationist and displays an internationally important collection illustrating his life achievements and influence william morris was born in walthamstow in 1834 the gallery is delightfully housed in the 18th century water house morris family home from 1848 to 1856 and set in lloyd park in walthamstow the william morris gallery is closed for redevelopment until july 2012 it is being transformed into a world-class cultural destination where people of all ages will enjoy and be inspired by the life work and extraordinary influence of william morris the gallery is delightfully housed in the 18th century water house a substantial georgian dwelling and morris family home from 1848 to 1856 and set in lloyd park in walthamstow the gallery which was opened by prime minister clement attlee in 1950 is the only public gallery devoted to england s best-known and most versatile designer the grounds of the william morris gallery now attractively laid out as lloyd park were once the extensive gardens of water house and include the original moated water-garden where morris and his brothers and sisters played as youngsters to commemorate the 1996 centenary of morris s death trees featured in his poem tapestry trees have been specially planted to form a tree-trail in the park permanent exhibitions woven and printed fabrics rugs carpets wallpapers furniture painted tiles stained glass and books are displayed along side morris satchel and coffee cup which provide a more personal glimpse into his busy life morris designs are shown with those of burne-jones rossetti and webb who worked together in the firm of morris marshall faulkner &co these displays are complemented by the brangwyn gift of paintings drawings prints and ceramics by sir frank brangwyn r.a as well as works by morris followers in the arts and crafts movement 14 c 2012 http www.inwalthamstow.co.uk

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1.1 november which flourished from the 1880s to the 1920s virtual tour of the william morris gallery blogbook the william morris gallery has a visitor guide to help you get the most out of your visit view a floorplan of the gallery and highlights from our collection download the visitor guide pdf file william morris gallery lloyd park forest road walthamstow e17 4pp tel 020 8496 4390 email wmg.enquiries@walthamforest.gov.uk c 2012 http www.inwalthamstow.co.uk 15

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