Children from Edinburgh Primary School in Walthamstow are taking a trip back in time to discover how their community has transformed over 150 years.

Newspaper reports, neighbour’s memories, pictures and memorials in the cemetery are being used to piece together a picture Queens Road's bygone era.

Classes have discovered that 150 years-ago the area was orchards, watercress beds and grazing for cattle.

But, the development along the road was dramatic and by 1900 most of the streets and houses seen today had been built, the children have learnt.

The project ‘Watercress Beds to One-Way Streets: 1915 Stories from around Queen’s Road’ is being run by Company, well known for site-specific theatre projects.

Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund the project involves drama, music, history and gardening workshops with children, who have showcased their work in an installation in the former Anglican Chapel at Queen’s Road Cemetery during the E17 Art Trail.

Later this year a website featuring a series of interactive maps of the neighbourhood will be launched.

Jane Harris, Headteacher of Edinburgh Primary School, said: “Children from our school are very much enjoying, and benefiting from, taking part in this project.

“They are learning by means of their own discoveries, building up a picture not only of the development of their local area but stories of their own families, finding out where they were and what they were doing a century ago.”

Anyone with information or memories of Queens Road should contact info@clioscompany.co.uk.