The E List - April 2014

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Your cultural life in Walthamstow No.15 • April 2014

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Fellowship is Life

COVER STAR

Catboy

I’m an artist and illustrator living and working in Walthamstow.

I specialise mainly in mark-making. Pencil on paper, acrylic on wood and linocut prints; the drawn image – expressed by a mark, smudge, messy mistake or just a pure pencil line – excites me. I’m fascinated by visual storytelling, drawing a narrative, venturing into fairytale, make-believe, the unknown and just simple day-dreaming.

Over the last 7 years I’ve been creating a visual storyline around Catboy: the boy with the cat shadow. It was inspired initially by my mischievous cat Harrison and my nephew Austin. My own childhood has also provided a more general theme to my work.

As a young boy, I dreamt of being an astronaut and building a robot.

I liked to go for adventures on long summer days, climb trees, skim stones and cycle fast down country lanes. I want to portray this sense of youth, adventure and discovery in my work. Developing the possibilities of this narrative and the characters that have evolved from it, has allowed me to explore a varied subject matter: from enormous bears to flying cats to circus monkeys and Commedia dell’arte as well as depictions of Catboy himself as his character develops.

2014 marks the 10th anniversary of the E17 Art Trail and I’m looking forward to being involved in it again, with a retrospective of Catboy works.

The Art Trail played an important part in me starting to draw and paint again after a break of several years; in 2007 I started renting a studio space at Inky Cuttlefish on Blackhorse Lane and I’ve exhibited on every trail since 2008, with the Catboy character at the centre of each collection. Being part of the trail gives me the incentive to produce new work every year to a set deadline and encourages me to continuously develop. It also provides me with an invaluable opportunity to show my work to a large and receptive audience whose feedback and support I really appreciate.

On this year’s Art Trail, I will be exhibiting at my usual venue on Orford Road on Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th June. The show will feature both old and new works through the medium of linocut prints, pencil drawings and paintings. Subjects range from flying cats to cheeky monkeys to circus bears and I shall be unveiling a couple of brand new pieces one of which will contain a flying monkey. And, as Catboy hits his teenage years, my series of Catboy portraits will start to reveal more of the darker side to the boy with the cat shadow.

Catboy’s Travelling Circus Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th June Janice Tildsley Associates 47 Orford Road.

E17 9NJ www.catboy.co.uk www.facebook.com/catboycarl www.twitter.com/catboycarl

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you noticed how much people like to talk about Walthamstow. It seems to me a place where people are never short of an opinion. It’s also a place which evokes a good deal of fondness in many of its residents, which may explain why many of them are nervous of change through the fear of losing something that they love. E List regular, Spotted Wathamstow’s Facebook page is regularly the home to such discussions which often get quite heated and we reprint one such ‘hipster’ debate on page 19. Bill Foster, this month’s Local Hero has frequently touched on the subject of change on his Walthamstow Diary blog, but often finds comfort in the area’s history, seeing change as perpetual. Someone else who is always keen to debate the evolution of E17 is Bill Bayliss who has this month contributed an article on the Baths which until 1968 stood at the top of the High Street. Bill is a regular contributor to www.walthamstowmemories.net where you can read more of his histories. The website is used by hundreds of mainly former residents to share their memories of the town, and I would absolutely recommend diving into its wealth of photos and anecdotes. When I first approached Bill he said he didn’t think people who hadn’t grown up here would be interested, but I argued that one thing that connected the contributors to Walthamstow Memories and the readers of the E List was their interest, curiosity and passion for Walthamstow.

Said passion brings me neatly on to the E List Live which is happening as part of this month’s Eat or Heat’s Spring Fair on Saturday 26 April. Once you’ve sampled the delights of the vintage, arty and cake heaven to be found in the main hall you will find a room filled with people happy to talk all things Walthamstow - whether it be food, cycling, the environment, history, families etc, etc. If you want to know more about the place you live and maybe get more involved please join us.

Shopping opportunities on Orford Road are ever changing, but now there is news from Beulah Road. In the 1900s the road was lined with 48 shops, most of which have since been transformed into homes. But now some of the shops are being brought back to life and from the end of March there’ll be a small Saturday market with food, upcycled furniture, mirrors and innovative product design. Stalls are still available so please contact Alessandra, alessandrarigillo@googlemail.com.

Finally, a few weeks ago we quietly launched The E-List website www.theelist.co.uk which will soon feature many of our listings in a searchable format, so please visit, register and we’ll be in touch to let you know when everything’s up and running. Other things are coming too so another reason to sign up.

Paul Lindt, Editor

Walthamstow Baths The Wilcumstowe Times Walthamstow’s Wonderful Women Walk ‘What I love about the Marshes’ Exhibition Local Hero: Bill Foster Walthamstow Diary Spotted Walthamstow

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This month in Walthamstow

April

Tuesday 1 30+ Gay and Bisexual Men’s Social Network ELOP Centre, 56-60 Grove Road Walthamstow E17 9BN A space to meet each other, share experiences and socialise in a safe and welcoming environment away from the scene. The group get together for an outing. 7-9.30pm. £2.

02085093898 or e-mail info@elop.org New social supper club for 50+ lesbian and bisexual women ELOP Centre, 56-60 Grove Road Walthamstow E17 9BN Come and have supper at ELOP and take the opportunity to meet new people. A space to meet each other, share experiences and socialise in a safe and welcoming environment. 7-9pm. £2.

02085093898 or e-mail info@elop.org

Wednesday 2 Under 5’s Nature Explorers Meet in the Community Room in the Aveling Centre, Lloyd Park E17 4PP Adventures and activities in Lloyd Park for under 5s and their parents/carers.

We start with a fun ramble around the park searching for items around our monthly theme. There will then be activities and story time until 1pm.

Food warming facilities and hot drinks available during and after the activities.

10am-1pm. FREE but booking is recommend to avoid disappointment.

Contact Rachel on 07787193981 or e-mail r.hoyes@tcv.org.uk Evie Ladin & Keith Terry / Stick In The Wheel What’s Cookin’ @ Leytonstone Ex-servicemens Club, 2 Harvey Road E11 3DB Evie Ladin’s clawhammer banjo with percussionist/rhythm dancer Keith Terry. Plus English folk. FREE. Voluntary collection taken. 8pm-11pm 07904 210218 ramblinsteve@whatscookin.co.uk http://whatscookin.co.uk

Thursday 3 Lloyd Park Volunteer Gardening Meet at the William Morris Garden (near the Forest Road gate) Help keep the new William Morris Garden looking lovely with Lloyd Park’s Head Gardener. 10am-1pm. FREE. 020 8496 3000 or email ellie.mortimer@walthamforest.gov.uk.

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Circle Dancing Quaker Meeting House, 1a Jewel Rd E17 4QU All welcome. No need for a partner.

2-4pm. £4, tea, coffee and soft drinks included.

Pat on 020 8556 3508 or jean.duggleby@virgin.net “Face Value” The Mill, 7-11 Coppermill Lane E17 7HA Self-portraits and studies of family, friends or strangers. Meet the artists and talk to them about the portraits. Mill punch and nibbles FREE. Launch event 6-8.30pm www.themill-coppermill.org mo@themill-coppermill.org Queenie and Ted: Customised Clothing Shop Launch 39 Orford Road, E17 9NL Celebrate the official opening of the Queenie and Ted customised clothing shop and workshop in the heart of Walthamstow Village. Auntie Maureen will be spinning discs and live music will be provided by local singer, Jack Wint Riley. All welcome to pop in for a schmooze! FREE. 6pm-9pm. www.queenieandted.co.uk www.facebook.com/queenieandted Red Imp Comedy Club – Robin Ince And Nick Doody Rose and Crown Theatre Pub, 55 Hoe Street E17 4SA Robin co-presents Radio 4’s Sony Award winning Infinite Monkey Cage with Brian Cox. He has won 3 Chortle Awards and was nominated for Best Live Show at the British Comedy Awards. Support comes from Nick who has been polled on Twitter as one of the influential names in British comedy.

Doors 8.30pm. Show 9pm. £13 + booking fee. http://www.wegottickets.com/ event/253992 @Red_Imp_Comedy

Friday 4 Stow Baby Film Lounge presents Enough Said (2012, Cert 12A) Orford House Social Club, 73 Orford Road E17 9QR A sharp and insightful comedy that humorously explores the mess that often comes with getting involved again when a divorced woman, who decides to pursue the man she’s interested in, learns he’s her new friend’s ex-husband. Doors open 11.15am, Film 11.45am, Close 1.45pm. Tickets: £6.50/£5 conc, Babies up to 1yr only - Free.

Tickets: www.stowfilmlounge.com with any remaining tickets on the door. 07910 643987

DANCE/FITNESS She17 Grove Cafe, 21 Hatherley Mews, off Hoe Street E17 4QP The showcase of live acoustic women’s music returns. All genres and abilities welcome just so long as it is live, female and acoustic. E17 men folk can come along and watch too. Doors open 7.45pm. Show 8-10.30pm. £2.50. www.she17.com Stow Film Lounge presents Nebraska (2013, Cert 15) Orford House Social Club, 73 Orford Road E17 9QR A tempestuous, ageing, booze-addled father (Oscar nominated Bruce Dern) makes the road trip from Montana to Nebraska with his emotionally estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize. Doors open 7.45pm, Film 8.30pm, Late Bar, close midnight.

Tickets: £8/£6 conc, ticket + food £13.50 Tickets: www.stowfilmlounge.com or on the door. 07910 643987

Saturday 5 The Art Monthly Mothers Hub 133 Wood Street E17 3LX The Art Monthly is an art club devised from children aged 5-8yrs and a parent/carer to learn new creative activities together. Taught by Artist/ Teacher Sean Parfitt whose experience ranges from lower school to MA level.

The first session is a special half price taster. 10-11am. £7.50 for 1 child & adult, drop in sessions, must be booked by expressing interest via facebook page: MothershubE17, dropping in to the shop, or emailing info@mothershub.co.uk.

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Street Life Photography Workshop The Mill, 7-11 Coppermill Lane E17 7HA Shelly Khaled will lead a portrait workshop on various locations including the Marshes. FREE. Meet at the Mill 10am - goes on till 2pm.

020 8521 3211 www.themill-coppermill.org mo@themill-coppermill.org Yngve & The Innocent / The Travelling Souls What’s Cookin’ @ Leytonstone Ex-servicemens Club, 2 Harvey Road E11 3DB Rambunctious bar room elegies, New Orleans’ sagacious soul, and a rambling, roving commentary similar to ‘The Basement Tapes’. FREE. Voluntary collection taken. 8pm-11pm 07904 210218 ramblinsteve@whatscookin.co.uk http://whatscookin.co.uk The Escape Committee The Warrant Officer, 318 Higham Hill Road E17 5RG The masters of no-nonsense maximum pub rock make a welcome return to the WO. 9pm. FREE.

Sunday 6 Auntie Maureen presents a Vintage-a-Fair Orford House Social Club, 73 Orford Road E17 9QR Vintage, antique and collectible shopping fun for ladies and gents, with authentic flea circus, gramophone music and tea room hosted by Aura Rosa Cakes & Patisserie. 11am-5pm. £2, £1 concessions, under 15’s free.

Lovingly produced by www.auntiemaureen.info

WVRA Gardening Day Meet at Village Square on corner of Orford and Eden Roads Meet at the Village Square to sow seeds, plant herbs and pollinatorfriendly plants. Please bring a kneeler and handtools if you have them.

10.30am-12.30pm. FREE. Helen Lerner 0781 404 2499 or helen@walthamstowvillage.net

Table Top Sale Walthamstow Toy Library and Play Centre, Comely Bank Community Clinic, 46 Ravenswood Road E17 9LY Recycled, upcycled and nearly new items for sale with all proceeds going to the Walthamstow Toy Library.

Plus children’s activities, cake and refreshments. 10am-12pm. Adults £1; Kids FREE.

Stow Kids’ Film Lounge presents Frozen (2013, Cert PG) Orford House Social Club, 73 Orford Road E17 9QR Fearless optimist Anna teams up with Kristoff in an epic journey, encountering Everest-like conditions, and a hilarious snowman named Olaf in a race to find Anna’s sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom in eternal winter. Doors open 10.30am, Activity session, Film 11.00am, Close 1pm. Tickets: £5.50 child, £4 acc adult, Under 2’s free.

Tickets available online at www. stowfilmlounge.com or on the door.

Curatorial tour William Morris Gallery, Lloyd Park, Forest Road E17 4PP Join one of the Gallery’s curators for an introductory tour of the collection. We will tell the story of William Morris’s life through some key objects on display.

10-11am. £7.

02084964390 wmg.bookings@walthamforest.gov.uk http://www.wmgallery.org.uk/ A Spring Challenge Vestry House Museum, Vestry Road E17 9NH Join medical herbalist Gail Farrow for a spring tour of the Vestry House garden, exploring trees and plants that can be used for health and healing. 2-3pm. FREE no booking required.

020 8496 4391 www.walthamforest.gov.uk/vestry-house

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Eastern Front The Chequers, 145 High Street E17 7BX Sunday session with good food, great booze and DJs supplying an across the board soundtrack - folk funk, worldwide soul, balearic disco and much more.

4pm til late. FREE.

Monday 7 Welcome to the World of Tracy Beaker… Walthamstow Library, High Street E17 7JN Workshop bringing the zany world of Tracy Beaker to life! The Inventor of Extremely Outrageous Dares, puts your knowledge to the test! (ages 8-10).

FREE. 11.30am-12.30pm.

Reserve your place www.wflibraries. eventbrite.com, visit the library or 020 8496 3000 Spin-a-Disc The Nag’s Head, 9 Orford Road E17 9LP You bring the records, Auntie Maureen plays ‘m. Loud! On real turntables. So dust off your discs on 78, 45 or 33rpm and bring for a pizza-fuelled airing at the pub. 8pm-11pm. FREE.

Tuesday 8 Mrs H and the Singalong Band present… ‘In The Shed’ Walthamstow Library, High Street E17 7JN Join us for this fun filled event of music, song, puppets and dance. You can bring the whole family to this good time singalong! FREE. 11am-12noon Reserve your place www.wflibraries. eventbrite.com, visit the library or 020 8496 3000 Family history talk on ‘Heir Hunting’ Spruce Hills Baptist Church Hall, Brookscroft Road E17 4JP What happens when someone dies without leaving a will? Maurice Clarke, Founder of HHA, will explain how their money goes to the rightful heirs. FREE. 8pm.

No booking required.

Mark Carroll 020 8530 4755 18-30 Gay & Bisexual Men’s Social Network ELOP Centre, 56-60 Grove Road Walthamstow E17 9BN Group for 18-30yr old gay, bisexual & trans men. A space to meet each other, share experiences and socialise in a safe and welcoming environment away from the scene. 7-9.30pm. £2.

02085093898 or e-mail info@elop.org

Wednesday 9 Private Peaceful: Story Telling Performance Walthamstow Library, High Street E17 7JN John Kirk presents a reinterpretation of award winning author and former children’s laureate Michael Morpurgo’s acclaimed story, ‘Private Peaceful’ (Ages 7+). FREE. 4.30-5.30pm.

Reserve your place www.wflibraries. eventbrite.com, visit the library or 020 8496 3000

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Publishing is Easy Walthamstow Library, High Street E17 7JN Meet up group for anyone interested in writing, publishing and marketing of books and ebooks. Get your books selling to the world! FREE. 7-8.30pm.

Reserve your place www.wflibraries. eventbrite.com, visit the library or 020 8496 3000

Thursday 10 Creative Kids: Peacock Tiles William Morris Gallery, Lloyd Park, Forest Road E17 4PP Make clay tiles inspired by William Morris’s love of the magnificent peacock.

10-11am (repeated 1-2.30pm). FREE but booking is essential.

Tel: 020 8496 4390 or email wmg.bookings@walthamforest.gov.uk www.wmgallery.org.uk Lick The Pencil: Young People’s One-to-One Creative Writing Surgery Walthamstow Library, High Street E17 7JN Have a poem or story that you would like to improve? Book a session for feedback and advice from an active local writer (Ages 7-18). FREE. 2-5.15pm.

Reserve your place www.wflibraries. eventbrite.com, visit the library or 020 8496 3000

Friday 11 Open Mic night The Hornbeam Café, 458 Hoe Street E17 9AH Experience local & talented performers, a supportive audience, drinks and snacks. Anyone is welcome to grace our intimate stage. Doors open at 7.30pm and music starts at 8.15. FREE, though donations appreciated.

Andy 07940260558, andythemirror@ gmail.com

Saturday 12 Jewellery Making Taster Beyond Beading, 124 Farnan Avenue E17 4NH Make earrings or pendant with wire & beads, materials included, other workshops available. 10-11am. £10 Booking essential. www.beyondbeading.co.uk or Birgit on 07910251629 Village Plant & Seed Swap & Planting Workshop Meet at Village Square on corner of Orford and Eden Roads Meet at the Village Square with your plants, terracotta pots and seeds and swap them for something different!

Children’s workshop sowing sunflower seeds provided by the RHS for the 50th anniversary of Britain in Bloom. 11am2pm. FREE. Helen Lerner 0781 404 2499 or helen@walthamstowvillage.net

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LESSONS in the village.

Paul Ibberson Dip.TcL LTcL ALcM Beginners welcome.

Enhanced DBS checked Tel:

07801 736873

Paul Ibberson, 5 Merton Rd, Walthamstow E17 9DE coosticks@ntlworld.com

Slow Art Day Vestry House Museum, Vestry Road E17 9NH Take part in our Slow Art Day celebration and enjoy the Museum’s collections slowly. Our team of volunteers invites you to look at the collection and discuss your ideas over lunch. 11am-2pm. FREE but booking required.

Ines Pina 020 8496 4391 vhm.enquiries@walthamforest.gov.uk http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/pages/ services/vhm.aspx Mill Mosaic Spring Celebration The Mill, 7-11 Coppermill Lane E17 7HA Fun for all the family – A special guest will unveil the garden mosaic mural, created by The Mill community.

Children’s craft activities, live music by The Fabulous Alcachofas. Homemade cakes and knits for sale. 1-4pm. FREE. 020 85213211 info@themill-coppermill.org http://themill-coppermill.org/ The Higham Hill Country Club The Warrant Officer, 318 Higham Hill Road E17 5RG A broad take on the Country genre featuring local talent and special guests.

8pm. FREE. www.thewarrantofficerpub.com/countryclub.html

Sunday 13 Walthamstow Family Bike Club Meet 1pm outside the Ancient House Orford Rd/Church Lane junction, E17.

A relaxed and sociable ride around open spaces and cafes in and around Waltham Forest. 1-5pm. FREE. Paul 020 8520 0648, paul.gasson@gmail.com Psychic Sense Holistic Therapies Orford House Social Club, 73 Orford Road E17 9QR Medium’s tarot and angel card readings, palmistry, reiki astrology, stalls selling crystals books, arts and crafts, food and drinks. 12-5.30pm. £3/ conc £2.

Keith 07961 952 031 The Musical Aquarium The Warrant Officer, 318 Higham Hill Road E17 5RG Come and join Jerome and Lindsay who will be diving into the tank, and playing their own eclectic brand of music for your Sunday lunchtime listing pleasure!

1pm-4pm. FREE. 07931507760 jerome@jeromelanderson.com http://www.jeromelanderson.com/

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To enter simply drop a photo of your child into the Toy Library with the following details: Name of child Date of birth Name of Parent / Guardian Contact number and email address The Walthamstow Toy Library and Play Centre Comely Bank Community Clinic 46 Ravenswood Road London E17 9LY www.walthamstowtoylibrary.org Registered Charity Number: 270746

The winners will be drawn at random on 5th May and must be available to attend the May Fair on 11th May between 1pm and 2pm, where they will receive their prize and take part in the crowning ceremony and photo shoot. Full terms and conditions are available on our website www.walthamstowtoylibrary.org. Good Luck!

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Sunday 13 continued Moving Pictures Vestry House Museum, Vestry Road E17 9NH Join Mica Benjamin to create your own Victorian Zoetrope, a popular parlour pastime. Draw a simple image sequence on strip and whirl around in a drum to see it come to life. 1pm-4pm. FREE. 020 8496 4391 www.walthamforest.gov.uk/vestry-house E17 Designers Market The Asian Centre, 18a Orford Road E17 9LN A wide choice of diverse, high quality products – a great shopping experience that crosses boundaries between church bazaars and design fairs. 2-6pm. £2 entry- a free drink, music and goody bag prize draw! Disabled access, but not much room for buggies! contact@e17designers.co.uk http://e17designers.co.uk Rita Hosking at Walthamstow Folk Club Ye Olde Rose Theatre, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA From Northern California, Rita sings of forest fires, culture clash, demolition derbies, the working class and hope. Rita moves audiences around the globe with her stories in song and doubly sweet and sinewy voice. 7pm-10pm. £7.

Advance tickets available online, more info at www.walthamstowfolk.co.uk

Monday 14 Become a Summer Reading Challenge Champion! Walthamstow Library, High Street E17 7JN (Ages 13-16) Young volunteers needed to give some time during July and August to help support children’s reading. Have fun, make friends, gain valuable skills! FREE. 11am-12.30pm.

Reserve your place www.wflibraries. eventbrite.com, visit the library or 020 8496 3000 Can You Crack the Spy Code?

Wood Street Library, Forest Road E17 4AA Crack the German spy code and try to survive on rations in this interactive workshop bringing the world of the solder to life! (Ages 10-12) FREE. 2-3pm.

Reserve your place www.wflibraries. eventbrite.com, visit the library or 020 8496 3000 Welcome to the World of Tracy Beaker… Higham Hill Library, North Countess Road E17 5HS New location all other details as Monday 7.

Music quiz with Tricky Ric The Nag’s Head, 9 Orford Road E17 9LP Let’s get quizzical with this fabulous music quiz. 7.30pm. Entry is £1 and the winners take the pot.

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Stow Tellers –The Walthamstow Storytelling Club Welcome Centre,

by St Mary’s Church, 8 Church End, E17 9RJ This month our guest teller is the incomparable London storyteller, Sarah Rundle. With sharp wit and humour, she tells ‘The Poorest Hee’, about the struggle for the freedom of the Press and for the vote in the turbulent times of the English Civil War. £5(£4 for concessions). 7.30-9.30pm. stowtellers@yahoo.co.uk or 07837 308703.

Tuesday 15 Easter Egg Hunt Community Room in the Aveling Centre Lloyd Park E17 4PP Join us for a family Easter egg hunt. Solve the clues to win chocolaty prizes! 10am1pm. FREE. For more info or to book Rachel on 07787193981 or r.hoyes@tcv.org.uk 30+ Gay and Bisexual Men’s Social Network ELOP Centre, 56-60 Grove Road Walthamstow E17 9BN A space to meet each other, share experiences and socialise in a safe and welcoming environment away from the scene. 7-9.30pm. £2.

02085093898 or e-mail info@elop.org

Thursday 17 Lloyd Park Volunteer Gardening Meet at the William Morris Garden (near the Forest Road gate) Details as Thursday 3.

Private Peaceful: Story Telling Performance Higham Hill Library, North Countess Road E17 5HS New location all other details as Wednesday 9.

Something for the Weekend!

Wild Card Brewery, Unit 7, Ravenswood Industrial Estate, Shernhall Street E17 9HQ Kick off your Easter weekend with DJ Jerome Anderson at Walthamstow’s very own Wild Card Brewery, playing a musical mash up for your listening pleasure. 8pm-11pm. FREE. 07931507760 jerome@jeromelanderson.com http://www.jeromelanderson.com/ Los Otros at The Vic The Victoria, 188 Hoe Street E17 4QH Enjoy the mellow sounds of jazz standards with Los Otros at The Victoria.

Who will be our mystery guests this time? 9-11pm. FREE. 07801756863 juliajubilada@gmail.com https://sites.google.com/site/ losotrosjazz/home

Saturday 19 Easter Egg Trail Vestry House Museum, Vestry Road E17 9NH Pick up our popular Easter trail to complete around the Museum and collect a free chocolate egg as your reward! 10am-5pm. FREE drop-in event.

020 8496 4391 www.walthamforest.gov.uk/vestry-house Easter Arts and Cracking Crafts!

Walthamstow Library, High Street E17 7JN Higham Hill Library, North Countess Road E17 5HS Wood Street Library, Forest Road E17 4AA Channel your inner Easter Bunny and get creative with spring arts and crafts for families to enjoy. FREE. 2-3:30pm.

Reserve your place www.wflibraries. eventbrite.com, visit the library or 020 8496 3000

Easter Sunday Music Workshop – Higham Hill Guitar Orchestra The Warrant Officer, 318 Higham Hill Road E17 5RG Looking to form an ensemble of electric, bass and acoustic guitars. All abilities welcome from the absolute beginner to the established genius. 4-7pm. FREE. www.thewarrantofficerpub.com/guitarorchestra.html Jazz At The Bell The Bell, 617 Forest Rd E17 4NE Live jazz and grooves featuring some of London’s finest jazz musicians. A relaxed atmosphere with excellent music perfect for a Sunday evening. 8pm.

Twitter @JazzatTheBell

Bank Holiday Monday Bumper Bank Holiday Spin-aDisc The Nag’s Head, 9 Orford Road E17 9LP With our very own Auntie Maureen. You bring the records Auntie will spin them.

From 5pm. FREE.

Opening Doors at ELOP ELOP Centre, 56-60 Grove Road Walthamstow E17 9BN Monthly social group for lesbian, gay, bisexual & trans community members aged 50+ in partnership with Opening Doors London. 3pm-5pm. £2.

02085093898 or e-mail info@elop.org

Tuesday 22 18-30 Gay & Bisexual Men’s Social Network ELOP Centre, 56-60 Grove Road Walthamstow E17 9BN Details as Tuesday .

Wednesday 23 E17 Puppet Project presents: In the Shadow of the War Walthamstow Library, High Street E17 7JN Create your own World War 1 puppets and props, try your hand at puppeteering as you get the chance to project them to an audience. FREE. 4-6pm.

Reserve your place www.wflibraries. eventbrite.com, visit the library or 020 8496 3000 Book Gifting Walthamstow Town Square E17 7JN We will be gifting copies of World Book Night titles. If you’ve signed up to the Waltham Forest book-giving army, feel free to join us. FREE. 6.15-7.15pm.

Reserve your place www.wflibraries. eventbrite.com, visit the library or 020 8496 3000 My Dear I wanted to Tell You: Reading Group Experience Walthamstow Library, High Street E17 7JN A get together for all Waltham Forest Reading Groups, book lovers and WW1 enthusiasts! An evening of show & tell, collective discussion and readings.

FREE. 7.30-9pm.

Reserve your place www.wflibraries. eventbrite.com, visit the library or 020 8496 3000

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Forgotten Street Names of Walthamstow Where would you find?

INKS GREEN LANE

Clue: Also previously known as Green Lane (1368) and later Jack’s Lane...Led from Chingford to Hale End, and then towards Wood Street and Whipps Cross. For the answer see foot of page. www.archangelheritage.co.uk

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Stow Film Lounge presents The Great Beauty (2013, Cert 15) Orford House Social Club, 73 Orford Road E17 9QR Oscar-winning, dazzlingly ambitious, beautifully filmed, and thoroughly enthralling, The Great Beauty offers virtuoso filmmaking from writer/ director Paolo Sorrentino. Doors open 7.45pm, Film 8.30pm, Late Bar, close midnight. Tickets: £8/£6 conc, ticket + food £13.50 Tickets: www.stowfilmlounge.com or on the door. 07910 643987

Saturday 26 Stow Kids’ Film Lounge presents Cloudy with A Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013, Cert U) Orford House Social Club, 73 Orford Road E17 9QR Flint Lockwood now works at The Live Corp Company for his idol Chester V. But he’s forced to leave his post when he learns that his most infamous machine is still operational and is churning out menacing food-animal hybrids. Doors open 10.30am, Activity session, Film 11.00am, Close 1pm.

Tickets: £5.50 child, £4 acc adult, Under 2’s free.

Tickets available online at www. stowfilmlounge.com or on the door.

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St George’s Day Celebration The Warrant Officer, 318 Higham Hill Road E17 5RG Live music and the odd surprise. 8pm.

FREE.

Eat or Heat’s Food Bank Friday Various donation stations including The Mill, Hornbeam Cafe, Rose & Crown Please donate a tin of food or bag of dried goods and help provide emergency support to members of the community.

For more information and a complete list of donation stations, visit www. eatorheat.org

Morton Valance / Tout What’s Cookin’ @ Leytonstone Exservicemens Club, 2 Harvey Road E11 3DB Sublime moody electronic country duetting and late night bar-room melancholy, with a touch of indie sweetness, from the Nancy Sinantra & Lee Hazlewood / Handsome Family influenced Morton Valence. FREE. Voluntary collection taken. 8pm-11pm 07904 210218 ramblinsteve@whatscookin.co.uk http://whatscookin.co.uk

Thursday 24 Wine tasting Upstairs in Madam La Zongas at The Nag’s Head, 9 Orford Road E17 9LP Tasting wines from around the world with Sean Pines. 7.30pm. Prices vary £12-16.

For booking and prices please contact sean on seanpic@aol.com

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Kids Kitchen The Hornbeam Café, 458 Hoe Street E17 9AH We all cook a fresh healthy lunch together with our children (under 5s), while singing songs, playing and washing up, and there is also lovely café food (including cake!) available for us bigger kids too at lunchtime. 10-12am. £6 (£4 concession) Includes lunch for your child.

Reserving a place is essential, but you can pay on the day. www.kidskitchenlondon.wordpress.com/ Bakers Arms Book Group The Hornbeam Café, 458 Hoe Street E17 9AH We are an informal and friendly group (sometimes some of us haven’t even read the book!). This month’s book is How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran. Tea, coffee, wine available.

New members welcome, just turn up.

7.30pm. www.hornbeam.org.uk

Waltham Forest Rising monthly meeting Walthamstow Library, High Street E17 7JN April meeting will review actions to be taken for the coming year by this local grass roots organisation committed to eliminating violence against women and girls in Waltham Forest. New members welcome. All women welcome - further details of monthly meetings on website. 11am-12pm. FREE. http://walthamforestrising.wordpress.com/ LETS Join The Hornbeam Café, 458 Hoe Street E17 9AH Find out about Waltham Forest LETS (local exchange trading scheme). If you like the way that people can exchange all kinds of goods and services with one another without the need for money, then you can also join up on the spot.

Members are also welcome to pop by to chat and trade. 10.30-12noon.

For more information here or email info@wflets.org Family Day: Explore and Draw William Morris Gallery, Lloyd Park, Forest Road E17 4PP Discover hidden treasures in the collection with this interactive family trail through the Galleries. 1-4pm. No booking necessary, just drop in.

Tel: 020 8496 4390 or email wmg.bookings@walthamforest.gov.uk www.wmgallery.org.uk

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Spanish group for families Walthamstow Toy Library and Play Centre, Comely Bank Community Clinic, 46 Ravenswood Road E17 9LY All welcome, whether you already speak Spanish or would like your children to learn Spanish and make some new friends. A session for families to meet, play and sing songs in Spanish. 2-4pm.

Toy Library membership of £4 per family applies Eat or Heat Spring Fair & The E List Live St.Marys Welcome Centre, Church End, Walthamstow Village E17 An exciting mix of food, art, vintage homewares & clothing, cafe. Plus the E List Live. Come see how great Walthamstow is. Please bring a tin of food to help stock our food bank. 12am8pm. £1.

E17london@sky.com Weekend Therapies at Stratford Westfield As Nature Intended (Organic Food & Skincare), 16 Fresh Food, Great Eastern Market, Westfield Stratford City E20 1EH FREE therapy taster sessions with Pippa Moye – Reiki Master & Holistic Therapist based in Leytonstone E11. Choose from Reiki, Sekhem or Indian Head Massage.

5-8pm. FREE. Booking 07563 687108 healing@silver-ray.co.uk or just turn up on the day www.silver-ray.co.uk Fork to Fork: Seasonal Supper Club 458 Hoe Street E17 9AH The Hornbeam Cafe invites you to a vegetarian feast with delicious healthy tasty food – locally sown, grown, picked and cooked! The supper club is open from 6.30-10.30pm so you can choose your time to book a table (latest 9pm).

Advance booking is essential. The café can cater for all special dietary requirements. All 3 courses for just £15! www.hornbeam.org.uk Am I missing something? Various venues round Walthamstow E17 011010010111010110 1001101101101011100100010110 1011011010110101110101101011 01011011010110101101101 100111111010100100100 Oh! Gunquit / Cowbell What’s Cookin’ @ Leytonstone Exservicemens Club, 2 Harvey Road E11 3DB Oh! Gunquit perform rumble bop trash rock’n’roll. Tribal tom toms beat wildly and guitars twang, vocals bawl and purr, and a seedy tenor sax wails for an extra slice of exotica. Garage rock’n’roll soul from Cowbell. FREE. Voluntary collection taken. 8pm-11pm 07904 210218 ramblinsteve@whatscookin.co.uk http://whatscookin.co.uk

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Walls of Heartache The Arubar Lounge, 524 Forest Road E17 4NB Northern Soul on Vinyl in an intimate and very friendly setting. 9.00pm2.00am. £5 on the door. wallsofheartache@gmail.com

Sunday 27 Waltham Forest Cycling Campaign Monthly Ride Meet outside Walthamstow Library, High Street E17 7JN at 10am for a 10.15am start.

We have a few routes lined up and usually decide distance and destination on the day according to what people prefer. We ride leisurely suited to the wishes of participants. We usually stay within 30 miles and sometimes considerably shorter. We tend to be back by 3pm and always have a snack stop somewhere. 10am-3pm. Free.

Robert Robert@wfcycling.org.uk A Trip To A Hainault Herb Garden!

Forest Farm Peace Garden, Hazelbrouck Gardens IG6 2XL Join Walthamstow community herbalists Charm & Rasheeqa for a visit to this lovely east London growing space and find out what a medicine garden can be! Includes a tour with on-site herbalist Deborah Syrett. 12pm3pm. FREE. Rasheeqa Ahmad 07784 506 494 rasheeqa@hedgeherbs.org.uk http://www.hedgeherbs.org.uk BeBop Baby The Trades Hall, 17 Hoe Street E17 4SB (entrance in Tower Hamlets Road) Great music from a live band and world class DJ’s spinning classic soul, funk, Afrobeat, jazz and more. Music, cocktails, dancing, nobody puts baby in a corner... 1pm-4pm. £4.

Hannah, Mandy, Ben 07813156140 bebopbabydance@gmail.com https://www.bebop-baby.co.uk The Musical Aquarium The Warrant Officer, 318 Higham Hill Road E17 5RG For details see Sunday 13.

New afternoon tea group for 50+ lesbian, gay, bisexual & trans people ELOP Centre, 56-60 Grove Road Walthamstow E17 9BN A space to meet others, share experiences and socialise in a safe and welcoming environment. 2.30-4.30pm. £2.

02085093898 or e-mail info@elop.org Am I missing something from my life? Various venues round Walthamstow E17 Art Music Film Dance Theatre Comedy Books/Poetry/Literature Sport Food Pop up restaurants, wine tasting etc) Family Classes Shopping Event (eg E17 Designers etc) Gardens and walks (eg. Open Gardens, history walks etc.)

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Pete Coe at Walthamstow Folk Ye Olde Rose Theatre, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA The gold standard folk club guest.

With bouzouki, mountain dulcimer, banjo and melodeon Pete is sometimes called The One Man Folk Industy. He sings, plays & step dances. Great music, great playing, great bloke. 7-10pm. £7.

Advance tickets available online, more info at www.walthamstowfolk.co.uk

Monday 28 Art for Adults: WW1 Create a Card Higham Hill Library, North Countess Road, Walthamstow, E17 5HS Create a card to keep or send to a loved one using styles of the day and themes from the period. FREE. 1-3pm.

Reserve your place www.wflibraries. eventbrite.com, visit the library or 020 8496 3000 Music quiz with Tricky Ric The Nag’s Head, 9 Orford Road E17 9LP Let’s get quizzical with this fabulous music quiz. 7.30pm. Entry is £1 and the winners take the pot.

Charleston Workshop for Beginners The Trades Hall, 17 Hoe Street E17 4SB (entrance in Tower Hamlets Road) This fun workshop will run through basic Charleston moves, such as the Black Bottom, Granny’s Kneecaps, and On The Spot Charleston. You do not need a partner to attend, just bring your dancing shoes! 7.30-8.30pm. £10.

More info www.jeromelanderson.com

Wednesday 30 Hugh Pascall Quintet at E17 Jazz Orford Road Social Club, Orford Road E17 Trumpet and flugelhorn soloist Hugh Pascall graduated from the Royal Academy of Music and the Paris Conservatoire, as a Sir Elton John Scholar and Scott-Fulbritzer Jazz Prize winner. Hugh’s quintet often incorporates iconic solos of the 50s and 60s greats into their lively, jubilant performancesfor the joy of playing straight-ahead jazz. 8.30pm. £10 (concessions £7). e17jazz.com/whatson/

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First one I’d ever seen in our North East London garden uproad from the marshes turned from a tit or what I thought could be a sparrow by the miracle of lenses to a tailflash of yellow and a mask of red feeding on the seeds we’d brought from Asda or from Sainsbury’s You wouldn’t and you can’t believe that something like this could happen here or happen now And back in time before the war on Sandy Lane by Bombcrater Pond Alliot Verdon Roe teased a plane across the marshes wings held together with paper soaked in oil See. There’s proof on a plaque underneath the viaduct where finches feast on thistles where the railway meets the Lee Paul McGrane is co-founder of Forest Poets. “Finding out that the first all-British aeroplane was flown on Walthamstow Marshes was mind-boggling. Spotting a goldfinch in our teeny weeny garden in Walthamstow? There just had to be a poem in there somewhere. Top tip from my girlfriend: Don’t know your Lea from your Lee? ‘A’ is the first letter in the alphabet – so Lea is the correct spelling for the river as it was there before the Lee Navigation. Lesson over.”

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Trent Miller & The Skeleton Jive / Sugar Magnolia What’s Cookin’ @ Leytonstone Ex-servicemens Club, 2 Harvey Road E11 3DB Country & folk roots plus a more modern, electric oriented sound strongly influenced by legendary 80s bands like Gun Club and Thin White Rope from Italian born Trent Miller.

FREE. Voluntary collection taken.

8pm-11pm 07904 210218 ramblinsteve@whatscookin.co.uk http://whatscookin.co.uk

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Every week/Whole month 3 April – 25 April Exhibition: The Wisdom Well Walthamstow Library, High Street E17 7JN A photographic exhibition resulting from the Wisdom Well; a project designed to explore new methods of communication within the community!

Come along and be inspired! Mon- Fri: 9am-7pm, Sat: 9am-6pm, Sun: 124pm FREE. 3 April – 24 May “Face Value” The Mill, 7-11 Coppermill Lane E17 7HA Self-portraits and studies of family, friends or strangers. A mixed exhibition of paintings, photographs, prints, drawings and word pictures. FREE. TuesThurs 10am-7pm. Fri-Sat 10am-6pm.

Sun 11am-2pm www.themill-coppermill.org mo@themill-coppermill.org 3 – 30 April Save Lea Marshes Photo Exhibition WaterWorks Centre, Lammas Road (just off Lea Bridge Road), Leyton E10 7QB See the overall winner of the SLM 2014 photo competition entitled ‘What I Love About the Marshes’ and the eleven other photos that have been chosen to feature in the 2015 SLM calendar and the runners-up. FREE. http://www.saveleamarshes.org.uk/ Until 18 May Unseen Waltham Forest Vestry House Museum, Vestry Road E17 9NH Exhibition by Walthamstow and District Photographic Society – think hidden locations, quirky viewpoints and alternative takes on the local landscape.

Wed-Sun 10am-5pm.

020 8496 4391 www.walthamforest.gov.uk/vestry-house 23 April – 9 May Elly’s Gallery Hoe Street Central, 137 Hoe Street, Walthamstow, E17 4RT A contemporary art exhibition by one of Walthamstows most experienced visual artists, Elly Davies. Landscapes, still life, flora, collages, abstract paintings. FREE. Wed-Sun 12am-5pm.

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3-26 March Nadiya Tokarska / Paintings of London Tokarska Gallery, 163 Forest Road E17 6HE In her work, Nadiya sees London as a soulful essence that takes on different dimensions and identities, expressed through the subtle balance of intensity, vibrancy and dynamics of her paintings.

FREE. Thurs-Sat, 12-7pm. www.tokarskagallery.co.uk Until 2 April Healthwatch Waltham Forest Pop-up shop Hoe Street Central, 137 Hoe Street, Walthamstow, E17 4RT Activities for all the family with a health and social care flavour: ‘test your health’, prize draws, knitting, arts and crafts, and much more… 10-5pm.

Different activities on different days.

For more details www.healthwatchwalthamforest.co.uk Mondays and Thursdays Bridge Club night Quaker meeting House, 1a Jewel Rd E17 4QU We play duplicate bridge twice a week.

A host is available on Monday nights.

7.30-10 pm. £3 for members, £4 for non-members Further info contact Peter Rogers on garfield2001@btinternet.com or 07980712128 Saturdays The Beulah Road Market 52/54 Beulah Road E17 9LQ “Abstract” & “Fox & Bear” are thrilled to announce the launch of a NEW outdoor market in Walthamstow Village.

Every Saturday we will showcase local talents from jewellery designers to ceramic artists, from print makers to bespoke furniture by “Bella Quail” alongside street British food by “Bestowed Kitchen”. 11am-4pm.

Sundays Drop-in crochet classes Abstract, 54 Beulah Road E17 9LQ Pop in to our cosy shop and learn the craft of crochet. A bit of patience is all that’s needed! 10-12pm. FREE. alessandrarigillo@googlemail.com

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Thursdays Acoustic Showcase at The Village The Village Pub, 31 Orford Road E17 9NL Come and enjoy performances from London-based musicians playing acoustic sets of original music and covers in the warm and friendly atmosphere of the Village Pub. FREE. 7.45pm. gabriel4music@gmail.com for details or if interested in performing a set!

Wednesdays Youth Out East ELOP Centre, 56-60 Grove Road Walthamstow E17 9BN LGB&T social group for people aged 13-21 who are LGBT or questioning their sexuality. A space for you to be yourself, meet new people and share experiences in a supportive environment. 6-9pm. £1.

02085093898 or e-mail youth@elop.org Saturdays (term time) Dads R Us Walthamstow West Children’s Centre, 215 Queens Road E17 8PJ Give Mum a break and enjoy some quality fun time with your child or children. Choice of structured and unstructured play including music, arts and crafts, woodwork, soft play and more… NB At least one child should be under 5. 10.30am-12.30 pm. £2 per family.

Thursdays Parents, Babies & Toddlers ELOP Centre, 56-60 Grove Road Walthamstow E17 9BN Weekly social group for lesbian, gay, bisexual & trans parents and carers with bumps, babies and toddlers. With plenty of activities for the little ones and a chance to share stories & build better networks for the adults. 10:30am12:30pm. £2.50 & Kids Free!

02085093898 or e-mail info@elop.org Saturdays OrganicLea market stall The Hornbeam Café, 458 Hoe Street E17 9AH The market stall sells organic and local sustainably grown fruit and vegetables, homemade bread, jams and preserves.

Healthy Start vouchers can be used.

10am-3pm. www.hornbeam.org.uk Sundays Walthamstow Farmers’ Market Top of the High St by town square Fresh vegetables & salads, fruit in season, unpasteurised milk, cheese & dairy, artisan bread & cakes, juice, free range eggs, meat & poultry, herbs, locally made preserves & honey, plants and lots more. 10am-2pm www.lfm.org.uk

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Classes/Courses Mondays Life drawing Upstairs in Madam La Zongas at The Nag’s Head, 9 Orford Road E17 9LP Come and join the lovely Walthamstow life drawing class. 7.30pm. £8.50. walthamstowlifedrawing@googlemail.com Tuesdays and Wednesdays Life Drawing Class with Frank Gambino Tokarska Gallery, 163 Forest Road E17 6HE (Note no under 16s ) Drawing from a live model. Beginners and accomplished artists are all welcome. Materials are provided and refreshments served during the class break. 6.30-9.30pm. £12. Materials provided.

To book email: info@tokarskagallery. co.uk ref: Life Drawing Class www.tokarskagallery.co.uk

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PV Friday 2nd May 6.30 – 9.30 pm Pictorem Gallery 383 Hoe St Bakers Arms Walthamstow E17 3AP

Mondays Walthamstow & District Photographic Society Greenleaf Baptist Church Hall, 4 Greenleaf Road E17 6QQ For those new to photography, and those wishing to improve their skills.

8pm. info@wdps.org www.wdps.org Beginning April 2014 Beginners Computer Classes for Older Adults Various in the borough Ten week beginner computer course covering all aspects of getting started with using a computer, the internet, email and basic word processing.

Various. 20 hour course costs £1.99 per hour.

Contact Age UK Waltham Forest on 02085585512 or email info@ ageukwalthamforest.org.uk Mondays Waltham Forest Community Choir St Mary’s Church, Church Hill E17 9RJ A friendly choir with a wide-ranging repertoire, from Faure to Folk via Gospel, African and Pop Classics. Open to those living or working in Waltham Forest.

New members welcome anytime, particularly tenor voices. No audition required. Termly subscription payable.

Summer Term commences 28th April.

Email Info@singwithus.net or phone 07954 740745 for more information.

Thursdays The Singing Room Choir E17 Side Hall, St Gabriel’s Family Centre, Havant Rd E17 3JF The Singing Room Choir welcomes new singers. We have around 30 members, regular performances and fantastic songs to sing! Free first session then £7 per session for a 10 week block booked in advance. 7.30-9.15pm.

Contact Anna on 07931372996 or annamusicmakers@gmail.com for further details or just turn up!

Mondays and Wednesdays Banjo Classes Studio Office, Quaker Meeting House, 1a Jewel Road E17 4QU Whether you are a complete beginner or have some banjo playing experience, you can join in Dick Smith’s banjo lessons. Dick has been teaching Bluegrass banjo lessons for more than 15 years. 6pm-7pm. £12.50. 20% discount for a term booked in advance.

For further info call Dick Smith 07903 419 691 or email dickbanjosmith@ gmail.com www.banjosmith.co.uk Wednesday mornings (term time) Atty’s Musical Steps - Baby Band / Toddler Troupe Salvation Army, 434 Forest Road E17 4PY Fun-packed, educational and inspirational music classes for little ones - pick up some great ideas for songs, rhymes and activities to make music at home. Trial class Baby Band £4.50 (ages 4m-2y, 30 mins), Toddler Troupe £5.00 (ages 18m-3y, 40 mins).

Price per class when enrolling £4.00 (BB) £4.50 (TT).

Enrol termly or book a trial class.

Contact Atty on 07950 526662 or atty.cronin@musicalsteps.co.uk to book your place and for more info.

Saturdays E17 Junior Guitar Club Hornbeam Centre, 458 Hoe Street E17 9AH Guitar playing fun for children of all abilities. Ages 7 and upwards. Different levels & times. Pay £8 for a taster session, then £48 for a half-term of six lessons 30 minutes each.

Christian Karlsson mob. 07958 471 083, chris@stunningmusic.com www.stunningmusic.com Tuesday mornings (term time) Atty’s Musical Steps - Toddler Troupe The Mill, 7-11 Coppermill Lane E17 7HA Fun-packed, educational and inspirational music classes for little ones - pick up some great ideas for songs, rhymes and activities to make music at home. Trial class £5.00 / £4.50 per class when enrolling. Ages 18m-3y, 40 mins. Enrol termly or book a trial class.

Contact Atty on 07950 526662 or atty.cronin@musicalsteps.co.uk to book your place and for more info.

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Booking essential, trial session £5.50 fiona.bongalong@gmail.com 07811460282 Saturdays Spanish For Toddlers Mission Grove School, Mission Grove Road E17 7EJ Suitable for 3-6 year olds. Learning Spanish in a fun and relaxed environment. Singing and games.

Taught by a native Spanish speaking tutor. New course starts Saturday 26th April. 10.30-11am. £65 per term for ten week course. £5 registration fee.

Priority bookings on 07568 157028 or rachelbettelley@hotmail.com

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Saturdays Spanish For Children Mission Grove School, Mission Grove Road E17 7EJ Suitable for 5-8 year olds. Learning Spanish in a fun and relaxed environment. Taught by a native Spanish speaking tutor. New course starts Saturday 26th April. 11-12pm. £70 per term for ten week course. £5 registration fee.

Priority bookings on 07568 157028 or rachelbettelley@hotmail.com Saturdays French For Children Mission Grove School, Mission Grove Road E17 7EJ Suitable for 4-8 year olds. Learning French in a fun and relaxed environment. Games, dance, Cooking.

One hour class. Taught by a native French speaking tutor. New course starts Saturday 26th April. 12.151.15pm. £70 per term for ten week course. £5 registration fee.

Priority bookings on 07568 157028 or rachelbettelley@hotmail.com Thursdays Drop in Art Club The Mill, 7-11 Coppermill Lane E17 7HA Have fun making pictures and collages for The Mill or to take home. 3.305pm. £2 donation welcome, reduction for families. www.themill-coppermill.org mo@themill-coppermill.org

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Tuesday, Thursdays and Saturdays (except 5 April) Magic Box story telling/role play Mothers Hub 133 Wood Street E17 3LX Magic Box invites 18m-4year olds to join in with themed adventures through interactive story telling. 10am (Tues and Thurs) and 4pm (Tues only) lasting 30-40mins. Time of Saturdays 10.30. £4 per child, £6 for 2. drop in sessions, no need to book though space in limited so come early.

Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays Children Art Class Tokarska Gallery, 163 Forest Road E17 6HE The classes are conducted in the safe environment of the gallery with each lesson focusing on different materials: painting, drawing, use of pastels and charcoals. Suitable for youngsters 8-15. £6. Materials provided.

Thursday 4.15-5.45pm, Friday 5-6.30pm, Saturday 1-2.30pm.

To book email: info@tokarskagallery. co.uk ref: Children Art Lessons www.tokarskagallery.co.uk Fridays Little Musical Adventures Mothers Hub 133 Wood Street E17 3LX ‘Little Musical Adventures’ is a brand new, exciting concept, which will indirectly educate your little one in musicality and key skills, using a variety of genres from classical to popular music. 10.30-11.15am. £4.50 per child, drop in sessions, no need to book though space in limited so come early.

Wednesdays Walthamstow Sports Hub Walthamstow Academy, Billet Road E17 5DP Multi-sports night for 12-18 year-olds including badminton, table tennis, football & street dance. 5-7pm. £1 for the evening.

Mondays Jacky’s Fitsteps - Strictly Fun! The Asian Centre, 18a Orford Road E17 9LN FitSteps® is formulated by Strictly Come Dancing’s Ian Waite & Natalie Lowe along with Mark Foster. It’s ideal for toning, building muscle strength, and slimming down. You do not need a partner. Its a FITNESS class. 7.308.30pm. £6 or 4 classes for £20. http://fan.fitsteps.co.uk/find-a-class/ listing/jackys-fitsteps 07715 421349 or jacjuke@aol.com Tuesdays and Wednesdays Pilates Upstairs in Madam La Zongas at The Nag’s Head, 9 Orford Road E17 9LP £12 drop in. £55 for six lessons.

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Sundays Handstand/tumbling class Gravity Circus Centre, Unit 61, Staffa Road/ Argall Avenue E10 7QZ Join our fabulous handstand/tumbling class and get 10% off on your first session! Class is for mixed levels beginners to advanced and suitable from age 7 - 99. 12-2pm. Cost £15 drop in/£13.50 when buying six classes.

Please book in advance via email address - booking@gravitycircuscentre. com or 07885 462 436 www.gravitycircuscentre.com

Sundays, 27 April until 1 June Forest Fitness: Natural Strength Meet outside the Peterhouse Centre, 122 Forest Rise, Upper Walthamstow E17 3PW This programme will develop complete whole-body strength, working with the best piece of fitness equipment we all own, the human body. Build total strength & fitness as we head into summer in the heart of the forest.

10am. £30 for the 6 week programme.

Michael 07813 104 384 or forestfitnessuk@gmail.com

Tuesdays Pastures Doorstep Club Pastures Youth Club, 15 Davis Lane, Leytonstone, E11 3DR Netball sessions for those aged 12+ all ability. 4.30-6pm. £3.

Saturdays Tennis Coaching Walthamstow Tennis Club, 48a Greenway Avenue E17 3QN Free tennis coaching with new memberships. 10-11am. £10 per class, or £45 for 5 classes (valid 8 weeks). tennis@walthamstowsportsclub.co.uk www.walthamstowsportsclub.co.uk/

Wednesdays Pastures Doorstep Club Pastures Youth Club, 15 Davis Lane, Leytonstone, E11 3DR Basketball sessions for those aged 12+ all ability. Weds. 4.30-6pm. £3.

Tuesdays Blackhorse and Standard Morris Dancers St Gabriel’s Family Centre, Havant Road E17 3JF A fun and friendly way of keeping fit whilst learning Women’s Events marked traditional kid friendly Morris dancing. No experience necessary. Do you play a folk instrument? Then come and be part of our Morris Band. (Male or female musicians are welcome.) 8-10pm. First term free, then £25/term.

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FREE. 10.45am Gareth 02085338022 gg-waltham-forest@tcv.org.uk Thursdays Yoga Me Happy Quaker Meeting House, 1a, Jewel Rd E17 4QU Stretch and relax with yoga classes.

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Tuesdays Learn Belly dancing The Asian Centre, 18a Orford Road E17 9LN A great way to help you stay in shape and allow you to express your own personal creativity, enjoyed by many people around the world and for all ages.

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Saturdays Iyengar yoga class St Andrew’s Church, St Andrew’s Road E17 6AR The practice of Iyengar yoga is suitable for all regardless of flexibility and age.

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Link4Growth has come to Waltham Forest!

The national Community & Business networking organisation opened its doors on March 6th at GOALS in Morrison Way, Chingford.

Currently operating in 60 venues around Britain, Link4Growth is helping to build and re-build communities and local business.

Everyone who lives, works or plays in or around Waltham Forest is welcome to freely participate.

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“ Grab your towel we’re off to the High Street” Bill Bayliss tells of the time when Walthamstow High Street was the place to take a swim or scrub your back Sanitary conditions in towns in the 19th century In 1844, a Royal Commission into the Sanitary State of Large Towns and Populous Districts highlighted growing dangers in urban areas. Only six of the fifty large towns were considered Walthamstow Baths to the right of the library to have ‘good’ water supply and many were classed as ‘impure’. It identified the absence of cheap baths and a lack of public laundry facilities as an impediment to better health. This situation left the poor to clean themselves and their clothes as best they could within their own crowded houses.

As a result of growing public concern, The Public Baths and Wash Houses Act of 1846 allowed local parishes in the UK to raise money to provide public baths and laundries. In view of the rapidly expanding urban population who were often living in most insanitary conditions, bath-houses were then seen as essential public services. Cholera epidemics were seen frequently in many towns in the1830s. This situation became a major problem for Walthamstow, where the population had grown from 4,959 in 1851 to 96,720 in 1901.

Amongst other issues, this had created massive problems with drainage of waste effluents from the many thousands of new properties that had been erected on roads that lacked proper sewer facilities. This situation was to remain a problem for many years until it was resolved in 1928 when Walthamstow’s sewerage system was linked to London.

Personal hygiene In 1900, only a few rich people had bathrooms. When the Finsbury Borough Council in London carried out a survey of local households in 1928, it was discovered that only 4% had baths of their own. It wasn’t until after World War II that houses began to be routinely built with their own bathrooms and laundry sinks. In 1900, the bathtub was a new status symbol of the upwardly mobile, and its proper use was still an object of speculation. Books advised no more than one hot bath per week, since no one was sure if they were bad for health. In many homes, bath water was heated on the kitchen’s coal-fired range and ferried upstairs jug by jug. Bathing in general was a very important Victorian value given their obsession with personal hygiene, and they used soaps made of animal fat and vegetable oils.

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Generally adults didn’t have baths, instead they had a good wash down at the scullery sink. Bath time happened once a week, when mothers would heat enough water in pots and kettles on the range or fill the copper boiler in the scullery with water, then light the copper fire. Once the water was hot, they had to ladle it into a bucket and carry it to the bath. The full buckets were heavy and it was all too easy to spill the hot water and scald oneself.

The family would bathe in it one by one in front of the fire, using the same water. It was warm but not very private. The tin bath would have been bought from the ironmongers and had two handles to make it convenient to carry. It would often be hung from a hook on an outside wall by the scullery beside the mangle.

The Walthamstow Swimming Pool & Slipper Baths In what was a gradual process, between 1845 and 1915, 345 public baths and 69 washhouses were built in Britain. These were all maintained by a public authority, with most towns over 50,000 having some form of bathing facility. One of these was in Walthamstow.

In 1900, the magnificent swimming pool and slipper bath building designed by architect William Dunfield in 1896 was opened at the top of the High Street. It was located close to the newly built George Monoux school that was opened in 1889 (In 1909, the Walthamstow Central Library was created beside it after philanthropist Andrew Carnegie donated money for a large house to be converted into an important public library by adding a new frontage to the building).

From its opening, the swimming pool and baths were hugely popular and used extensively by local people. Previously, apart from the River Lea and Epping Forest ponds, the only public place to swim had been at Low Hall in the summers of 1889 and 1890 where a large sewerage tank had been cleaned and filled so that it could be used for public swimming.

In addition to its use as a swimming pool. Walthamstow Baths Hall was also used as an entertainment centre and a public meeting place.

From 1900 until around 1912 even films were shown. For seven years of this period they were shown by Edward Turner, the founder of Britain’s first film rental company.

There were also Saturday night shows at the Baths with Pierrot troops under the management of Eric Lane.

Winston Churchill’s Car Stoned (but not drug related) Politics were taken seriously and candidates held public meetings at the Baths and the speakers were often heckled. The Baths were the scene of much excitement and sometimes those who could not get in forced the side doors. It was at one such meeting, when Winston Churchill (then a Liberal) and speaking on behalf of Major Crawford, was besieged and his car was stoned at the baths.

The Slipper Baths The term ‘slipper’ bath refers to the shape of the bath which was shaped like a slipper, with a high rising back, designed to keep the water hot for longer and to protect the modesty of the bather – even though they were alone in a cubicle.

Many people remember Walthamstow’s ‘slipper’ baths. Barbara Hemmings recalls “We had no bath so once a week on a Saturday we went to the swimming baths for our bath!”1 Terry Brown writes ‘The Slipper Baths had individual cubicles housing full-size baths, the water operated from the outside by an attendant. They also hired out towels and soap and with your clean clothes under your arm, your ablutions were completed in luxury…’2 Len Hall tells us ‘We did not have a bath at home, so in later years when I discovered what girls were (much later) I used to go to the slipper baths once a week (whether I needed a bath or not) what an experience that was! Later I decided that the baths at Leyton were much better and if you tipped the attendant you could get extra soap etc.’3 The Swimming Pool There are many thousands of Walthamstow children who learnt to swim at Walthamstow Baths. They were taken once a week from their schools for lessons and many took place in swimming galas. Richard Dunn tells us: ‘We were given swimming lessons at Walthamstow baths. They were situated next to the Central Library in the High Street where the ‘square’ is now by Selborne Walk. We were taken by either one of two old motor coaches… Walthamstow baths were not very big, and the changing rooms were cubicles all around the pool. If you left any clothing on the floor, then they would be soaked by the time you got back. There was an attendant who used to roll his own cigarettes, and it was that smell mixed with the smell of chlorine that always sticks in my mind. That smell was Walthamstow baths.’4

but just swimming up and down interminably became pretty boring.

So under the watchful eye of Mr Smith I decided to alternate my lengths with a different stroke ie two lengths breast stroke, two lengths back stroke etc. At the end of the mile as I climbed out of the pool quite exhausted Mr Smith told me I had failed. When I asked why he told me I had not kept to the same stroke. What an absolute -----Why couldn’t he have shouted out to keep to the same stroke! Much later in life I met someone from a different Walthamstow school with equally bad experiences and memories of Mr Smith!’5 Mick Gilbey remembers ‘a set of large permanently closed wooden doors separated a narrow walkway around one end of the swimming pool from the pavement of the High Street. The pavement was always wet at this location as dripping water from the wet feet and bodies of swimmers leaked under the door. Upper galleries with stepped seating ran along both sides of the pool but I never recall seeing the galleries in use. There were no real changing rooms just wooden cubicles with half height doors lining both sides of the pool. The cubicles allowed a view of changing bathers heads and feet. Females and males used the cubicles on different sides of the pool. I think one got about 45 minutes – one hour of swimming time for one’s money and although no tickets were used, our clothes were left in the small changing cubicles so attendants knew if anyone overstayed their time.’6 The Walthamstow High Street Baths were demolished in 1968 after Waltham Forest Council built a running track and ‘state of the art’ new swimming pool on land adjacent to the Chestnuts at the rear of the Town Hall.

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Ron Parker remembers ‘Coming out of swimming at the Walthamstow Baths and crossing the road to Holdstocks the Bakers to buy 2 pennyworth of yesterday’s cakes and rolls to eat on the way back to school.’4 It wasn’t only the bakers that benefited from the swimming bath’s trade. In the early 60’s, with my wife, I ran a Fish & Chip restaurant nearly opposite the baths. There were often swimming galas in the evenings and afterwards we were inundated with hungry customers from the baths wanting bags of chips.

Laura Forrester gives us a fascinating insight into the swimming baths, ‘We were lucky to have school swimming lessons and were taken to the Old Walthamstow Swimming Baths … on a rickety old bus not dissimilar to the St Trinian’s bus, not like the plush coaches of today.

The bench seats were hard stretched leather on steel legs with brown linoleum floors – very uncomfortable. I remember the horrible tyrant Mr Smith with his broom and when you were taking your 25 yards or one length certificate he used to push you away from the edge with his broom whether you were in danger of drowning or not. At the age of 10 there were four of us wanting to swim for our one mile certificate – I can’t remember how many lengths it amounted to now

Walthamstow market April page from Walthamstow 2014 calendar E17 artist and illustrator Emma Scutt will be selling signed original watercolour paintings and mounted prints from her popular Walthamstow 2014 calendar, which depict favourite Walthamstow buildings and places.

The Eat or Heat Spring Fair Saturday 26th April, 12 - 8pm St Mary’s Welcome Centre, Church End E17 13

Architectural historian, Karen Averby uncovers curiosities and stories from Walthamstow’s rich and varied past

Life on Marsh Walthamstow Marshes are a special place for locals, both wildlife and the human variety.

Use of the Marshes is centuries old, with Lammas rights in place until 1934, which allowed free grazing between Lammas and Lady Day and the growing of grass and hay in strips. But the Marshes have also been party to less well-known happenings, from the spectacular to the downright shady.

Perhaps the most glorious was in 1909, when Alliott Verdon Roe made the first allBritish-built powered flight. The tri-plane was constructed in his workshop within the railway arches at the edge of the Marshes, today marked by a commemorative plaque.

The Marshes have also been home to various leisure pursuits.

The severe frosts of the nineteenth century created perfect ice-skating conditions, while travelling fairs occasionally passed through, not always without consequence. In January 1885 a Mr J Whitby objected to a Sunday fair pitching up on marshland he owned, so he rode dramatically on horseback to confront the fairfolk, deliberately destroying tents and a coconut-shy in the process. A magistrate

subsequently ruled that the fairfolk could not claim damages, and ordered them to pay prosecution costs.

Marsh wildlife attracted shooting and poaching. In 1894, a Mr William Harris Cattell of Stoke Newington accidentally fatally shot himself whilst out shooting. In 1899 five men were charged with trapping birds to sell. They protested that they were sportsmen, but the judge countered this, stating that “…if you can afford to pay 10s for the nets for the sake of the sport, you can afford to pay 10s for the enjoyment of the sport” and so fined them 10 shillings each.

Other illegal activities were not uncommon. In January 1866 police were drawn to an upturned orange box and candles amidst crowds of ‘skaters, sliders and watchers,’ where they caught a William Davis embroiled in a gambling racket. In May 1908 fifteen men were caught playing pitch and toss and in August 1911, Samuel Baler, a labourer from Shoreditch pleaded guilty to gambling with bronze coins and dice. Illicit boxing matches include one held in May

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1886 when a well-known young circuit boxer, George Mahoney was charged with illegally engaging in a prize fight, with five others charged with aiding and abetting in 1886.

All were offered bail except for the luckless Mahoney, who also lost the fight.

Today’s Marsh activities are more inclined to involve cycling, jogging, walking and seasonal berry-picking, as well as being the focus for community-based projects such as the fabulous ‘Mural on the Marsh’. Thankfully the Marshes have been protected from gravel extraction and development, and in 1985 were designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest partly due to being one of the last areas of semi-natural marshland in London.

Next time you visit, see if you can identify the site of the anti-invasion trenches dug in 1940, as well as a V2 crater to the south. www.archangelheritage.co.uk

WALTHAMSTOW’S WONDERFUL WOMEN WALK 8 MARCH 2014

In 1910 local women gathered in Cedar’s Avenue, Walthamstow ahead of a protest against those who wanted to deny women the vote. They then marched to Walthamstow town centre where over 100 years ago Sylvia, Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst called for an equal role for women in our country. On 8 March 2014 hundreds of local women helped recreate this picture to inspire a new generation of women from Walthamstow to speak up and get involved in their community and their country. Thank you to the In 1910*, hundreds of suffragettes gathered in Cedars Avenue in Walthamstow. They listened to Sylvia, Christabel and Emmeline Museum of London who provided the original photograph Pankhurst and marched along our roads for an equal role for women in our country. This International Women’s Day, women of all ages are and inspiration for this event. Thank you also to local invited to join together to recreate the above picture and showcase the photographers Nicola Tree and Bronac McNeil who took thewomen of Walthamstow. To honour the suffragettes as well as speak for equality, attendees are invited to march along Hoe Street to contemporary photos on this page as well as Phillipa Milne,up arrive at the start of the International Women’s Day Festival at the Heather Butler, Gia Armstrong and all the volunteers who Walthamstow Assembly Hall on Forest Road, organised by the Waltham Forest Women’s Network. helped organise this event. If you want to support women’s Men and women who share our ambition to celebrate the many talents of leadership projects in Walthamstow please get in touch with our local women are welcome to come along and support the marchers! © Nicola Tree Photography Stella Creasy MP on stella@workingforwalthamstow.org.uk.

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Time to gather in Cedars Avenue for photo: 12:00 hours March to arrive at Assembly Halls: 14:00 hours Banners and badges welcome!

This march has been organised by Stella Creasy, Walthamstow’s MP, with the help of local volunteers. All queries about this event including requests for the educational resource pack should be made to stella@workingforwalthamstow.org.uk or by

The winning photograph, Big Sky Over Ice by Rebecca McLaren

A new show celebrates the Marshes A rolling exhibition of community photography starts its journey around Hackney and Waltham Forest this month.

The exhibition, formed of the winning images from a photo competition run by Save Lea Marshes, begins its journey at the Waterworks Centre, located on Leyton Marshes and then continues on to a range of venues throughout 2014 including the Black Cat Café and Dalston Eastern Curve Garden in Hackney and the Vestry House Museum in Waltham Forest.

The exhibition is formed of winning entries from the photo competition that asked professional and amateur photographers alike to convey the theme ‘What I Love About the Marshes’ Abigail Woodman, of Save Lea Marshes, explains, “We wish to celebrate this amazing green open space, which spans across Waltham Forest and Hackney. As well as being an important habitat to our wildlife, the marshes are also a wonderful place for people to relax from the stresses of city life, walk their dogs, exercise and spend leisure time with

their families. Save Lea Marshes consider it important for people to express their personal connection with the marshes and believe this is an important way of conveying the true value of the marshes at a time when this space is under increasing threat of development and inappropriate use.”

Alan Seabrook, General Manager of The WaterWorks Centre said, “I was stunned by the quality and diversity of the entries.”

Colin O’Brien, a local professional photographer, from Hackney added, “These are wonderful pictures. It was very difficult to choose, but we got there in the end.” The overall winner was Rebecca McLaren whose image of Leyton Marsh, entitled ‘Big Sky over Ice’ captures an amazing light effect over this open landscape.

third judge, said, “We were overwhelmed by the beauty of the marshes expressed through these images, which illustrate the boundaries between the urban and natural world.”

The photo exhibition will be displayed from 2-30 April at the Waterworks Centre, off Lammas Road, E10 after which it will go on display the following month at Black Cat Café in Hackney.

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LOCAL HERO

Bill Foster

So not a Walthamstow boy originally?

I grew up in a small village in Derbyshire called Horsley Woodhouse, spending much of my childhood roaming around the nearby Peak District exploring crumbling buildings and hill tops with my family.

And a background in theatre. I worked as a Stage Manager, mainly in community based theatre. Somehow this led to running away and joining Cardiff-based No Fit State circus, I performed static trapeze and worked as a clown.

A turning point in your life came about through a slightly bizarre incident. Tell us more. I was working for the London Bubble. It was dark and I was dressed as an orangutan and was carrying a musical saw through Oxleas Wood. I bumped into a lady walking her dog, she screamed and ran away.

I had that sudden realisation that this was a pretty odd way to be making a living. I’m not sure what scared her more, the fact I was in costume or that I was brandishing a saw.

Like many you ended up in Walthamstow pretty much accidentally, what made you fall in love with the place? Walthamstow has its own identity and there’s always something to do. I love the combination of open spaces, busy high streets and the mix of people and cultures that make up our community. Stealing words from someone else but ‘Many threads one fabric” sums E17 up brilliantly.

Which brings us to Walthamstow Diary.

I started blogging in 2012. I had always been nervous about people reading things I had written so decided to challenge myself by writing a blog. I get a real kick from sharing my wanderings around the glorious Stow with people. I still get an attack of nerves every time I press the publish button.

You’ve talked on your blog and in the E List about your experiences helping in the area’s homeless shelters. How did you get involved? I had decided I wanted to do something but had no idea what. I went to a 7days4stow meeting (micro volunteering project) and put my name against the list of people interested in helping at the night shelter. One Sunday evening I got an email asking if I could work the following 16

Wednesday morning, then blog about it to try and encourage other volunteers. I worked that one shift and loved it, I’m now in my second year of volunteering.

How do the shelters operate? The shelter is open from October to March and moves around Waltham Forest using different buildings on different nights of the week.

It’s a massive effort involving a huge army of volunteers who cook, clean and importantly, talk with and listen to the people using the shelter.

Has this changed your view of the homeless? I no longer think of homeless people but rather people who are homeless, because first and foremost they are people.

It is amazing how quickly life can spiral out of control, many of us are only a few paydays from being in real trouble. My partner and I were both made redundant last year and had a brief glimpse of how easily everything can be lost. We were lucky we had lots of support but not everyone has that luxury and people fall through the gaps.

This lead you to come up with a fundraiser for Stella Creasy’s 7days4Stow.

I decided I wanted to raise money for the shelter so booked myself in to run the Brighton Marathon. Then one night in the Chequers after a few too many sherries, I had an idea to run 7 races, one for each night

of the week the shelter was open. I then started booking races before I changed my mind. I’ve run 6 of 7 so far including 4 half marathons.

This month you run your final race.

Don’t remind me, I’m running my first and probably last marathon in Brighton, I’m just focusing on finishing it even if I have to crawl some of the way.

How can people sponsor you? Online through BT donate https://mydonate.bt.com/ fundraisers/7races4stow Tell us about a Walthamstow hidden gem, you must have many. The view from the junction of Low Hall Lane and Downsfield Road with the City in the distance, the old farmers cottages to your right hand side and, although you can’t see it, the marsh and river at the bottom of the valley. The changed and unchanged all in one view.

And finally what would you like to see for the town in the next couple of years?

There is lots of talk about gentrification, hipsters invading from Stoke Newington and Walthamstow losing its magic. I don’t think it matters where people come from as long as we can all work together to make Walthamstow a great place to live.

Change is inevitable, it’s the job of all of us who live here to make sure that change is a good thing.

Photo © Paul Tucker www.paultucker.co.uk

AKA E List regular, Walthamstow Diary, Bill tells Paul Lindt about his former life as an orangutan and running this month’s Brighton marathon in aid of Waltham Forest’s night shelters.

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These are the tales and meanderings of a proud resident of E17 When it gets to the end of the working week and the weekend is looming on the horizon, I like to fantasize about what I’ll do on Saturday, or more to the point what I won’t do on Saturday. I won’t get up early, I won’t do any boring DIY, and I most definitely won’t be going to Sainsbury’s. I have a utopian vision of what my lazy Saturday will be like, but of course, it doesn’t always go to plan. More often than not, regardless of what we’re doing or how organised we try to be, we generally end up having to go up the High Street for something like some essential item for that DIY project I wasn’t going to do. Then there are those really bad days when we need to go into Asda and fight with the unforgiving wall of self-service check-outs, unexpected item in the bagging area, unexpected item in the bagging area.

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Even if we’re on the High Street for a good reason such as heading to or from the Chequers, the market on a busy Saturday can be taxing. Squeezing down the crowded street avoiding shopping trolleys and elbows of fellow shoppers can be exhausting. Thankfully, a visit to the food stalls at the St James Street end of the market more than makes up for any traumatic shopping trip. If you have never tried the food on sale, it’s really worth a visit. There is a fair bit of variety from freshly baked bread and cakes to Indian food, curried goat and chimney cakes.

Two of my favourite places to get food are the Polish stall called Bun on The Run, and newly arrived Chips With Dips who serve their triple cooked chips with blackberry jam with mint or ham with fig. As long as I know I can have some of Walthamstow’s own style of street food on the way home, I can even face these unforgiving check-outs with a smile on my face. www.walthamstowdiary.com 18

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Wish you’d said something at the time but now it’s too late?? Message thanks, rants and questions to the Spotted Walthamstow Facebook page and we’ll repost. 100% anonymous.

Here are some edited highlights from the past few weeks.

‘It’s quite easy to change your bank now. I’ll change mine to any bank that puts a cash machine into Blackhorse Road Station. Why should the people of Blackhorse Village have to pay to get their cash from shop-keepers?’

John: I have lived in Walthamstow for 70 years.

Where is Blackhorse Village?

Molly: I’ve seen a sign for Mattress Village. Is that near?

Simon: That’s right. Just up from St. James Quarter & The Shire.

Joanna: Only just caught this post. Was too busy milking my cow.

Sandy: Did nobody read the council’s ‘mini Holland’ cycle routes proposal? Apparently we have been rebadged Blackhorse Village along with Markhouse Village......umph! Can’t wait to hear how they are going to rebadge Billet Road.

Richard: I find the lack of cash machines helps to give the area a more authentic ‘villagey’ feel Kate: Sorry was just having a go on the tombola at the village fête, having had a chat with the friendly bakers delivery boy and a quick stroll round the idyllic village green so I hadn’t noticed the cash point problem... *cough* Katie: There is a free cashpoint outside the Tesco Metro...about 2mins up the road from BHR tube.

can’t afford to buy!!! If you call yourself a hipster you’re a knob. If you call other people hipsters because you are jealous/ curious/ ignorant you’re a knob.

Caroline: Walthamstow don’t get ahead of yourself and don’t panic! The true hipsters still hang out in Shoreditch and think that Walthamstow is actually outside of London!

What you are seeing on the streets are just normal people who like to wear skinny jeans and sometimes like to take the kids to The Bell for lunch.

Chris: Walthamstow is not getting more expensive it’s catching up with the rest of London, it’s being rejuvenated and let’s be honest it’s becoming a lot better for it.

Wendy: Can’t we all just be a bit more accepting of our fellow Walthamstow residents - whatever background they come from - and keep this a friendly borough with a strong community spirit.

Henning: Hipster, embracing new cultural ideas, art, style and intellect at the same time appreciating what’s been cool before. Get with the program! Hipsters, ethnic minorities, multicultural, that’s the nature of London and it’s most definitely not going to change. like it or move to the Cotswold’s...

Alex: Buck the trend... Hug a Hipster!

‘Can someone define the meaning of a hipster, please.....?’

Daniel: Someone younger and more successful than you, with a more varied and interesting range of cultural reference points.

Kirsty: The single cause of price rises in London property in the last 10 years. With beards.

Christopher: A tiresome cover-all term used by embittered locals to describe people who have the gall to move into a different, possibly less affluent area and demand things like slightly nicer shops and social spaces.

Emma: OMG some ignorant, stupid people here. The biggest cause for house prices soaring are those people called estate agents and rich foreign investors that buy up properties & rent them out to the people that

‘A mysterious member of the Walthamstow wildlife community has deposited a chocolate biscuit beside a cyclamen on my kitchen window sill overnight. Has this happened to anyone else??’

Philip: Well, that takes the biscuit...

Sally: I’ve had a boiled egg and a sausage buried in garden pots.

Gem: Someone left a jammy dodger in my window box. It was a little soggy but tasted fine.

Kath: I once found a joint of gammon buried in my garden!

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Holly: I’ve had a mini double choc chip muffin in my raised bed. I watched the squirrel trying to bury it.

Jenny: The squirrels used to leave Lego in our garden and dig up the bulbs!

Recent freedom of information request to Waltham Forest Borough Council reads (complete with original spelling): ‘I have some questions regarding matresses after read about them in newspaper.

1) How many matresses are taken each week?

2) Does Cllr Loakes or member of families own second hand matress shop?

3) If not, what does Cllr Loakes do with matresses he takes from streets?

4) Why does Cllr Loakes steal all them mattreeses.’

Matt: Private Eye would be proud John: This is hilarious!

Peter: Time better spent serving the community I think.

Spotted Walthamstow: Further requests can be found at www.whatdotheyknow.com ‘To the man who lived upstairs from us at Cairo Road for two long partying years in Walthamstow - who never complained or told our landlady. Really sorry mate, you’re a diamond!’

Tara: I lived on Cairo Road, too! Where was my invite, dude?

Kevin: After two years, your sorry seems less than genuine.

June: Surely this post is a joke of some sort.

When someone lives selfishly in this way then there’s always a victim. And they know that but continue, so can’t even plead ignorance.

Emma: People are sooo serious!! And FYI he probably didn’t complain because we kept his secret gfs a secret for him!!! Victim?? Seriously Walthamstow, lighten up.

Sharon: Oh chill out people!!! We’ve said sorry that’s the most important thing (he was a bit deaf) x Jolene: Secret girlfriends, crazy parties, why don’t I live on Cairo road!

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Rectory Road, Walthamstow, London, E17 4 bedroom terraced house for sale Guide Price: £800,000 - £900,000 An Outstanding Family Home In An Excellent Location.

Full of character, charm and an abundance of period features, this superb home is located on one of Walthamstow’s most exclusive roads, moments from the cafe’s, restaurants and pubs of Walthamstow Village and excellent local schools. The two reception rooms have been opened to form a tremendous lounge with two original fireplaces and doors to the garden, but be sure to look up to take in the breathtaking ceiling decoration and detail. Along the corridor you find the large modern kitchen and a dining room with patio doors that overlook the delightful garden. On the first floor there are three double bedrooms with stunning original fireplaces, a box/nursary room and the family bathroon. A fabulous home with great curb appeal.

Addison Road, London, E17 3 bedroom terraced house for sale Guide Price £750,000 - £800,000 A plethora of original features embellish every room, stripped floors and high ceilings are found throughout. A perfect location in the heart of the Village.

Beulah Road, London, E17 3 bedroom semi-detached house for sale Guide Price £650,000 - £700,000 The bright, airy and spacious lounge diner has a cast iron fireplace and stripped floors The modern kitchen is a perfect size for a family with access onto the garden.

020 8520 9300 www.estates17.co.uk 40 Orford Road London E17 9NJ

Lea Bridge Road, Leyton, London, E10 8 bedroom house for sale Guide Price £625,000 - £650,000 An opportunity to restore a grand four story, eight bedroom Victorian town house.

Currently separated into individual bed-sits and a large ground floor flat.

enjoy life..

Estates 17 April Gallery

Orford Road, London, E17 1 bedroom flat for sale Guide Price £240,000 - £250,000 Top floor flat is chain free and situated on Orford Road in Walthamstow Village.

Eden Road, London, E17 2 bedroom detached house for sale Offers in the region of £600,000 Award winning architect design contemporary home, has a great use of space, light, exceptional quality and finish.

Turner Road, London, E17 3 bedroom terraced house for sale Guide Price £500,000 - £550,000 The bay fronted lounge lounge/diner is open and spaciousleading to the modern and well appointed kitchen/diner.

Cromwell Road, London, E17 4 bedroom terraced house for sale Guide Price £550,000 - £600,000 The property is of generous proportions and offers a wealth of original features and stylish modern additions.

Magpie Cottage, Forest Rise, London, E17 2 bedroom cottage for sale Guide Price £500,000 - £550,000 With unrestricted views of Epping Forest, this beautiful listed foresters cottage boasts an abundance of original features.

Eden Road, London, E17 2 bedroom semi-detached house for sale Guide Price £550,000 - £600,000 The side entrance brings you into the lounge with its open fireplace or through to the dining room with a working stove.

Eden Road, London, E17 2 bedroom semi-detached house for sale Guide Price £500,000 - £550,000 The lounge area has double doors that open onto the garden with a raised sun terrace for al fresco dining in the summer.

Grove Road, London, E17 4 bedroom house to rent £1,800 pcm This sizable four bedroom home is perfect for a growing family or those looking to share and will be available from May 2014.

Pretoria Avenue, London, E17 3 bedroom terraced house for sale Guide Price £525,000 The bay fronted lounge has a tremendous cast iron fireplace with the second reception room opening onto the inspired conservatory that runs along the side of the house.

Twickenham Road, Leytonstone, E11 2 bedroom ground floor flat for sale Guide Price £325,000 - £350,000 A fantastic home for first time buyers looking for a perfect property, finished to a very high standard.

Grove Road, London, E17 4 bedroom house to rent £1,800 pcm This fantastic property features four double bedrooms, large lounge, good size modern kitchen/diner, a large loft conversion with ensuite and a beautiful garden.

.. living in east London

Estates 17 Lettings

Pembroke Road, London, E17 4 bedroom semi-detached house to rent £1,800 pcm Located in the sought after Walthamstow Village is this generously sized four bedroom semi detached house.

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