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Street guide to E7 food hygiene ratings - 2018
This is our 2018 summary of the food ratings awarded to almost 200 Forest Gate food retailers, restaurants and hotels, by Newham Council's inspectorate - working to Food Safety Agency guidelines. This...
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Happy birthday, Newham Bookshop!
The familiar frontage - it is what it says on the fascia boardToday is World Book Day, and the beginning of the month in which Newham Bookshop - managed by Forest Gate stalwart, Vivian Archer -...
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Minnie Baldock's active suffragette life in letters and photos
This article is published on International Women's Day, one hundred years after women first achieved the parliamentary vote in Britain. It brings together a small collection of photos and papers, held...
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Redevelopment proposals for Woodgrange Methodist Church
The congregation and pastors of Woodgrange Methodist church, together with the national hierarchy of the Methodist tradition have been working, for about 5 years, on redevelopment plans for the site....
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Uncle Joe knew where you lived!
A timely post, as the media is awash with stories of Russian spies.Newham Bookshop and the Wanstead Tap recently hosted a great evening of author John Davies talking about his recently published book,...
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The good, the bad and criminal of Forest Gate's Lettings Agents
Newham Council became the first in the country to publish a ratings scheme for residential lettings agencies, last autumn - with agents being awarded from zero to five stars, depending on their...
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Fifth anniversary round up - past and future
This week marks the fifth anniversary of the E7-NowAndThen blog, during which time we have published a little over 200 articles, on a ratio of about 1:2 - Now:Then. This article is a brief review of...
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A survivor's tale - 1941 bombing of the Princess Alice
One of the delights of running this website is that sometimes articles can prompt replies and memories that can add colour and flavour to our understanding of the past.One such correspondence was...
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Tollgate or not Tollgate?
The origins of our district's name are fairly obvious and well known - the details, less so. In this article we attempt to piece together sometimes conflicting historic accounts to provide a likely,...
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William Edward Wright - Forest Gate Edwardian photographer
We were contacted a while ago by Chris Roach, the Great Granddaughter of prominent Victorian and Edwardian Forest Gate photographer, William Edward Wright. Together, we have put together this article...
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The Magpie Project
E7-NowAndThen asked Jane Williams of a recently established local charity aimed at supporting young mums in desperate straits to tell us a little of the charity's background and record. It has achieved...
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Barry's Meat Market: as one door closes, two open!
Saturday 26 May will see Barry's Meat Market, the mainstay of Woodgrange Road's retail offer, close its doors for the last time - but other portals are opening soon!As a thank you present to his loyal...
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Racism in Forest Gate in the 1970s and 1980s Part 1 - the scene is set, as...
The demonstrations outside Forest Gate police station in June 2017 protesting about the death of Edson da Costa, following police action, brought back memories of similar demonstrations over thirty...
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Racism in Forest Gate in the 1970s and 1980s Part 2 - the fight back begins
This is the second part of a post on racism in Forest Gate in the 1970's and 1980's - see the previous article for part one.Gurdip Singh Chagger was murdered in Southall on 4 June 1976. A week later a...
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Archibald Cameron Corbett - the man and his houses -synopsis of film
We have written extensively before about Forest Gate's Woodgrange estate and the builder behind it, Archibald Cameron Corbett (see here, here and here). Corbett was one of the most prolific house...
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NHS at 70 (1): History of the Forest Gate Maternity Hospital
This is the first of two articles celebrating the 70th birthday of the NHS, 5 July 2018 - recording the history of its largest local presence. The second article - to follow - will examine the state of...
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NHS at 70 (2) - current state of services in E7
In 2016 we published details of GP surgeries in E7, and how they were rated by their patients (see here). The article was based on the information supplied by the NHS's national website: NHS...
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Bonallack's - coach-builders of Forest Gate
This site has previously featured manufacturing based in Forest Gate, notably bicycles and the many workshops in the area a hundred years ago. This article features a local company Bonallack’s that...
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Kenney Jones in E7 - Now and Then!
Kenney Jones, one- time drummer of The Small Faces, The Faces and The Who, last week returned to his east end roots and performed at the WansteadTap, where he discussed his autobiography, Let The Good...
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“Save the Forest!” Forest Gate and the campaign for Epping Forest
by local historian, Mark Gorman - celebrating the 140th anniversary of the Epping Forest Act and highlighting the role of ordinary east Londoners in rescuing the forest from destruction.140 years ago...
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