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Evacuated to a home from home
11:22am Thursday 23rd October 2008
A series of events will take place next year to commemorate the evacuation of thousands of London schoolchildren to the countryside as the Second World War began. In the run-up, Gary Godfrey is hoping to track down some of his fellow evacuees.
Comments (0)The green-fingered doctor’s lost garden
1:59pm Thursday 25th September 2008
The English country garden is an idea very much alive in suburban London and Essex, but some prime examples are now almost forgotten, as EDMUND TOBIN discovered.
East London adventurer set sail into the great unknown
3:24pm Thursday 11th September 2008
Campaigners led by William Wilberforce succeeded in getting the slave trade abolished in 1833. But as CARL BROWN finds out, one notable Leyton resident was working to free hundreds of European slaves as early as the 17th century.
Former Olympians recall their time in the spotlight
3:47pm Tuesday 19th August 2008
WITH the glitz and glamour of the Beijing Olympic Games currently dazzling the world, the Guardian’s CHARLIE CAMPBELL spoke to sporting heroes from humbler times.
Churchill’s legacy is still doing us proud
9:20am Thursday 14th August 2008
The eyecatching Sir Winston Churchill statue in Woodford Green is one of the area’s defining landmarks. Reporter DANIEL BINNS finds out the story behind the much-loved monument.
The bargain Olympics that cost just £600k
3:18pm Wednesday 6th August 2008
On the 60th anniversary of the Olympic Games in London, reporter Mhairi Macfarlane compares the Beijing event to another era when athletes competed on a shoestring budget.
‘Life’s so much better now I’m called Rinaldo’
12:54pm Wednesday 9th July 2008
What's in a name? Mhairi Macfarlane discovered why one man changed his - and is now much happier because of it.
Keats' Walthamstow links
3:58pm Friday 4th July 2008
THE words of the great Romantic poet John Keats have echoed around the world ever since his death 187 years ago in 1821.
You had to work, and work hard
3:53pm Friday 4th July 2008
"IF any would not work, Neither should he eat".
Secrets of the research station
3:46pm Friday 4th July 2008
FOR over half a century it produced scientific discoveries of national importance but few in the area knew of its existence.
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He may have made the successful transition from Slough to Hollywood, but you won't catch Ricky Gervais losing his head over fame and fortune. As he makes his first lead debut in Ghost Town, the British funnyman reveals why he plans to stay grounded.
The Players’ Choice will be the right one
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Fright night fun
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Walthamstow’s photographic society, founded in 1894, isn’t just one of the oldest in the country, it’s also one of the most successful. Its free annual exhibition is on this week at St Mary's Welcome Centre in Walthamstow village: weekday evenings and all day Saturday 1 November.
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