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It certainly has improved since the rat running traffic was stopped. The whole area around is so much better and feels friendlier warmth a slower pace of life. Funny what a difference a few signs can make.
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...or if you'd believe the local Facebook groups, not being able to drive there has ruined the place and it's all incomers without a regard for born and bred locals. I dread to think what will happen when they spot the viennoiserie that opened last week to 20-deep queues.
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Having lived on Leyton High Road (by the Midland Rd Station) in the 1970s I recall that Francis Road had really useful shops way back then - including a superb ironmongery/ plumbing shop. . . the name escapes me. Someone may remember it.
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Clearly you'd been after its morning clean, so immaculate do your pictures look. I often pass through on my cycle home late at night after work, and the bins are usually surrounded by foxes looking for rich pickings in the rubbish sacks placed there, tearing them open and leaving them and the remains of their contents strewn across the road.
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Many of those in suburbia who lament the passing of the independent butcher, baker, candlestick maker, grocer, cheesemonger, tobacconist, clothes shop, shoe shop and ironmonger from “back in the day / when I was growing up” didn’t give a thought to saving them when the big Tesco, Asda, Lidl, Waitrose, Sainsbury’s, Aldi, Morrisons, Homebase, B&Q, Westfield etc moved in nearby. The same people now moan about too many coffee shops, restaurants, hairdressers and nail bars.
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Are there any tattoo parlours in Francis Road?
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I think the intro alone for Unchartered Streets would have me buying it - brilliant!!
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Nice Blake'ian London reference in Matt Haynes' book-title - I was also a big fan of Smoke.
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Another vote for Smoke. Pretty sure I used to buy it at the large Borders bookshop in the N1 shopping centre.
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It is always a pleasure to read about such parts of London as I, being a foreigner and occasional visitor to London, have never even heard of.
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I think it's high time francis rd was re-designated 'Leyton Village.' It ticks all the boxes.
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Good to know there is an organic jar shop there. I hate buying jars that have been grown with artificial fertilizer!
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I always love a good suburban record store. Added this to my 'when I finally get back to London after the Pandemic' list.
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Porter & Wheatley was the plumbing shop.
Can't remember an ironmongers though. Can't see it being designated Leyton Village, it's only one road. It's probably only the locals referring to it trying to bump up the house prices |
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In a less fragrant part of Leyton, by the Bakers Arms, is the ironmongery of all ironmongery shops: The Walkround Store. This Tardis of a shop has all your DIY needs and none of the plastic packaging go B&Q.
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The Walkaround store is brilliant! I wonder if they still sell screws, bolts etc singly. I made many visits there when I lived just round the corner. |
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I thought it was Porter and something - IIRC they had a couple of shops in Francis Rd - and the Walkround was just amazing, I'm surprised it's still there - a couple of doors down towards the Bakers Arms junction was a wonderful tool emporium - Sedgewick & Bevan - and then Ferrari's cafe a few doors before Barclays Bank on the corner. And in the same vein as the Walkround Jobstocks in Walthamstow was another wonder of the world.
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Many thanks for this entry. I've lived in various places in East London for years and never knew of this place before! Now on the list to visit at some point.
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