Die Stamping, GPO, Historical Home, Churchyard, Leaves & Market: I can’t now recall why I had solely time for a comparatively quick stroll in Walthamstow on Saturday sixteenth September 1989 nevertheless it was an attention-grabbing one. I believe probably I used to be sad with an image I had take earlier and had returned to have one other try.
From Walthamstow Central Station I crossed Hoe St and walked down St Mary Highway, which ends up in Church Path, and the Essex Die Stamping Co Ltd who had been additionally metal engravers was on this path. The corporate had moved out to Harlow once I made this image and the property had already been offered. It’s now residential.
On the finish of Church Path is Sacristy Highway and the Sacristy Home Museum in a Grade II listed constructing constructed because the parish workhouse in 1730. Earlier than opening as a neighborhood historical past museum in 1931 it had served as a police station, an armoury, a constructing service provider’s retailer, and a personal residence. Amongst its displays is “the Bremer Automotive, the primary British motor automobile with an inner combustion engine, which was constructed by Frederick Bremer (1872–1941) in a workshop behind his household residence in Connaught Highway, Walthamstow.” The museum is at present being renovated and may reopen in 2026.
The quick fluted column and capital exterior the museum was one of many many which adorned the frontage of Sir Robert Smirke’s wonderful neo-classical Basic Submit Workplace HQ in St Martin-le-Grand, inbuilt 19826-9 and demolished in 1912. It was then purchased by stone mason Frank Mortimer who offered it to Walthamstow Council. They put it in Lloyd Park, however moved it exterior the museum in 1954.
The Historical Home at 2,4,6 and eight, Church Lane was Grade II listed in 1951, early on within the pioneer survey which adopted the City and Nation Planning Acts of 1944 and 1947. The itemizing textual content signifies it started as a single fifteenth century corridor home however has since been transformed into separate dwellings with the corridor additionally divided into regular top flooring. It was extensively “restored in 1934 by Mr Robert Fuller underneath the supervision ofMr CJ Brewin, architect, as a memorial to W G Fuller, head of the Fuller’s agency of builders. “
An atmospheric view of the nook of St Mary’s Churchyard. Past the trail (though not displaying their greatest facet) are the almshouses “ERECTED and ENDOWED FOR EVER By Mrs MARY SQUIRES Widow for the Use of Six Decayed Tradesmens Widow of this Parish and no different” in 1795. You’ll be able to learn extra about them in an article by Karen Averby Story of Squires Almshouses inbuilt 1795 in Walthamstow, East London.
Though St Mary’s Church is nicely value a go to I didn’t {photograph} it (or take a correct image of the almshouses.) After I visited the Nationwide Constructing Document in Saville Row I typically needed to wait within the library the place I might pull recordsdata for varied areas off the cabinets and look by means of the photographs they contained. Most had been stuffed full of images of outdated church buildings, many taken by clergymen who apparently had time on their palms and had been typically eager newbie photographers. So I felt little must {photograph} outdated church buildings.
As an alternative I took the footpath by means of the churchyard to Church Hill whre I discovered this porch throughout the doorway to 2 homes with pleasant leaf ironwork.
Earlier than catching the Underground from Walthamstow Central I had time for a brief wander alongside Walthamstow Market which claims to be a mile lengthy however isn’t, although at round a kilometre it’s nonetheless the second longest outside market in Europe.
The market started in 1885 and operates 5 days every week with round 500 market stalls in addition to outlets on each side of the road. It’s nonetheless value a go to however I believe has gone down significantly since 1989, although the 4 photos I took on this event (three on-line) don’t present it at its greatest.
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