The Great Eastern arrived at Forest Gate in 1839. The army of clerks in the City of London needed housing and new suburbs sprang up to meet the demand as shown on the next map. The map below also marks the arrival of the Tottenham and Forest Gate Junction Railway (now the Barking-Gospel Oak) with Wanstead Park station opened 1894. This is an example of blatant marketing by the railway company, since it is nowhere near Wanstead Park proper. Robert Nurden was born seven months before his grandfather died. He was determined to find out what drove this complex and contradictory man, trapped Between Heaven and Earth.

Stratford had a wholesale fruit and vegetable market developed by the railway company in Burford Rd. You can also see Angell Pond at the junction of Capel and Woodford Roads, developed by West Ham council engineer Lewis Angell to assist drainage on the Flats, which were very boggy. A bandstand soon appeared too demolished in the 1950s. Yet the chance discovery of hundreds of secret letters and diaries of three women – many quoted in this account – shattered the image. These amazing documents show in intriguing and often explicit detail that, as a husband and father of seven, he had an affair and liaisons with members of his congregation. Just how much did his family and friends know? Their ultimate fate isn't known, but they recruited the local organiser, Arthur Beavan to the role of local organiser. He was a thug, who was detained, without trail, in 1940, following the outbreak of war with Germany.There were a number of these kind of societies in East London at the time, they were often known as Four Per Cent Societies. They were privately funded by non- exploitative investors/landlords, who wanted to build decent housing for working people, and in exchange were guaranteed a four per cent return on their capital - paid for from the rents. From HM Land Registry price paid data we exclude category B type transactions as well as transactions where an error may have occurred (at our discretion) or where we believe that the transaction may not be related to a property. This may impact property price estimates as well as other data / information shown. is the estimated property value as of today. This is calculated by considering the last sale price and average growth of 19.762025177169143% per year in the region.

Out of all property types, Detached property has always been the most valued and flats are the lowest in valuation. Owen was born and educated in Forest Gate. He is now a Financial Times journalist, living in Walthamstow with his wife and two young sons. Whilst we use our reasonable care and skill in providing our services, we do not warrant or guarantee that the information, data provided, calculation methodologies or valuation estimate methodologies are accurate, free from errors, complete, reliable, constantly available, up to date or fit for your or anyone else's purpose or use. Any property valuation estimates provided are estimates only. They do not take into consideration the current condition of the property, appearance, improvements or alterations made since its last sale, valuation impacting leasehold / freehold matters, valuation impacting local matters and others. Bullivant was the daughter of middle class conservatives from Norfolk and was employed as the secretary to the sales manager at Yardley, the cosmetics company, the core of whose iconic headquarters survives on the approach to Bow Bridge, in Stratford. She lived at 94 Chestnut Avenue. Built on a Lie – The Rise and Fall of Neil Woodford and the Fate of Middle England’s Money– Owen Walker

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