Redbridge 1995 Color | Re-photo

Redbridge 1995 Color: Redbridge is without doubt one of the boroughs within the north-east of London and never one which I go to very often. The one main city within the borough is Ilford, and had they referred to as the borough that extra folks would know the place it’s.

As an alternative they named it after an space within the suburbs of Ilford, which acquired its title from a pink brick bridge over the River Roding. It stood out as most different bridges have been stone and shades of white. The bridge was demolished in 1921 however the title caught.

A lot of the borough is roofed by suburban sprawl, notably from the interwar years, however important components of Essex’s Epping Forest stay, and the place the pink bridge as soon as stood is now an enormous street junction the place the North Round Street (right here the South Woodford to Barking Aid Street) intersects with the A12 Jap Avenue. And slightly additional north is Charle Brown’s Roundabout the place the North Round and different roads result in the M11 in a posh interchange. The title got here from the owner of a pub, The Roundabout, demolished in 1972 to construct M11 slip roads, and has no hyperlink to the extra well-known Limehouse pub.

The extension of the Central Line of the London Underground system to right here – the Hainault Loop – was held up by the Second World Battle however opened in 1947 with some advantageous stations together with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gants_Hill_tube_station Gants Hill whose underground concourse between the platforms is usually mentioned to be impressed by the Moscow Metro.

It was designed by Charles Holden, higher recognized for his Thirties stations on the Piccadilly and different traces, and who was likely accountable partially for the recommendation given to Moscow within the early Thirties. In flip London Transport produced a report on the Moscow system and determined to construct an underground Underground station on comparable traces, designed by Holden.

Not like his earlier stations, Gants Hill is nearly solely underground, with its ticket corridor beneath the Gants Hill roundabout on Jap Avenue. The road follows Jap Avenue to the station after Gants Hill, Newbury Park the place it involves the floor and turns north till it exits the borough of Redbridge at Grange Hill.

I believe all of the the photographs I made in 1995 have been made on walks starting and ending both at Ilford (on the District line) or stations on the Central Line, together with South Woodford, Redbridge and Gants Hill.

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