please empty your brain below
Memories came flooding back having lived in BH from the age of 6 in 1953 to 1978 - Knighton Woods being our childhood playground - ours was the first house "out of London" on the High Road (#1 opposite the aforementioned Beech Lane). You don't mention Queens Road - much mentioned on TOWIE (so I have heard)

Rob Gullen | 29.04.23 - 7:44 a.m. | #

Yay, another direct hit on a reader's house.

I don't mention Queens Road because it's in Essex.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 29.04.23 - 7:46 a.m. | #

Is there an online map which shows both postcode boundaries (a nebulous concept, I know) and local authority borders? I feel like I may need to dig out my A-Z.

martin | 29.04.23 - 8:06 a.m. | #

Streetmap.co.uk used to show postcode district boundaries, but sadly switched from Bartholomew mapping to OS a few years ago.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 29.04.23 - 8:10 a.m. | #

R.I.P 332, 507, 521 & N16
I'd have thought you'd mention that today.

Al B | Homepage | 29.04.23 - 8:20 a.m. | #

I notice both JP Aero and May of London both started trading here in 1958.

Nick | 29.04.23 - 8:39 a.m. | #

My biggest apology for mistaking IG as Instagram.

Patrickov | 29.04.23 - 8:41 a.m. | #

The 533, from one side of Hammersmith Bridge to the other, via Chiswick Bridge, is another 5xx survivor. Supposedly temporary, but it's existed now for 4 years

Timbo | 29.04.23 - 8:43 a.m. | #

May the gun shop at Roding Valley is, I'm pretty, sure the successor of Mays cycle shop that was in Queens Road in the 1950 and early 60s. I bought a bike there and also used to get pellets for my airgun at the shop.

Rob Gullen | 29.04.23 - 8:47 a.m. | #

No 702 High Rd BH, used to be half in Essex, half in London. It is now all in Essex, but its main claim to fame is that it was the site of the "Riven Tree", or the waymarker between the Hundreds of Becontree (now London) and Ongar (still Essex), and thus (on the border on the High Road) the site of the gibbet ground where bodies of executed murderers were exhibited in chains. The house is up for sale at present; I wonder if the agent advertises its macabre past?

Crispy | 29.04.23 - 10:03 a.m. | #

702 is next door to the house I lived in - 702 used to be No 219 before some renumbering by Redbridge LA and was home to a chap called Clifford Heap who was quite a well-know puppeteer in the 1950s and 60s - putting on shows at the house and around the country.
There was a large "function room" in the house that was hired out for ballroom dancing lessons and the Young Conservatives used to meet there.

Rob Gullen | 29.04.23 - 10:19 a.m. | #

I wonder if Brancepeth Gardens is at all related to the aforementioned Durham Avenue. Brancepeth is a village not far from the city of Durham, after all.

Peewee | 29.04.23 - 11:22 a.m. | #

Rob Gullen - Douglas Heap has just died.
No more YCs as the present resident is a
green party councillor.
Some might count that as progress of a sort!

Chrispy | 29.04.23 - 11:29 a.m. | #

Very interesting, definitely a part of London I need to explore more, especially that woodland which is a bit off the beaten track when compared to the rest of Epping Forest.

I've always though the shape of NE London a bit odd, if it matched the reach of NW London then places like Chigwell, Buckhurst Hill and even Loughton would be part of London.

Mikey C | 29.04.23 - 12:05 p.m. | #

I remember Douglas (Clifford's son), I think he had just left school when we moved there in 1953 - pretty sure he worked in the theatre world?
[If you're local - we lived in the white house at the end of the narrow driveway next to 702 - it looked very tatty last time I went past - my father moved from there in 1978]

Rob Gullen | 29.04.23 - 3:11 p.m. | #

Mikey... Chigwell UDC mounted a very vigorous campaign - ultimately successful - to keep out of Greater London in 1960-62.

crispy | 29.04.23 - 4:11 p.m. | #

Several decades ago I had a university summer holiday job as a milkman in Buckhurst Hill. Hillside Avenue and its endless cul-de-sacs was part of my round. A tea break was usually taken in the entrance to one of the sports grounds near Roding Valley station.

Alan S | 29.04.23 - 5:10 p.m. | #











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