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The Princess Alice - gone, but not forgotten
So, the ground floor of one of Forest Gate's most recognisable buildings has finally closed as a drinking/eating establishment. Â The Princess Alice, and its supping and catering heirs, is no more, as...
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Forest Gate's listed buildings (1)
In our recent feature on what may become Forest Gate's first £2m house (here) we noted that it was "listed", by English Heritage and gave the grounds for its status.There are, in fact ten "listed"...
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Forest Gate's early transport history
As construction works begins in earnest around Forest Gate station now, and next year on the Goblin line, to facilitate the next stage in the area's transport story, and future development, it seems...
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Forest Gate's listed buildings (2)
This is the second of two articles featuring nine of Forest Gate's English Heritage Listed buildings. The first appeared last week (see immediately below), and can provide an introduction to this, thus...
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Origins of formal education in Forest Gate
Although various charity schools were established in England before the nineteenth century, the major push towards providing formal schooling, particularly for middle and working class children, came...
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Boxing's memory lane: Walker vs. Mildenberger fight - March 1967
We have recently acquired a piece of boxing memorabilia with sturdy Forest Gate roots. It is a copy of the programme for what was probably local boxer Billy Walker's biggest fight, when he met Karl...
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George Tutill: Forest Gate resident and Trade Union banner manufacturer
In our recent article on Forest Gate's listed buildings we mentioned (here) that the Red House, in Upton Lane, was, for a while, home to Mr Tutill, a prominent trade union banner manufacturer.Early...
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Forest Gate's little gem
Over 95% of the contents of this site - indeed what is known about Forest Gate - relates to developments over the last 150 years. This article features a much older piece of local history.While sewers...
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From famine to feast in E7
It is less than two years since we published a 24-hour Forest Gate food trail (see here), and we struggled to find half a dozen decent places to eat in the area. That number of additional outlets has...
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Suffragette Suburbs - an International Women's Day nod at our neighbours
Last year, to commemorate International Women's Day, we featured the story of Minnie Baldock, the organiser of Forest Gate's Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) - popularly known as The...
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Forest Gate's unique place in the history of witchcraft
Our last post featured some heroic local women's fight for the vote, this one looks at a rather less public spirited local woman.It is the case of 72 year old Forest Gate resident, Jane Rebecca Yorke,...
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39a - 49a Woodgrange Road- regeneration plans
This short post is a summary of the regeneration plans currently out for consultation concerning 39a - 49a Woodgrange Road (between Gregg's and Barry's) - see map and photo for location.In the apparent...
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He's one of our own - Ronnie Lane
This post is published to celebrate what would have been Ronnie Lane's 70th birthday - on 1 April.Forest Gate youngster, Ronnie Lane's life (1 April 1946 - 4 June 1997) was perhaps best summed up by...
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The street where you live (4) - Dames Road
Local Wanstead Flats' historians Mark Gorman and Peter Williams, continue our occasional series, The Street Where You Live with a glance at Dames Road, running from the junction of Woodgrange/Woodford...
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Three, not out
This post marks the third anniversary of the blog, so a retrospective look at the "then" of Forest Gate life in 2013, compared to the "now", seems in order.But first, what of the posts published to...
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Underneath the Arches - Sub- trainian Forest Gate!
 We have covered the history and route of the Gospel Oak to Barking over-ground rail line(GOBLIN)  through Forest Gate on this site before (here). It was constructed amid much controversy and protest...
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Public monuments in Forest Gate
This is the first of two articles looking at monuments and public art in Forest Gate. There is an unexpected, unifying, theme running through almost all of them.This article examines the...
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Public art in Forest Gate
This post should be read in conjunction with the immediately previous one, on monuments in Forest Gate, that looked at; The Gurney Memorial in Stratford, the cairn in West Ham Park, The Joseph Fry...
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The story of St Angela's school
Forest Gate's growing mid-nineteenth century population was added to by an influx of Irish economic refugees, fleeing the potato famine (see here for examples).The then Strafford Catholic priest, James...
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The street where you live (5): Earlham Grove
This is the fifth in an occasional series of articles by Forest Gate resident, Peter Williams, who specialises in Newham housing, maps and local history. In each he looks, in detail, at the history of...
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