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SPOTLIGHT ON CHINGFORD: Conservation group working to preserve woods for community

A Foal member tends to a tree

1:30pm Friday 12th February 2010

A DEDICATED group of volunteers have been tidying up green spaces in Chingford for the past six years.

SPOTLIGHT ON CHINGFORD: Living history in Hunting Lodge

HOME BUILD: The Hunting Lodge at Chingford (left) which was made with a frame of English oaks (c)

12:49pm Tuesday 9th February 2010

CHINGFORD is steeped in history and perhaps its most famous reminder of the distant past is Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge.

SPOTLIGHT ON CHINGFORD: Traders' struggle through recession

Traders in Chingford Mount Road celebrate bus lane plans being scrapped

12:59pm Tuesday 9th February 2010

THE recession may be over, but it has left its mark on people and businesses across the country.

SPOTLIGHT ON CHINGFORD: Follow the Beckham trail

David Beckham

12:44pm Tuesday 9th February 2010

THE Beckham Trail was created by Waltham Forest Council in 2003 and offers fans a walk around Chingford following the early life of the football superstar.

Victorian antiquarian returns to share knowledge on Epping Forest treasures

11:09am Wednesday 3rd February 2010

AS Epping Forest District Museum prepares for a visit from beyond the grave from Victorian antiquarian William Winters, CLAIRE HACK finds out more about some of the treasures he will speak on.

HISTORY: A look back at library's past

Harrow Green Library 1960

12:41pm Thursday 21st January 2010

AS a popular library celebrates its 50th birthday, CARL BROWN takes a look at the history of the familiar landmark.

A look back at the history of Waltham Forest

2:01pm Thursday 31st December 2009

WALTHAM Forest was once a rural area, whose landscape was dominated by mansion houses and farmland.

A festive message from Leytonstone vicar Raymond Draper

Raymond Draper

11:46am Monday 14th December 2009

A Christmas Message from Raymond Draper, Vicar of St John’s Church, in Leytonstone

HISTORY: Hundred year anniversary of Osborne Judgement

Railway worker and trade unionist Walter Osborne (c) Harper Collins

1:02pm Tuesday 8th December 2009

THIS month marks the 100th anniversary of a landmark ruling named after a Walthamstow town councillor which protected union members from a compulsory political levy.

Hitler couldn’t close our school

Hitler couldn’t close our school

4:07pm Thursday 3rd December 2009

THOUSANDS of children from east London were evacuated to the countryside during the Blitz and their experiences are a key part of the narrative of the conflict. But now a teacher at Wanstead High School during the war has shared her memories of when the children returned.






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