This Sunday at 12pm and 2pm Join me in #Walthamstow to discover the history of this amazing building www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waltham-fo...
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City of Westminster and Clerkenwell & Islington Guide. Social history walks. Walthamstow & Chingford walks too. Booking details for all my public guided walks and tours are here: https://linktr.ee/joannawestminsterwalks
Wood Street #Walthamstow is full of surprises. Join me this Saturday 3 October to traverse the area known at one time as 'On the Forest' to separate themselves from the slums at the other end. The photos give clues as to other sites with secrets to tell. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...
Just a few spaces left for my 2pm town hall tour today. #Walthamstow. More dates added on 3rd Sundays. This month’s date is different to avoid Open House. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waltham-fo...
Join us this Bank Holiday weekend to discover the scandals of St James's, the secrets of Walthamstow art & industry in the East End and a tour of #Greenwich footprintsoflondon.com @robssmith.bsky.social @capitalwalks.bsky.social
Did a quick recce for a #Chingford walk I’m doing on Sunday and although I’ve passed this spot multiple times I’ve never stopped to admire St Peter & St Paul Church from this angle!
I don’t often go via #Woodford Station so that’s my excuse for not noticing this mosaic and sign before. I did know about the Pankhurst local connection but it should be more widely broadcast.
If you missed my recent “Secrets of Wood Street” #Walthamstow walks join me on either Thurs 13th or Sat 22nd August to discover the area once known as “On the Forest”, also the site of early film studios, a “hidden” church etc with @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/waltham-f...
Last two performances today of The Merry Wives of Windsor with #TheGreekTheatrePlayers in #Walthamstow. It was a fantastic evening. I have been attending for years and am so lucky to live nearby. Don’t forget to take a cushion! www.greektheatreplayers.co.uk
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Outdoor Shakespeare in Walthamstow London. Entertainment, Arts, Culture. London borough of Culture 2019. http://www.greektheatreplayers.co.uk
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AI fail!! We might share a name but I am definitely not an expert psychiatrist!
Join me at 11am-1pm tomorrow in #Walthamstow to discover some of the area’s fascinating history. We will of course include the original village of Church End, the famous market and the former Granada but did you know diary writer Pepys was a regular visitor? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...
Walking Tour - From Monoux and Morris to Beer and Bacon Jam
Explore the ups and downs of Walthamstow's history on this guided walk with Joanna Moncrieff
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I’m really looking forward to my annual visit to see the Greek Theatre Players in #Walthamstow next week. From 22nd-25th July 2026 they will be performing The Merry Wives of Windsor. Entrance is at the bend on Woodbury Rd E17 9SB. Tickets are on the door only. www.greektheatreplayers.co.uk
Waltham Forest Archives@lbwfarchives.bsky.social · 2y agoBuilt in 1924, the Greek Theatre at Walthamstow School for Girls opened in 1925. The project was led by headmistress Mary Norris. The theatre was used for school productions, such as Iphigenia, c.1930. The local Greek Theatre Players now present a Shakespeare play here every summer. #WorldTheatreDay
Still a few spaces for next Sunday’s tours of #WalthamForest Town Hall Join me to explore this fascinating building www.eventbrite.com/o/8725855292...
Argh dropped 60+ Oyster in grounds of St #Marylebone Church at start of walk. In Rail200 card holder. Annoyingly when I noticed later someone on my walk remembered seeing it on the ground! Why didn’t they say something! Hoping someone googles me! Although I’m not the only JM!
This is a bit niche but has anyone else come across depictions of £ s d on ceilings of civic buildings like this in #Walthamstow? The foyer originally had a counter for rate payments etc. I’m doing tours this Sunday if you would like to see this in person! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waltham-fo...
The great locomotive engineer Nigel Gresley was born 150 years ago today.
Sir Nigel Gresley - Hadley Wood
{Main plaque, around pictures of Gresley and Flying Scotsman and Mallard locomotives:} Sir Nigel Gresley 1876 - 1941. Sir Nigel Gresley lived in Hadley Wood in 1923 - 29 and used this station daily. H...
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This Thurs 18 June at 7.30pm join us to hear Allen Packwood, Director of @chuarchives.bsky.social talk about Winston Churchill & his connections with Essex & Chingford. In person & online. Image: “Woodford Churchill” by @diamondgeezer.bsky.social CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winston-ch...
Winston Churchill and Essex including his connections to Chingford
With Allen Packwood, Director of Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge
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An unusual font at @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social #Walthamstow substack.com/@joannawestm...
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On Tuesday whilst visiting St Peter-in-the-Forest in Walthamstow I came across this unusual font made out of a Wild Service Tree. I think the wording is: “In grateful memory of 3 faithful servants of ...
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I had a fantastic day at the #AntiquesRoadshow at #ValentinesMansion yesterday. It was so well organised and we were so very lucky with the weather. Found out my Georgian looking rummer glass is from the 1970s (at least I can use it now - a perfect glass for a large g&t)!
We're holding a meet up in London on 1st July. It doesn't matter if you're an author, broadcaster, tour guide or general hustler, you're more than welcome as long as you work in history and aren't part of academia (sorry lovely academics!) DM us for location as places are limited!
This is glorious. (From the British Museum, Midsummer 1939.)
I saw this last night. @thejinkx.bsky.social was absolutely amazing! The standing ovation at the end said it all.
Soho Theatre@sohotheatre.bsky.social · 5mo ago@thejinkx.bsky.social is the talk of the town as Judy Garland (as she should be) End of the Rainbow is now playing at Walthamstow until Sat 21 Jun. We'd get on it quick if we were you x buff.ly/hDTtaFk 📽️ Jake Waby
Next Sunday 17th May at 12pm or 2pm join me on one of my monthly tours of #WalthamForest Town Hall in #Walthamstow. My research continues so no tour is ever the same! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waltham-fo...
Waltham Forest Town Hall Guided Tour
Guided tour around the interior and exterior of Waltham Forest Town Hall with qualified guide Joanna Moncrieff
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Next Sunday 17th May at 12pm or 2pm join me on one of my monthly tours of #WalthamForest Town Hall in #Walthamstow. My research continues so no tour is ever the same! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waltham-fo...
Waltham Forest Town Hall Guided Tour
Guided tour around the interior and exterior of Waltham Forest Town Hall with qualified guide Joanna Moncrieff
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Join us at our next meeting on Thursday 21st May at 7.30pm for ‘Breaking Bread, bakeries in #WalthamForest with Lucy Harrison and Alan Crown. As usual this will be both in person in N #Chingford and online via Zoom. Just £3 for non-members www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/breaking-b...
Breaking Bread, Bakeries in Waltham Forest
Talk by Lucy Harrison with Alan Crown
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I’ve gone down a bit of a rabbit hole with these two #bollards! My initial thoughts were that MBS was a parish but I now realise they refer to the former Metropolitan Borough of Stepney. The newer one is outside the old Jewish soup kitchen and the other in Lolesworth Close. Both E1.
In 1897 a medical officer said Chingford was ‘cut off to a great extent from the rest of the world’. It's obviously not cut off now but it has a very different history to its neighbour Walthamstow. @westminsterwalks.bsky.social explores #Chingford on Monday. Book at footprintsoflondon.com
What are your plans this #BankHoliday Monday? Why not join me on a walk around N #Chingford. Hear about a cast of characters that includes Queen Victoria, Lawrence of Arabia & Ivor Novello. The walk includes traversing former field boundaries via public footpaths www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...
Walking Tour - From Pimp Hall to Ale House Field (Chingford)
A bank holiday walk exploring Chingford's history from forest village to London suburb with an unexpected cast of characters along the way.
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