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  • The changing face of the high road

    Leytonstone High Road has been a dominant thoroughfare for centuries, as part of the main highway from Epping to London, leading from the Green Man inn to Stratford. Not only was the high road used to transport goods to London markets, it was also

  • Singing protesters shut down Edmonton Incinerator meeting

    Singing protestors furious about plans to rebuild the Edmonton Incinerator shut down a meeting of north London’s waste authority. The North London Waste Authority (NLWA) has been subject to a long-running campaign over its £1.2billion plan to rebuild

  • Rare 120-year-old picture of a gift for forest visitors

    A rarely seen image of the drinking fountain adjacent to Butler’s Retreat c1900. The polished red granite water fountain was erected in 1899 on Epping Forest land for the use of visitors to the forest as “The gift of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence