E7-NowandThen
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Host of www.E7-NowandThen.org. Interested in #CPFC, food, local history, politics, our dogs. Ex hack.
New Post: Some E7 late Victorian letterheads. Frequent contributor, Peter Williams, records a rich finding of well-illustrated letterheads from near-by businesses supplying the local Burial Board and cemeteries in late Victorian Forest Gate, courtesy of Newham's Archives.
August 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
New Post: Some E7 late Victorian letterheads. Frequent contributor, Peter Williams, records a rich finding of well-illustrated letterheads from near-by businesses supplying the local Burial Board and cemeteries in late Victorian Forest Gate, courtesy of Newham's Archives.
New post: Strange historic suicide deaths on Claremont Road, Forest Gate: www.E7-NowandThen.org
August 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
New post: Strange historic suicide deaths on Claremont Road, Forest Gate: www.E7-NowandThen.org
New post: The life and death of local Spanish Civil War International Brigade volunteer, Tom Duncombe: www.E7-NowandThen.org. @ibmt-scw.bsky.social @claptoncfc.co.uk
July 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
New post: The life and death of local Spanish Civil War International Brigade volunteer, Tom Duncombe: www.E7-NowandThen.org. @ibmt-scw.bsky.social @claptoncfc.co.uk
New post: Review of On Romford Road, Andrew Sanger's fifth novel and a family saga about two east end families, whose feud carries from the 1900s til the 1990s. A page turner, with many Forest Gate references.
July 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
New post: Review of On Romford Road, Andrew Sanger's fifth novel and a family saga about two east end families, whose feud carries from the 1900s til the 1990s. A page turner, with many Forest Gate references.
A bit different (2). Yesterday she graduated from high school and we will support her in nursing college from September. We still support one of her brothers and her exceptionally gifted sister. The picture of Isa's parents' shows the pride. See our charity website www.SohmSchoolsSupport.org.uk
June 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
A bit different (2). Yesterday she graduated from high school and we will support her in nursing college from September. We still support one of her brothers and her exceptionally gifted sister. The picture of Isa's parents' shows the pride. See our charity website www.SohmSchoolsSupport.org.uk
A bit different (1). Yesterday was a special day for us. 13 years ago in a conversation with a security guard I met while on holiday in The Gambia, he told me his two sons were at nursery school, but his older daughter wasn't "because we can't afford it".
June 29, 2025 at 12:07 PM
A bit different (1). Yesterday was a special day for us. 13 years ago in a conversation with a security guard I met while on holiday in The Gambia, he told me his two sons were at nursery school, but his older daughter wasn't "because we can't afford it".
New post: Local historians, Peter Williams and Mark Gorman go on a detective hunt and track down the origins and function of a WW2 relic discovered on Wanstead Flats. There is an ironic twist to the tale! www.E7-NowandThen.org
June 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New post: Local historians, Peter Williams and Mark Gorman go on a detective hunt and track down the origins and function of a WW2 relic discovered on Wanstead Flats. There is an ironic twist to the tale! www.E7-NowandThen.org
New post: Strange historic childhood deaths on Claremont Road, Forest Gate: www.E7-NowandThen.org
June 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
New post: Strange historic childhood deaths on Claremont Road, Forest Gate: www.E7-NowandThen.org
New post: Peter Williams tells the tale of the strange ex off-licence on Barwick Road, Forest Gate. www.E7-NowandThen.org
May 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
New post: Peter Williams tells the tale of the strange ex off-licence on Barwick Road, Forest Gate. www.E7-NowandThen.org
New post: Educational enterprise in late Victorian Forest Gate, as four houses in Claremont Road operate as schools/colleges. www.E7-NowandThen.org (long read)
May 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
New post: Educational enterprise in late Victorian Forest Gate, as four houses in Claremont Road operate as schools/colleges. www.E7-NowandThen.org (long read)
New post: @claptoncfc.co.uk unveil memorial to the International Brigade of Spanish Civil War anti-fascist volunteers whose colours inspired the club's away kit, on Sat 26 April at Old Spotted Dog ground. E7-Nowandthen.org commemorates local volunteers. Day is the anniversary of bombing of Guernica.
April 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
New post: @claptoncfc.co.uk unveil memorial to the International Brigade of Spanish Civil War anti-fascist volunteers whose colours inspired the club's away kit, on Sat 26 April at Old Spotted Dog ground. E7-Nowandthen.org commemorates local volunteers. Day is the anniversary of bombing of Guernica.
New post: The pay, conditions, and fate of domestic servants in late Victorian Forest Gate: www.E7-NowandThen.org
April 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
New post: The pay, conditions, and fate of domestic servants in late Victorian Forest Gate: www.E7-NowandThen.org
New post: Regular cotributors, Peter Williams and Mark Gorman examine the background to the western end of Capel Road, so very different from the rest: farms, car dealers and repairers, cafes and petrol stations! www.E7-NowandThen.org
March 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
New post: Regular cotributors, Peter Williams and Mark Gorman examine the background to the western end of Capel Road, so very different from the rest: farms, car dealers and repairers, cafes and petrol stations! www.E7-NowandThen.org
New post: Peter Ashan, who began a series of Freedom Walks in east London in 2007, to reveal the hidden history of the contribution of people of colour to the east end of London, features some aspects of his Freedom Walk of Forest Gate. Details of his other walks in article. www.E7-NowandThen.org
March 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
New post: Peter Ashan, who began a series of Freedom Walks in east London in 2007, to reveal the hidden history of the contribution of people of colour to the east end of London, features some aspects of his Freedom Walk of Forest Gate. Details of his other walks in article. www.E7-NowandThen.org
New blog article: @skelding.bsky.social tells the story of Forest Gate's Nora and Charles Busby and their trials and tribulations as missionaries in China between the 1920s and 1950s, incl a period as Japanese internees during WW2. Charles' brother Walter awarded MC in WW1. www.E7-NowandThen.org
February 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
New blog article: @skelding.bsky.social tells the story of Forest Gate's Nora and Charles Busby and their trials and tribulations as missionaries in China between the 1920s and 1950s, incl a period as Japanese internees during WW2. Charles' brother Walter awarded MC in WW1. www.E7-NowandThen.org
New post: Peter Williams traces the history of 89 Dames Road and offers great tips for people tracing the history of properties: www.E7-NowandThen.org
February 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
New post: Peter Williams traces the history of 89 Dames Road and offers great tips for people tracing the history of properties: www.E7-NowandThen.org
Local resident and author, Robert Nurden, tells of how his Chestnut Ave home will soon be seen by millions on TV. Amandaland - an offshoot of Motherland - plus Joanna Lumley - airs on BBC1, 9pm on 5 Feb. His house is a location site. See www.E7-NowandThen.org
February 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Local resident and author, Robert Nurden, tells of how his Chestnut Ave home will soon be seen by millions on TV. Amandaland - an offshoot of Motherland - plus Joanna Lumley - airs on BBC1, 9pm on 5 Feb. His house is a location site. See www.E7-NowandThen.org
New post (2): @flatshistory.bsky.social examines women-led strikes at the birth of New Unionism (c1889) in East Ham (Crosse and Blackwell and Gutta Percha) - assisted by Eleanor Marx: www.E7-NowandThen.org
December 19, 2024 at 9:25 AM
New post (2): @flatshistory.bsky.social examines women-led strikes at the birth of New Unionism (c1889) in East Ham (Crosse and Blackwell and Gutta Percha) - assisted by Eleanor Marx: www.E7-NowandThen.org
New post (1): @flatshistory.bsky.social continues his series on pre-industrial local agriculture, examining how two East Ham farms became the foundation of large-scale Crosse and Blackwell onion pickling production in the late 1880's: www.E7-NowandThen.org
December 19, 2024 at 9:19 AM
New post (1): @flatshistory.bsky.social continues his series on pre-industrial local agriculture, examining how two East Ham farms became the foundation of large-scale Crosse and Blackwell onion pickling production in the late 1880's: www.E7-NowandThen.org
New post: Early C20th memorials to Japanese seafarers in Newham cemeteries. A fascinating discovery and tale: www.E7-NowandThen.org
December 4, 2024 at 2:44 PM
New post: Early C20th memorials to Japanese seafarers in Newham cemeteries. A fascinating discovery and tale: www.E7-NowandThen.org
ww.E7-NowandThen.org also features local: streets and estates, religions and their buildings, education, housing, industry, cinemas and pubs, Wanstead Flats, war at home & abroad, transport, charities, witchcraft, murders and frausters, monuments and migrant communities and farms! Pop over and look!
November 24, 2024 at 3:55 PM
ww.E7-NowandThen.org also features local: streets and estates, religions and their buildings, education, housing, industry, cinemas and pubs, Wanstead Flats, war at home & abroad, transport, charities, witchcraft, murders and frausters, monuments and migrant communities and farms! Pop over and look!
www.E7-NowandThen.org is the Forest Gate local history blog. It has been running for over 11 years, features more than 270 articles and has had 2 million hits - currently running at more than 1,000 a day. It is easy to search, with articles featuring local: politics, music, personalities, sport m/f
November 24, 2024 at 3:49 PM
www.E7-NowandThen.org is the Forest Gate local history blog. It has been running for over 11 years, features more than 270 articles and has had 2 million hits - currently running at more than 1,000 a day. It is easy to search, with articles featuring local: politics, music, personalities, sport m/f