We now have 54 clips on different project themes from our extensive sound archive.
A Century of Food in Waltham Forest
- Bill Belverstone – Pig’s trotters
- Bob Clark – Supermarkets
- De Courcy – Butchers, rabbits, Purkis
- Joe Young – Low Hall Farm cabbages
- Macropoulos – Milk delivery
- Macropoulos – The muffin man
- Miss Judd – Cheap food and bread pudding
- Miss Judd – Christmas dinner
- Miss Judd – Toffee
- Sarah Smellie – Potatoes, not rice
- Sid Revell – Deliveries
- Sid Revell – Stewpot
- Steve Davies – Imported fish
- Steve Davies – The supermarket effect
- Wood Street Purkises
Toy-making
- Bill Regan – Drawing was the first stage
- Bill Regan – Producing a model soldier
- Eileen Witham moulded toys at Britains
- Ethel Atkins – Working conditions
- Gary Heals’ mother worked at Wells
- Jean Ralston was a homeworker at Britains
- Peter Cole recalls the development process for new models
- Rose Diver worked at Lesney, makers of Matchbox toys
- Sue Russell painted models for Britains
- Sue Russell speaks of her enthusiasm for the products
- Tom Atkins worked at Wells
World War I
- Blast damage from bomb
- Bomb in Hoe Street
- Family’s war service
- Father injured in no man’s land
- First experience of margarine
- Food shortages
- German aircraft and an airship
- German bakers attacked
- German-owned shop stoned
- Horses taken for war service, and one returned
- Munitions worker
- Sam Taylor came across Chinese workers on the battlefields
- Sam Taylor joined the army in 1917
- Service in Iraq and India
- Silvertown explosion
- Zeppelin
Leyton Gateway
For new and old and former residents of Leyton Gateway, normally known as Lea Bridge Road, west of Markhouse corner, this compilation of recordings made in the 1990s should be of interest.
Local people talk about the floods, World War 1 and 2, lamp lighting, countryside, farms, trams, buses, steam lorries and more.
Listen to our compilation and perhaps next time you walk around the area you will see it with new eyes.
Also see our book The Road to Jeremy’s Ferry – looking at the Lea Bridge Road area.
Memories of the Workhouse
Nellie Williams remembers her time in the workhouse as a child
(these are old recordings and we are sorry the sound quality is not as good as we would wish)
Arthur Jones was born in the Leytonstone Workhouse
- Recalling his early life
- Later he worked at Whipps Cross hospital