please empty your brain below
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TomH | 13.02.26 - 9:02 a.m. | #

'if you want to see a train pass through they only run every 20 minutes' - Per direction, but you will always wait an average of less than 10 minutes (the spacing is not consistent throughout the day)

theEdgington | 13.02.26 - 9:32 a.m. | #

My late father attended Chigwell School 1922-29 and the line through the Grange Hill tunnel was unelectrified at the time. According to his school notes the tunnel was a way to cheat at school cross country, so that tunnel might have resembled the “fox & hounds” scene from “The Railway Children”.

JOHN GREENWOOD | Homepage | 13.02.26 - 9:56 a.m. | #

"He lived, he laughed, he loved" doesn't sound a bad epitaph to me.

Boffin | 13.02.26 - 10:26 a.m. | #

So Limes Avenue is all evens and Copperfield is all odds? Bizarre.

Jonathan Wadman | 13.02.26 - 10:29 a.m. | #

Another place almost on my doorstep; I regularly drive by the crossroads and I’ve sampled the wares at Elly’s Caffé.

I believe there were a few local boundary changes around Grange Hill in the 1990s, swapping parts of Redbridge (London) with Epping Forest (Essex), which may explain the current shape of the boundary.

The pub that took a direct hit from a parachute mine (‘The Prince of Wales’) was rebuilt after the war and survived until the 1990s and was subsequently replaced by flats – not by the Shell garage, the garage was already there and the pub was immediately to the west. The other pub (‘The Bald Hind’) lay behind the garage and has also been replaced by flats.

The striking green-tiled house in one of your photos is not long for this world. Planning permission was granted a few years ago for another flat development there, and pre-demolition clearance recently started on the site. A similar ‘Spanish-style’ house nearby was also demolished a few years back.

North of the railway tracks west of the tunnel was once an orchard owned by the Great Eastern Railway. This used to provide much of the fruit produce for the Great Eastern Hotel beside Liverpool Street station.

Alan S | 13.02.26 - 10:52 a.m. | #

St Winifred's - looking at these photos the tower has been modified (presumably to hide mobile phone equipment), the original had a flag pole.

Still Anon | 13.02.26 - 11:35 a.m. | #

I imagine most people walk to Hainault to get the more frequent and direct trains to central London.

Interesting blog, I hadn't realised that Grange Hill was Essex whereas Hainault is in London. The boundary here doesn't make much sense.

Mikey C | 13.02.26 - 11:40 a.m. | #

The boundary - subject to later minor changes - is a legacy of the old Chigwell / Ilford boundary.

Alan S | 13.02.26 - 12:05 p.m. | #

The eastern end of the Central line is a complete mystery to me, as I live at the other end of it!
I'm pretty sure the only time I've been anywhere near that part of London was when doing the London Loop!

Cornish Cockney | 13.02.26 - 12:37 p.m. | #

The residents of 22 Dacre Gardens are presumably Discworld fans. Of course, the name was originally a reference to Dylan Thomas's fictional province of Llareggub.

swirlythingy | 13.02.26 - 1:54 p.m. | #











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