WALTHAMSTOW: Free guided walk (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series)

WALTHAMSTOW: Free guided walk

1:29pm Sunday 4th July 2010 in

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A WALK has been arranged to take in one of Walthamstow's oldest shopping streets.

The free guided walk is entitled Wood Street - A Street of Surprises.

Wood Street is one of Walthamstow's oldest shopping streets; its shops once served the wealthy residents who lived in large houses near the forest.

Wood Street also once had film studios and today the street is a mosaic of the past and the present where a couple of remarkable 18th century survivors co-exist with buildings from the Victorian era as well as with post-war buildings.

The walk takes place on Saturday July 10 at 2pm.

Meet outside Wood Street Library, on the corner of Forest Road and Wood Street, Walthamstow.

The walk is arranged in partnership with the Walthamstow Historical Society. For more details e-mail walthamstowwalks@mz48.myzen.co.uk or call 07792 750017.