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The return of Gods Own Junkyard!

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Gods Own In July last year the E List featured Chris Bracey of God Own Junkyard (GOJY) as our Local Hero. At the time his business was facing potential eviction through the sale of its site on Valentin Road. There was a real possibility that Walthamstow might not only lose a successful manufacturing business, but also one of the world’s largest collections of neon, as well as a popular location for film, TV, fashion and music shoots. Some months later the land was indeed sold for redevelopment and the hunt was on for a new site. Before closing its doors crowds flocked to GOJY not only from all over London but across the world drawn by a welter of press from New York to Dubai. It became more and more

Junkyard apparent that this was a world class visitor attraction that Walthamstow couldn’t afford to lose.

Thankfully in the end Chris and his team managed to find a site close by and GOJY re-opened just before Christmas in a new home off Shernhall Street.

I really loved the original outdoor space, our own version of Las Vegas’s Neon Bone Yard, but the new site is even better. It’s over four times the size and is the perfect home for many of the stunning pieces Chris has produced for film, music and fashion over his 40-year career.

The cavernous interior glimmers from floorto-ceiling. You can see the HOTEL neon from The Dark Knight next to the STARK

Gods Own Junkyard Friday, Saturday and Sunday - 11am to 5pm Unit 12, Ravenswood Industrial Estate, Shernhall Street, Walthamstow E17 9HQ www.godsownjunkyard.co.uk

sign that Chris made for Ironman, and then an oversized top hat from Kubrick’s last movie Eyes Wide Shut. Signs from blockbusters like World War Z and Tomb Raider decorate the sizeable mezzanine that overlooks the main arena.

Chris is excited about his new home. “As it’s much bigger than the last place, I really wanted to have fun with it and make it as Bladerunner as possible. That shed (a focus point of the old yard) belonged to my neighbour and she was going to get rid of it. I took it off her hands, filled it with God and Jesus signs and turned it into a chapel.

Now though, I think I’m going to tilt it for a while, so it looks a bit like the Kansas house that lands in Oz.”. He describes the

new interior as “what the inside of my brain looks like”. The space also showcases vintage signs from as far back as the 1930s and original circus signs made by Chris’ father.

He has plans to install a large Victorian bar rescued from a local pub and create a seating and refreshment area for visitors.

An outdoor terraced area at the rear will also open during the summer period; and plans are already afoot to create a Day of the Triffids-style garden, with plants growing through neon pieces and salvaged signs.

Anyway it’s great to see GOJY open again here in Walthamstow and may its fame continue to spread far and wide. www.issuu.com/e17_listings

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E List, one year on and we’re still here. He’ll hate this but I want to thank Neil Collins of Estates 17 again for all his encouragement and support, because without him this whole enterprise would have just remained one of those ‘wouldn’t it be good if...’ ideas you have after a few pints down the pub.

It’s been an interesting year for Walthamstow and one where many of us got to discover, only then to almost lose the escapist wonder that is Gods Own Junkyard. If you haven’t seen it yet then I urge you to visit its new home on Ravenswood Industrial Estate on Shernhall Street. Aside from the collection, Chris Bracey’s workshop is one in a long line of world class manufacturing businesses, past and present, based in Walthamstow. As the current demand for housing rises the pressure to redevelop these last little pockets of industrial space increases and we lose more and more of them. I find this really sad because it seems to be a signifier that we still undervalue the people and business who actually make things in this country. In the past Walthamstow was renowned for its light industry but this reputation is sadly slipping away. Only last month it was announced that the Mandora Mannequin Factory on Blackhorse Lane has been forced to relocate by development. And at the end of last year a great icon of E17’s manufacturing past, the Ensign camera factory on Fulbourne Road was demolished. Stripped of its ugly modern cladding the exterior could have been returned to it former glory making an iconic apartment block and a fitting memorial. On pages 12-13 we look at the building, Ensign and its cameras.

Finally, I grew up near Brighton and at school in the 70s I was a white kid amongst only white kids. Bizarrely I felt different to my peers because my dad was foreign. Our holidays were mainly spent visiting his family who were an international mix of Swiss, American, Indian and Dutch. I always loved the sound of all the different languages being spoken at family gatherings, and that sound still gives me a sense of home as I walk the streets of Walthamstow. It is interesting listening to Fabien Ho, this month’s Local Hero, talking about his upbringing, as he moved around the world, and about his project for this year’s E17 Art Trail entitled “Mixed Race”. He describes his experience as an outsider, not negatively, but as someone who doesn’t belong to a single tribe and I can relate to that. It is a common experience to many residents of Walthamstow and in some way perhaps unites much of the town. Interestingly it isn’t always about race or nationality, it can be as simple as moving here from another part of London or maybe a small village in Devon. Perhaps the term ‘outsider’ can constitute a unifying principle?

Paul Lindt, Editor

The Ensign Camera Factory The Wilcumstowe Times Local Hero: Fabien Ho Walthamstow Diary Spotted Walthamstow

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February

Saturday 1 WVRA Muck-Spreading Gardening Day Meet at Village Square on corner of Orford and Eden Roads Meet to spread compost around the Village. Please bring a wheelbarrow and a spade or fork if you have them.

10.30am-12.30pm. FREE. Helen Lerner 0781 404 2499 or helen@walthamstowvillage.net VEKU Asian Popup: Chinese New Year Meal The Warrant Officer, 318 Higham Hill Road E17 5RG VEKU presents Chinese New Year Meal.

6.30-10pm.

More details and bookings please visit www.veku.co.uk Burns Night ceilidh St Michael and All Angels Church, Northcote Road E17 6PQ Organised by the Friends of Stoneydown Park to raise funds for the park. It promises to be lots of fun with music from fantastic local band ‘The Stowicks’.

Brings your own drinks. 7-11pm. £10 please email lindahughes1@gmail. com to order.

Higher on Maiden The Dog and Duck, 222 Chingford Road E17 5AL The top Iron Maiden band in the country is here in Walthamstow, one night only! Organised by the Friends of The Standard. Doors 8pm, band 9pm. £10.

Dave 07877612548

Sunday 2 Markhouse Road / Alexandra Road Area Community Cleanup Meet at 1pm on Boundary Road between Markhouse Road and Alexandra Road We are the Walthamstow Roving Litter Pickers, a group of residents, who are supported by CleanupUK, a charity dedicated to tackling the problem of litter and fly-tipping. This is an opportunity to make good on all those New Year resolutions, meet like-minded neighbours, be active and get some fresh air! So why not join us, take control of the local environment you live in and feel positive about it. 1-3pm. FREE. All litter-picking equipment is provided (litter pickers, gloves and bags).

Contact Emma on 07950 345 639 or email emma.harrington@cleanupuk. org.uk.

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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. Klezmer Klub at Walthamstow Folk Club Ye Olde Rose and Crown, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA Klezmer comes from the European Jewish tradition; the dances and songs contain joy, exhilaration and wit alongside sadness, anger and defiance.

7.30pm. £7 (£5 concs), online advance tickets available, more info at www.walthamstowfolk.co.uk

Monday 3 Battered Saucepan Ye Olde Rose and Crown, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA Live Blues Band in the Main Bar. 8.30pm. FREE.

Tuesday 4 The Wisdom Well: Festival of Community Conversation Walthamstow Library, High Street E17 7JN Everyone loves a good chat. Come and discuss the things important to you and your community at this Festival of Conversation, led by Studio 3 Arts.

4-6.30pm. FREE. No booking required, just come along on the day.

020 8496 3000.

Crochet course Abstract, 54 Beulah Road E17 9LQ Crochet is the “New Knitting”! 7-9pm.

Cost flexible according to experience. alessandrarigillo@googlemail.com or 07971 255 705

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Wednesday 5 Under 5’s Nature Explorers Community Room in the Aveling Centre Lloyd Park E17 4PP Join us for adventures and activities in Lloyd Park for under 5s and their parents/ carers. 10am-1pm. FREE. Booking is recommended.

Rachel on 07787193981 or e-mail r.hoyes@tcv.org.uk Blackhorse and Standard Morris Dancing Beginners Evening St Gabriel’s Family Centre, Havant Road E17 3JF A fun and friendly way of keeping fit whilst learning traditional Women’s Morris dancing. No experience necessary. Musicians (male or female) also welcome. 8-10pm. First term free, then £25/term.

020 8527 2926 www.blackhorseandstandard.org.uk Open Mic Night Ye Olde Rose and Crown, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA Open to all, Musicians, Poets, Stand-up Comedy – In the Main Bar - Hosted by Graham Larkbey. 8.30pm. FREE.

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Thursday 6 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.

“Telling Stories” The Mill, 7-11 Coppermill Lane E17 7HA Meet The Amazing Story Capturing Machine, the team from the RCA and artist Michelle Reader. FREE. Launch event 6-8.30pm www.themill-coppermill.org mo@themill-coppermill.org Guffaw Comedy Club Ye Olde Rose Theatre, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA Alan Carr comes to Walthamstow!

8.30pm. Tickets £18 - SOLD OUT – Returns only.

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Circle Dancing to World Music 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

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Walthamstow’s Independent Cinema

Friday 7 Stow Baby Film Lounge presents Frances Ha (2012, Cert 15) Orford House Social Club, 73 Orford Road E17 9QR Frances lives in New York, but she doesn’t have an apartment. Frances is an apprentice for a dance company, but she’s not really a dancer. Frances has a best friend named Sophie, but they aren’t really speaking anymore.

Frances throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as their possible reality dwindles. Frances wants so much more than she has but lives her life with unaccountable joy and lightness.

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 Tour: English Magic: we sit starving amongst our gold William Morris Gallery, Lloyd Park, Forest Road E17 4PP Join Emma Gifford-Mead, curator of the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, for a tour of Jeremy Deller’s exhibition.

3pm. FREE. No booking necessary. www.wmgallery.org.uk 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 Vegetarian Supper Club The House of Norman Loves near Bakers Arms (address revealed on booking) A fresh and tasty start to February.

Five courses of locally sourced vegetarian fare served up in cosy surroundings with live music. 7pm. £25 available from www.normanloves. com/#!in-the-future/c1eol or email normanlovessoup@gmail.com VEKU Asian Popup: Japanese 3 Course Dinner The Warrant Officer, 318 Higham Hill Road E17 5RG Some old favourites plus some unusual dishes. 6.30-10pm.

More details and bookings please visit www.veku.co.uk Guffaw Comedy Club Ye Olde Rose Theatre, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA Alan Carr comes to Walthamstow!

8.30pm. Tickets £18 - SOLD OUT – Returns only.

Regular Grown-Up, Kids’ & Baby screenings.

Also available for private hire.

For more details, head to www.stowfilmlounge.com Also follow us here: / Stowfilmlounge

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Become a Friend of The Mill and help us grow from strength to strength!

You can guarantee its future in Walthamstow, and if you sign up by March then you’ll help us double your donation thanks to LBWF Council, who will match any donations if we reach our £3000 target by March!

As a Friend of The Mill, you will be helping support a much-loved community space.

You’ll get regular updates and newsletters, as well as invitations to our events and celebrations.

For more info and to pay online http://themill-coppermill.org/friends-of-the-mill/ or email us for a form info@themill-coppermill.org

The Mill, 7-11 Coppermill Lane E17 020 85213211

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Friday 7 continued Stow Film Lounge presents Sunshine On Leith (2013, Cert PG) Orford House Social Club, 73 Orford Road E17 9QR The film follows the stories of Davy and Ally, who have to re-learn how to live life in Edinburgh after coming home from serving in Afghanistan. Both struggle to learn to live a life outside the army and to deal with the everyday struggles of family, jobs and relationships.

Sunshine on Leith is based on the sensational stage hit of the same name, featuring music by pop-folk band The Proclaimers. Doors open 7.45pm, Film 8.30pm, Late Bar, close midnight. Tickets: £8/£6 conc, ticket + pizza from £13.50 Tickets: www.stowfilmlounge.com or the door. 07910 643987

Saturday 8 Stow Kids’ Film Lounge presents Ratatouille (2007, Cert U) Orford House Social Club, 73 Orford Road E17 9QR With dreams of becoming a chef, a culinary genius in the form of a scrawny rat named Remy finds his dreams of culinary superstardom stirring up sizable controversy in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant in this madcap computer-animated comedy. It’s hard being a rat with culinary aspirations, but Remy is convinced he has what it takes to break the stereotypes and follow in the footsteps of star chef Auguste Gusteau.

Doors open 10.30am, Scribble & Smudge 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.

Money Intelligence Seminar: The 3 New Rules of Money Higham Hill Library, North Countess Road E17 5HS The rules of money have changed; get an insight into what’s new and how to change your game plan. 10.30am12.30pm. FREE. Bookings www.wflibraries.eventbrite. com, visit the library or 020 8496 3000 Waltham Forest Bilingual Group The Limes Children Centre, 6 Somers Road E17 6 RX Drop-in advice and play session for parents raising their children bilingually.

3.30-5.30pm. FREE. www.wfbilingual.org.uk Claire 07770 860038 Robb Johnson & the E-Irregulars, Graham Larkbey & the Escape Committee, The SC4 Ye Olde Rose and Crown, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA Bumper triple bill - ace songwriter Johnson’s expanded “E-Street” Irregulars, Larkbey’s pub-rock favourites, plus both joining forces in garagerockers The SC4! 8.30pm. FREE.

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VEKU Asian Popup: Japanese 3 Course Dinner The Warrant Officer, 318 Higham Hill Road E17 5RG Details as Friday 7.

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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 In the Pink for Valentine’s Day Vestry House Museum, Vestry Road E17 9NH Make cards and keepsakes for your loved ones using card, beads and fabric collage.

Led by artist Sba Shaikh. 1.30-4pm. FREE drop-in event for families of all ages.

020 8496 4391 www.walthamforest.gov.uk/vestry-house Junior Reporter’s Training The Mill, 7-11 Coppermill Lane E17 7HA Learn how to use The New Amazing Story Capturing Machine, do some sample interviews and learn how to be confident in asking questions. FREE. 2-4pm www.themill-coppermill.org mo@themill-coppermill.org Barron Brady at Walthamstow Folk Club Ye Olde Rose and Crown, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA Ros Brady and Si Barron’s strongly narrative songs include coffee drinking mermaids, corn mowing devils, flying highwaymen and disappearing hedgrows. 7.30pm. £7 (£5 concs), online advance tickets available, more info at www.walthamstowfolk.co.uk

Monday 10 E17popup presents VEKU: Japanese 3 Course Dinner Ye Olde Rose and Crown, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA Vegetarians are welcome! 6-10pm.

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Want to take part?

Programme registration is now open and artists need to register to be part of the 2014 E17 Art Trail by the deadline Monday 3 March 2014.

Non-artists can also get involved through E17 Art Trail’s dynamic and fun volunteer programme. Go to the website if you’d like to help out and join the enthusiastic team of E17 Art Trail volunteers.

To find out more and to register www.e17arttrail.co.uk @E17ArtTrail

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Be My Love ...

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An evening of rapture, ecstasy, passion, betrayal, revenge, torture, and cross dressing... all in the name of... Love!

Saturday 15th February 2014 at 7:30pm

St. Mary’s Church, Church Hill, London E17 9RJ £20 / £15 concession - admission includes one complimentary drink advance bookings: 020 8123 9740 or email: dynamicnotions@yahoo.co.uk

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More Than Beginners Course Eight Count The Trades Hall, 17 Hoe Street E17 4SB (entrance in Tower Hamlets Road) Do you have some six count partner dancing experience? This four week course will consolidate the six count moves you already know, and introduce you to some basic eight count. 8.309.30pm. Special offer for the four weeks - £40 per individual.

More info www.jeromelanderson.com

Tuesday 11 Walthamstow Folk Club Tune Session Ye Olde Rose Theatre, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA Join us for an informal tune session, of mostly English tunes. All acoustic instruments welcome; the first hour is beginner-friendly with easier tunes played more slowly. FREE but raffle.

8-10.30pm. www.walthamstowfolk.co.uk/sessions.htm While the Cats Away Ye Olde Rose and Crown, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA Live Jazz Band in the Main Bar. 8.30pm.

FREE.

Wednesday 12 I Love Low Cost Living Workshop Significant Seams, 131 Wood Street E17 3LX Simple makes and to-dos to lower household costs, and be environmentally friendly. 12.30- 2.30pm. FREE. Holding a Mirror to the 80s: Lesbian Short Stories Now & Then Walthamstow Library, High Street E17 7JN Author Cherry Potts and actor Sarah Feathers will read from Mosaic of Air, and Lovers’ Lies, an anthology edited by Cherry. 7-8.30pm. FREE. Bookings www.wflibraries.eventbrite. com, visit the library or 020 8496 3000 Blackhorse and Standard Morris Dancing Beginners Evening St Gabriel’s Family Centre, Havant Road E17 3JF See Wednesday 5 for details.

Shellac 78’s Night Ye Olde Rose and Crown, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA Music in the Main Bar from the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s with DJ Tony Tunes.

8.30pm. FREE.

Thursday 13 Creative Kids: A Gift of Love William Morris Gallery, Lloyd Park, Forest Road E17 4PP Make gifts to share with your friends and family this Valentine’s Day. 1011.30am (repeated 1-2.30pm). FREE but booking is essential.

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

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The Huguenot Silk Weavers of Spitalfields Trinity United Reformed Church, 58 Orford Road E17 9QU (entrance in West Avenue) Talk at Walthamstow Historical Society, Sue Jackson talks about the Huguenots, their homes, who designed and made the silk dresses, how the trade died out.

7.30pm. £1.50 but free to members of the Walthamstow Historical Society.

No booking required. www.walthamstowhistoricalsociety.org.uk

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Let us entice you with our candle lit dinner, Champagne and lavish deserts. Live entertainment.

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Friday 14 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/ WMG Late: Singles Unite! William Morris Gallery, Lloyd Park, Forest Road E17 4PP Cocktails, canapés and optional speed dating at Walthamstow’s most romantic location. Private viewing of the entire gallery, including Jeremy Deller’s acclaimed English Magic installation. £20. £5 refund for those not taking part in speed-dating. 10% discount on groups of 6 or more. BOOKING ESSENTIAL. Book at http://www. edibleexperiences.com/p/1712055/ Just-Hospitality/255001/Singles-Unite or email sarahconnor@justhospitality.co.uk 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

Knitting & crochet circle Abstract, 54 Beulah Road E17 9LQ A social evening with ladies & gentlemen with a passion (or addiction!) to knitting & crochet. Expect a lot of gossip!!!

8-10pm. FREE. alessandrarigillo@googlemail.com or mob:07971 255 705 VEKU Asian Popup: Thai Dinner The Warrant Officer, 318 Higham Hill Road E17 5RG Thai Dinner with robust flavours from the North, balanced with delicate flavours from the South. 6.30-10pm.

More details and bookings please visit www.veku.co.uk

Saturday 15 National Children’s Book Swap The Mill, 7-11 Coppermill Lane E17 7HA Bring books you have read to the Mill and swap them for books you want to read ! Write a review in our scrapbook.

FREE. 10am-5pm. www.themill-coppermill.org mo@themill-coppermill.org Be my love, from Beethoven to Broadway St Mary’s Church, Church Hill E17 9RJ Music by Bellini, Novello, Puccini, Bernstein, Tosti et al. Plus a tribite to Mario Lanza and Kathryn Grayson.

Featuring Yvonne Howard, Dominic Natoli and Annette Saunders. 7.30pm Tickets £20 (concessions £15).

Tickets: 020 8123 9740 or email: dynamicnotions@yahoo.co.uk VEKU Asian Popup: Thai Dinner The Warrant Officer, 318 Higham Hill Road E17 5RG Details as Friday 14.

De-mystifying the Portrait: A Presentation by Deborah Nash The Mill, 7-11 Coppermill Lane E17 7HA Discover the secrets behind some of the greatest portraits ever painted, from the distant past to the present day, in a slide presentation show with commentary. 2.30-3.30pm. £2 donation welcome. www.themill-coppermill.org mo@themill-coppermill.org Pete Morton album launch at Walthamstow Folk Club Ye Olde Rose Theatre, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA Pete Morton launches his new album ‘The Frappin’ and Ramblin’ Pete Morton’, with ten spellbinding lyrical gems. 7.30pm. £7 (£5 concs), online advance tickets available, more info at www.walthamstowfolk.co.uk

Monday 17 Battered Saucepan Ye Olde Rose and Crown, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA Live Blues Band in the Main Bar. 8.30pm. FREE.

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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. @JazzatTheBell

Bird Walk and Bird Box Making Lloyd Park, Forest Road London E17 4PP One hour’s bird walk then help create bird boxes for the park. 10am-1pm. FREE. Please contact Rachel Hoyes to book on r.hoyes@tcv.org.uk or 07787193981

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Tuesday 18 continued Sketch and Scribble! Illustration Workshop Walthamstow Library, High Street E17 7JN Learn to create characters and comics with writer, artist and illustrator, Richy K. Chandler. For ages 6+. Find out more about Richy’s work at: www.tempolush. com 2-3.30pm. FREE. Bookings www.wflibraries.eventbrite. com, visit the library or 020 8496 3000

Wednesday 19 Lick The Pencil: Young People’s 1-1 Creative Writing Surgery Walthamstow Library, High Street E17 7JN Bring your writing and ideas to get an individual 30 minute slot for 1-1 feedback and advice from an active local writer. Ages 7-18. 1-4pm. FREE. Bookings www.wflibraries.eventbrite. com, visit the library or 020 8496 3000 Jeremy Deller in Conversation William Morris Gallery, Lloyd Park, Forest Road E17 4PP An opportunity to discover more about the evolution of Deller’s installation at the British Pavilion and his long fascination with Morris. 7.30pm. FREE. Booking essential via wmgbookings@walthamforest.gov.uk or 020 8496 4390 www.wmgallery.org.uk

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Ye Olde 17 Comedy Club Ye Olde Rose and Crown, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA Ye Olde 17’s regular Stand-up Comedy Night in the Red Room. FREE. 8.00pm.

Stow Film Lounge presents Blue Jasmine (2013, Cert 12A) Orford House Social Club, 73 Orford Road E17 9QR Woody Allen’s tale of a New York socialite, deeply troubled and in denial, who arrives in San Francisco to impose upon her sister. She looks a million dollars, but isn’t bringing money, peace, or love... it features an award-winning performance of a woman on the edge by Cate Blanchett. Doors open 7.45pm, Film 8.30pm, Late Bar, close midnight. Tickets: £8/£6 conc, ticket + pizza from £13.50 Tickets: www.stowfilmlounge.com or the door. 07910 643987

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VEKU Asian Popup: Chinese DIM SUM The Warrant Officer, 318 Higham Hill Road E17 5RG VEKU brings you a selection of Dim Sum, followed by Chinese Glutinous Rice wrapped in lotus leaf. Vegetarian options available. Join us! 6.30-10pm.

More details and bookings please visit www.veku.co.uk

Arabian Nights William Morris Gallery, Lloyd Park, Forest Road E17 4PP Join bloodthirsty kings and a magic lamp as we journey through ‘1001 Nights’ folktales, loved by William Morris. 1-4pm. FREE drop-in event for families of all ages 020 8496 4390 www.wmgallery.org.uk

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Healthy Food for Happy Families Wood Street Library, Forest Road E17 4AA A workshop with a difference – discover healthy food the fun and creative way with quizzes, arts and crafts and healthy snacks. Ages 3-10 and their families.

2-3.30pm. FREE. Bookings www.wflibraries.eventbrite. com, visit the library or 020 8496 3000

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Sketch and Scribble! Illustration Workshop Higham Hill Library, North Countess Road E17 5HS Learn to create characters and comics with writer, artist and illustrator, Richy K. Chandler. For ages 6+. Find out more about Richy’s work at: www.tempolush. com 2-3.30pm. FREE. Bookings www.wflibraries.eventbrite. com, visit the library or 020 8496 3000

Stow Kids’ Film Lounge presents Oliver (1968, Cert U) Orford House Social Club, 73 Orford Road E17 9QR Multi Oscar-winning musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’s classic tale Oliver Twist, tells the story of an orphan who runs away from the orphanage and becomes involved with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor. Doors open 10.30am, Pre-film 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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Discover comes to The Mill The Mill, 7-11 Coppermill Lane E17 7HA Stories, poems, art and craft. Bake your own alphabet biscuits! Visit the story Yurt. Map your journeys! FREE. 11am-5pm www.themill-coppermill.org mo@themill-coppermill.org WF LETS The Hornbeam Café, 458 Hoe Street E17 9AH People can exchange all kinds of goods and services with one another without the need for money. 10.30-12noon.

For more information here or email info@wflets.org 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 Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is! Warrant Officer Pub, 318 Higham Hill Road E17 5RG A night of 70’s and 80’s Old Skool Funk and Soul. 8-12pm. £5 on the door.

More info www.jeromelanderson.com

Cabaret Performance: Tim McArthur – In A New Direction Ye Olde Rose Theatre, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA Tim McArthur: In A New Direction, with special guests singers, Sarah Dearlove, Julie Ross and Emanuel Alba performed in the Rose and Crown Cabaret Lounge.

FREE. 7.30pm. £12.50 (£10 concession). www.allstarproductions.co.uk VEKU Asian Popup: Chinese DIM SUM The Warrant Officer, 318 Higham Hill Road E17 5RG Details as Friday 21.

Walls of Heartache The Arubar Lounge, 524 Forest Road E17 4NB Northern Soul on Vinyl in an intimate and very friendly setting. 9pm- 2am. £5 on the door (no need to pre-book) half price entry before 10am. wallsofheartache@gmail.com

Sunday 23 The Absentees at Walthamstow Folk Club Ye Olde Rose and Crown, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA With extensive research and skilled musicianship, this duo brings rare gems of English song and music to vivid life.

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Waltham Forest Cycling Campaign Monthly Ride Meet outside Walthamstow Library, High Street E17 7JN at 10.00am for a 10.15 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

Monday 24 E17popup and VEKU presents Chinese DIM SUM Ye Olde Rose and Crown, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA VEKU brings you a selection of Dim Sum, followed by Chinese Glutinous Rice wrapped in lotus leaf. Vegetarian options available. Join us! 6-10pm.

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Tuesday 25 While the Cats Away Ye Olde Rose and Crown, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA Live Jazz Band in the Main Bar. 8.30pm.

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Wednesday 26 E17 Jazz Orford Road Social Club, Orford Road E17 Jim Mullen with the Tom Hewson Trio. Jim is a truly original voice in contemporary jazz guitar. He has worked with jazz vocalist Claire Martin as part of a series of quartets. As a sideman, Mullen is in demand by visiting U.S. stars like Gene Harris, Mose Allison, Jimmy Smith, Weldon Irvine, Percy Sledge, Teddy Edwards and Terry Collier.

He is twice winner of ‘Best Guitar’ in the British Telecom jazz awards and ‘Best Guitar’ in the British Jazz Awards.

8.30pm. £12 (concessions £10). e17jazz.com/whatson/

Thursday 27 Music in the Village St Mary’s Church, Church Hill E17 9RJ Baroque Concertos and Sonatas, by Handel, Vivaldi, Fasch, Telemann and Bohemian eccentric Zelenka! 7pm doors for 7.30pm. £12 (concessions £6) on the door. www.villagemusic.walthamsoft.com Hugh Moffatt Ye Olde Rose and Crown, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA Rare London gig by highly-rated Texan singer/songwriter (brother of Katy Moffatt) - folk, country, Americana and sheer good songwriting! Find out more about Hugh at www.hughmoffatt.com 8.30pm. £8.

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Friday 28 Stow Baby Film Lounge presents Blue Jasmine (2013, Cert 12A) Orford House Social Club, 73 Orford Road E17 9QR Woody Allen’s tale of a New York socialite, deeply troubled and in denial, who arrives in San Francisco to impose upon her sister. She looks a million dollars, but isn’t bringing money, peace, or love... it features a dazzling performance of a woman on the edge by Cate Blanchett. Doors open 11.15am, Film 11.45am, Close 1.45pm. Tickets: £6.50/£5 conc, Babies up to 1yr only - Free.

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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 the graphic novel, Persepolis by Mariane Satrapi. Tea, coffee, wine available. New members welcome, just turn up. 7.30pm. www.hornbeam.org.uk Stow Film Lounge & Cabaraoke present This Is Spinal Tap (1984, Cert 15) Orford House Social Club, 73 Orford Road E17 9QR A themed evening of film, music and karaoke to celebrate this landmark film’s 30th anniversary. In 1982 legendary British heavy metal band Spinal Tap, the world’s loudest band, attempt an American comeback tour by promoting their new LP Smell the Glove. This “real” documentary is largely improvised by director Rob Reiner and his cast. Doors open 7.15pm, Film 7.45pm, DJ St. Hibbins & Karaoke 9.30pm, Close midnight.

Tickets: £9.50 (film & karaoke), £17.50/ £17.00 (ticket with pizza & karaoke), £6.50 (karaoke only).

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Friday 28 continued Swing Time Serenades Ye Olde Rose and Crown, 53 Hoe Street E17 4SA Live Swing Band in the Main Bar. 8.30pm. FREE. VEKU Asian Popup presents EAST! The Warrant Officer, 318 Higham Hill Road E17 5RG A selection of street food from East Asia! Expect dumplings, buns, rolls, wontons, tempura, satays and more!

6.30-10pm.

More details and bookings please visit www.veku.co.uk Club Vintage London Private Bar, RS Lounge, Woodford New Road E17 3PR Club Vintage London is the exciting new over 30’s night for those who still like to throw shapes to the music of our youth with friends and kindred spirits! 9pm2am. £5 on door or in advance from www.clubvintagelondon.co.uk or contact dan@clubvintagelondon.co.uk

Coming next month Saturday March 1 VEKU Asian Popup presents EAST! The Warrant Officer, 318 Higham Hill Road E17 5RG Details as Friday February 28.

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Sunday March 2 Concert – Forest Philharmonic Orchestra Walthamstow Assembly Hall, 703 Forest Road E17 4JD Beethoven Egmont Overture, Bruch Violin Concerto, Brahms Symphony No.1. Conductor: Mark Shanahan.

Violin: Fenella Humphreys. 6.30pm.

Free pre-concert talk at 5.30pm.

Tickets £15, £10. (concs £12, £8, under-18 and students £3).

Family ticket (stalls): one adult and one child £10.

International Womens Day 2014 Walthamstow Assembly Hall, Forest Road E17 4JD Waltham Forest Women’s Network and partners are organising a fantastic event at Walthamstow Assembly Hall. There will be stalls, food, music and a fashion show. Stalls and workshops 2-5pm.

Entertainment 6-9pm. Women only. info.wfwn@gmail.com

Every week/Whole month 1-28 February E17 Designers Valentine’s Showcase Vestry House Museum, Vestry Road E17 9NH E17 Designers showcase for the Valentine’s month of February.

Designers’ work on display in the Gallery showcase. Wed-Sun 10am-5pm. FREE. contact@e17designers.co.uk Until 9 March A Memory Palace of her own William Morris Gallery, Lloyd Park, Forest Road E17 4PP Contemporary double of Jane Morris, artist Marje Bijl shows self-portraits staged in William and Jane’s former homes. Wed-Sun 10am-5pm. FREE. www.wmgallery.org.uk

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Until 9 February Marshans Unit 3, Central Parade, Hoe Street E17 4RT An exhibition of artworks to celebrate our local nature, created by the community on our marshes during summer 2013.

Tue to Sat: 10am-10pm, Sun: 10am 8pm. FREE. Until 2 February Urban Decay, Urban Ascent The Mill, 7-11 Coppermill Lane E17 7HA A variety of street life photographs from past and present students of Leyton Sixth-Form College. Curated by LSC student Kim Dennis. FREE. Tues-Thurs 10am-7pm. Fri-Sat 10am-6pm. Sun 11am-2pm www.themill-coppermill.org mo@themill-coppermill.org February 6 - March 29 “Telling Stories” The Mill, 7-11 Coppermill Lane E17 7HA Mixed media event; Stories from The Mill, pictures, film, sound recordings – an ever expanding exhibition! Including the launch of the incredible Story Machine. FREE. Tues-Thurs 10am-7pm.

Fri-Sat 10am-6pm. Sun 11am-2pm www.themill-coppermill.org mo@themill-coppermill.org Events marked

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Until 30 March Jeremy Deller: English Magic: we sit starving amongst our gold William Morris Gallery, Lloyd Park, Forest Road E17 4PP First opportunity in Britain to see exhibits from Jeremy Deller’s 2013 Venice Biennale installation. For him, Morris’s art and politics are inseparable.

Wed-Sun 10am-5pm. FREE. www.wmgallery.org.uk Until 1 February Stuff and Nonsense by Pen Dalton Tokarska Gallery, 163 Forest Road E17 6HE How does ‘theory’ inform painting?

Does it inform painting at all for the artist? After working as an art researcher, lecturer and completing a practice based PhD, Pen Dalton eschews conscious thought and works solely with stuff and the non-theoretical sense of painting. FREE. Thurs-Sat, 12-7pm. www.tokarskagallery.co.uk Until 6-15 February We are here Tokarska Gallery, 163 Forest Road E17 6HE A group show of Middlesex University ex-students and now practising artists linked by their place of study. www.tokarskagallery.co.uk/wearehere FREE. Thurs-Sat, 12-7pm. www.tokarskagallery.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

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October 2013 • Cover star: Two Pipe Problem • Local Hero: Roger Huddle Until 23 February 2014 Toys: a Serious Business Vestry House Museum, Vestry Road E17 9NH Waltham Forest has had a long history of toy manufacture. A hands-on exhibition which includes toys and games to look at and to try out. WedsSun, 10am-5pm. Free. vhm.enquiries@walthamforest.gov.uk www.walthamforest.gov.uk/vestry-house

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Making your move by poem by Niall Firth of Forest Poets There’s a shy glance over a chipped cup, an accidental brush of the sleeve as she got up but, oh God, you didn’t half make a right mess of it. Sure, there’s something to be said for the way you straightened your back and zipped up your coat, marched across the cafe and, as we all watched, jaw-dropped, asked for her number - shudder - while we sat heads down over our beans and chips, hoping the crash-clatter of fork on plate or the hissing steam of the coffee machine would drown out what we knew was going on over by the window.

Maybe that’s why, as you slipped back into your seat and calmy speared a cooling chip, we just passed the ketchup and didn’t say a bloody thing.

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 Thursdays LGBT Social support group ELOP Centre, 56-60 Grove Road Walthamstow E17 9BN LGBT Social Support group for people aged 18 and over. A space to meet each other, share experiences and socialise in a safe and welcoming environment away from the scene.

2.30-4.30pm. £2.

02085093898 or e-mail info@elop.org Wednesdays Stories and Sticking for Toddlers and their adults Significant Seams, 131 Wood Street E17 3LX This weekly workshop, planned by a trained nursery worker, engages young minds and their adults’ playful side in a bit of texture rich play. 1-2pm. £3.

Fridays Thank Fizz it’s Friday The William Morris Bar, 807 Forest Road E17 4JD Our seriously talented Funky young DJs generate a sweet vibe to get your weekend started and to shake off those work day blues. Free cheeseboard with every bottle of Champagne or Prosecco. 7pm til late. £2.00 entrance after 9.30pm

Mondays The Monday Club The William Morris Bar, 807 Forest Road E17 4JD Live Music Entertainment on at our Monday Club for those who, like us, work hard at the weekend or for those who need at least one more day of fun!

Relaxed atmosphere with the merest hint of decadence! 7-11pm.

Thursdays Acoustic Showcase @ 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. 7.30pm. gabriel4music@gmail.com for details or if interested in performing a set!

Classical Indian Singing - Khyal Arts The Mill, 7-11 Coppermill Lane E17 7HA. Classes are open to all regardless of background or ability. Group adult session 16 yrs+. First sessions FREE. Then £15 per session or £50 per 4 sessions. 1:1 sessions also available for ages 7-15 (email for more information) 10am-11am khyal.arts@gmail.com 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 Cool jazz in the afternoon The William Morris Bar, 807 Forest Road E17 4JD Cool jazz with top-line players from E17 Jazz Collective. FREE. 12.30-4.30 pm.

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

Classes/Courses 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. 6.30-9.30. £12. Materials provided.

To book email: info@tokarskagallery. co.uk ref: Life Drawing Class www.tokarskagallery.co.uk Wednesdays Learn to Knit with Maria and Sheila A Significant Seams, 131 Wood Street E17 3LX Learn to Knit in 2014 with the friendly and funny Maria and Sheila, much giggling to be expected! 11am-noon. £6.

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Love Walthamstow? Want the chance to help change the St James Street area for the better?

What is St James Big Local? The St James Street area of Walthamstow has won the opportunity of a £1 million grant from the Big Lottery as part of the nationwide Big Local initiative. The aim of the fund is to enable local people to make big lasting changes to the neighbourhood over the next 10 years.

But... for the area to qualify for the money, we need local people to get involved.

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5 mins to fill in our online survey and give us your ideas

help us with music, food or drink for one of our future parties or events

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chat about the Big Local with 6-8 of your neighbours and let us know their views

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lend as little or much IT support as you can spare

It’s easy, just email us stjamesbiglocal@yahoo.co.uk or visit stjamesbiglocal.co.uk or see our information board at the Crest Charity Shop, 55 Walthamstow High Street Mondays Five string banjo for adults Studio Office, Quaker Meeting House, 1a Jewel Road E17 4QU Bluegrass style three-finger picking classes.

Absolute beginners – Mons 7.30-8.30pm Improving beginners – Weds 6.30-7.30pm Improvers/intermediate – Mons 8.30-9.30pm For further info call Dick Smith 07903 419 691 or email dickbanjosmith@ gmail.com www.banjosmith.co.uk Wednesdays and Saturdays.

New course starts in January for beginners.

Ukulele classes for adults Studio Office, Quaker Meeting House, 1a Jewel Road E17 4QU Learn the ukulele or improve your skills with an experienced, professional musician in a fun and relaxed environment. Instruments not provided!

Easy/improvers – Weds 7.30-8.30pm Easy/improvers – Sat 10.30-11.30am Basic/beginners – Sat 11.30-12.30pm For further info call Dick Smith 07903 419 691 or email dickbanjosmith@ gmail.com www.banjosmith.co.uk Events marked

Fridays Herbal Medicine Sessions Lea Bridge Library community room, 382 Lea Bridge Road, Leyton E10 7HU New series of popular herbal medicine workshops for local ward residents and low-income families in particular.

Connecting whole health by exploring plants and people with local herbalists Rasheeqa Ahmad & Charm Elakil.

10am-noon. £3.

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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.

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.

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December 2013 • Cover star: David Humphreys • Local Hero: Nat Di Maggio Friday mornings (term time) Atty’s Musical Steps - Baby & Toddler Troupe Greenleaf Baptist Church, Greenleaf Road E17 6QQ 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 4m-3y, 40 mins. Discount for under-1s.

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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! No experience necessary. £7 Termly payment. 7.30-9.15pm.

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

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 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 Tuesdays Zumba® Fitness, with Chloe!

Walthamstow School for Girls, Church Hill E17 9RZ Wear low tread supportive trainers and bring a bottle of water to enjoy this exhilarating dance fitness class in a low pressure atmosphere! 7pm. £5 drop in - discounts for adv. payment.

079036 29636 chloe@dancechloe.com www.DanceChloe.com Tuesdays Learn Belly Dancing The Asian Centre, 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. 7-8pm. £5.

Sarah on 07735345635.

Wednesdays Body Tone Trinity Church Hall, Orford Road (entrance on West Avenue) E17 9QU Body Tone is a full body workout. Gentle aerobic warm up followed by exercises to target legs, bums and tums with fun combat elements to tone arms.

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Thursdays Healthworks in conjunction with DanceChloe - Circuit Training St Gabriel’s Family Centre, Havant Road E17 3JF A high impact exercise class for men and women who want to improve strength and stamina. Aiding weight loss and muscle tone in a friendly environment with variations for all levels. 7pm. £6 drop in - discounts for adv. payment.

079036 29636 chloe@dancechloe.com www.DanceChloe.com Thursdays Healthworks in conjunction with DanceChloe - Pilates St Gabriel’s Family Centre, Havant Road E17 3JF A functional exercise class to correct physical imbalances whilst improving posture and core stability. Please bring your Pilates mat and head block or contact me for advice on where to purchase these. 8.15pm. £12 drop in discounts for adv. payment.

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January 2014 • Cover star: Steven Smith • Local Hero: Jerome Anderson Thursdays Yoga Me Happy Quaker Meeting House, 1a, Jewel Rd E17 4QU Stretch and relax with yoga classes.

6.30pm. £9/8. www.yogamehappy.co.uk yogamehappy@yahoo.co.uk 07710 621 268 Sundays Yoga Me Happy Aveling Park Bowls Club, Lloyd Park E17 Stretch and relax with yoga classes.

9.30am and 11.30am. £9/8. Booking only. www.yogamehappy.co.uk yogamehappy@yahoo.co.uk 07710 621 268

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International Women’s Day 2014 2-8.30pm, Saturday 8th March 2014 Waltham Forest Assembly Hall, Forest Road, E17 4JF

What a woman’s worth in Waltham Forest?

To celebrate International Women’s Day 2014, Waltham Forest Women’s Network will be hosting the biggest women’s free event ever held in Waltham Forest, in partnership with the Council and community organisations, including Stow Roses, Waltham Forest Rising and Significant Seams. This is an opportunity for all local women to showcase their talents and services and to meet each other.

What’s happening? Performances such as DJ’s, Zumba, Circle Dancing, Belly Dancing, face painting, etc. with a grand finale fashion show of African, Asian & Vintage wear! We will have speakers, workshops, sessions on holistic therapies, education & career advice, money management, craft, textiles, etc. There will be stalls ranging from jewellery, clothes, henna designs and face painting to name a few, as well as community-based advice stands, Of course there will also be a variety of mouth watering food from our Food zone. What more do you want? Well there’s even a free drop-in crèche!!

This day is about celebrating women’s worth in society, so we say please come along, enjoy this day, take part and hear from our inspirational speakers including local women who have been successful in many walks of life.

This event is being supported by Waltham Forest Council and is a women-only event.

For further information you can contact Karen Flint at info.wfwn@gmail.com

Saturdays Pilates Classes Studio 2, Church Hill Studios, Stainforth Rd, E17 3RY We learn precise movement combined with specific breathing to improve posture, strength and muscular balance, helping to prevent injury in sport as well as everyday life. 9.2010.20am. £10 per class, or £45 for 5 classes (valid 8 weeks). adele.simor@gmail.com

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In December 2013 Walthamstow lost its own Hoover building.

If you saw the metal spring factory on Fulbourne Road opposite the entrance to Homebase, shrouded as it was by bland ugly grey cladding, you could be forgiven for overlooking its significance.

The planning committee overlooked its significance too when permission to demolish it was approved last year in the face of a heated campaign to preserve it. What was the fuss all about?

Well, it was a 1920s palace of industry, a camera factory masquerading as a 1980s factory unit. It was originally designed by renowned architects Wallis, Gilbert & Partners together with a veritable greatest hits of Art Deco factory buldings including the egyptian-inspired Caribonum factory on Etloe Road, Leyton in 1920 for the manufacture of typewriter ribbons, ones for Wrigley (1927) and Firestone Tyres (1928) and yes the 1931 Hoover building in west London, and also the slightly less iconic the Victoria Coach Station.

Flying the flag for Ensign Cameras (At Half mast) Danny Coope tells the story of a now lost gem of Walthamstow’s architectural and industrial heritage.

The gone but not forgotten Ensign factory in Walthamstow

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Anyway, let’s rewind time to 1837. There was a french painter called Louis Daguerre who had almost simultaneously invented photography at the same time as England’s William Fox Talbot was recording his bay window in Lacock Abbey for posterity.

Daguerre’s technique involved coating small, polished metal plates with light sensitive chemicals. These are exposed to light and shade, channelled through a lens to burn an image of the sitter or scene onto the plate. Exposures of at least a minute were needed, which explains some of the stony faced antique portraits you see. Another downside to the process was that Daguerreotypes were one-offs. Fox Talbot on the other hand was already one step ahead developing negatives from which multiple copies could be reproduced. Commercial photography was born.

London-based glass merchants on High Holborn, Antoine Claudet (another frenchman) and George Houghton, diversified into this new industry when Claudet managed to obtain instructions and a license directly from Louis Daguerre to set up a studio while Houghton concentrated on photographic supplies. Claudet sped up exposure times with different chemicals to the relief of his sitters and even invented the safe darkroom ‘red light’. Claudet died in 1867 but Houghton’s son was already on board and by 1903 they’d expanded into the property next door and were now making their own-brand film called Ensign Daylight Loading photographic roll film. Incorporating other smaller camera makers trade was now so

brisk for Houghton Ltd that they built a factory on Fulbourne Road in Walthamstow to fulfill demand, adding the Ensign brand to their range of cameras.

Joining forces with cinematic camera and projector manufacturer W Butcher staffing levels reached over 700, making it Britain’s (or as the publicity boasted the Empire’s) biggest camera factory.

The original 1920 building was designed by the aforementioned Wallis, Gilbert & Partners and was 280 ft wide and 75 ft deep. Constructed of reinforced concrete and featuring small-paned metal windows with brick spandrels, it was built initially as a single storey with four first floor offices, but later an entire first floor was added to increase production space. Even though the High Holborn headquarters were destroyed by bombing during WW2 the factory played its part in the war effort producing items for the armed forces. Sadly after the war demand had waned and despite various mergers, foreign imports finally took their toll and Ensign production moved to Clapham Common in 1955. It was the end of an era.

Wallis, Gilbert & Partners’ Caribonum factory in Leyton was pulled down in 1980 for redevelopment, the same year their Firestone Tyre factory building on the Great West Road was hastily demolished before it could be listed. And sadly, on our watch, the Ensign factory has been

pulled down too, but it’s in good company you might say. But the brand needn’t be forgotten, Ensign cameras live on in second-hand world. Look out for something like an Ensign Selfix or Ranger Special, you can pick one up for less than £50.

These cameras take what are known as ‘120’ rolls of film which is still being made and processed today. You can even buy it in colour! You’ll only get about a dozen photos per roll (with developing costs from £6) but once you get the knack of using these beautiful, Walthamstow-made cameras every photo you take will be imbued with a true romance and lo-fi quality that Instagram can only mimic.

The factory is gone, there’s no point crying over spilt developer (ironic pun intended) but a little bit of vintage Ensign technology could continue to fill our analogue family albums for years yet.

Sources: Form and Fancy: Factories and Factory Buildings

by Wallis, Gilbert & Partners, 1916-1939 by Joan S. Skinner; ensign.demon.co.uk; earlyphotography.co.uk; camerapedia. wikia.com

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In which architectural historian, Karen Averby uncovers curiosities and stories from Walthamstow’s rich and varied past.

Been down Pig Alley recently?

Have you ambled along Alfred Street, wandered down Warwick Road, or strolled through Stafford Road recently? You may have done so without realising, as these are just some of the Walthamstow roads whose names have changed over the years. These today are Comely Bank Road, Barratt Road and St Barnabas Road.

Nineteenth century Walthamstow rapidly grew from a village into a town, with a multitude of new streets being laid out from the 1860s onwards, alongside those already existing. Street naming wasn’t always cohesive and names were often changed for practical reasons, especially when there were streets with similar names. At one point, there were two Victoria Roads! Church Road was changed with Selborne Road East to St Mary Road in 1886, and Beulah Path, originally known as Pig Alley and also as Church Path was given its current name in 1891-2.

Confusingly, Vallentin Road was also called

Church Path between 1871 and 1879.

Street renaming often occurred when roads were incorporated. Part of Church Common Lane ran between what is now Third Avenue and St Mary’s churchyard and was renamed North Road in 1855, before becoming part of Orford Road c.1860, later joining with the stretch between Stanhope Road and West Avenue in 1886 to form the current Orford Road. The part of Hoe Street before Bell Corner was once Green Leaf Lane and was renamed Hoe Street North in 1889, the whole road being renamed Hoe Street c. 1894. In 1886 Forest Road was formed from several smaller roads, including Clay Street which ran between Blackhorse Lane and Wood Street.

It seems impossible to imagine that part of Lea Bridge Road was once named Chestnut Walk because it was lined with chestnut trees and that Marsh Street (renamed High Street in 1882) once led directly to the marshes and incorporated part of St James Street.

existent by 1892 but renamed Wolsey Road in 1898 and again as Wolsey Avenue in 1907, and Highfield Avenue, first occupied in 1936 but quickly renamed Bishop’s Close. James Road and St James Road, first occupied in 1867 were changed to Byron Road in 1886, while Hawkesley Terrace, in existence by 1884 was changed to Hawkesley Road in 1892 and renamed Southcote Road in 1911.

Other name changes include Blind Lane (became Wadham Road c. 1888), Vicarage Road (became Church Hill Road 1875), Munster Terrace (became Manby Road 1894, incorporated into Tenby Road 1909), Cromer Road (became Albion Road 1903), Kings Street (became Grange Road 1907), Grove Place (became Buxton Road 1886) and Chapel End Lane (became Chingford Road 1887).

Street renaming doesn’t often occur today, but as Walthamstow continues to develop, it would be nice to revisit abolished names in some form. Although perhaps not Pig Alley.

Often relatively new streets were renamed soon after being built, such as Ferndale Grove, www.archangelheritage.co.uk E-List_Quarter Page2.pdf 1 17/01/2014 17:41

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You had a less than conventional childhood.

I was born in Milan & grew up in rather random places including Stuttgart, Vienna, Lausanne, Lugano, Singapore as well as Iran. I was a child when we were evacuated out of Tehran when the Ayatollah revolution began. My mum tells me our next door neighbours, who were expats like us, were shot and killed as they hadn’t left in time What drew you to Walthamstow as a place to put down roots? It wasn’t a conscious decision. I drifted here when I got a job in London and met someone who was already living here. The reasons for staying are more compelling. The sense of community is incomparable with anywhere else I’ve attempted to call home.

Because of your background you describe yourself as an “outside observer of people, culture and places”. Do you think in some way seeing yourself as an outsider is a common experience for people with mixed heritage? It’s a good question but I can only speak for myself as I’ve discovered the experiences of mixed race individuals are not homogeneous. Growing up I knew no one else who was half French half Chinese. Being in a different country every few years meant the languages I was surrounded by was ever changing. I think I sought commonalities throughout and this is where my interest in the visual arts has come from. The sense of identity based around something as arbitrary as your place of birth is merely one of chance. I seem unable to partake in the tribal instincts behind cheering a national team, or indeed, the larger sense of patriotism, which is incidental as far as I see it. Part of me has always yearned for that sense of belonging, which I think, at 37, I have found in Walthamstow.

You are working on a photography project called “Mixed Race 17” for this year’s E17 Art Trail. I try to document an alternate sense of community & ownership; last year it was the Walthamstow Twitter community with their most cherished inherited objects. The year before I’d photographed Walthamstow’s dog-owning community. I am drawn to what we define as communities beyond religion or ethnicity & the things we attach ourselves to. Identities we choose from a self-construct 16

instead of one we inherit. Being mixed race presents a liberation of sorts as it’s up to you to define who you are & my starting point for this project asks what is race anyway? I’m looking for participants & am keen to hear from an older generation. I think their stories would differ from our experience today. Please email mixedrace17@yahoo.co.uk if you’d like to take part or visit Facebook.com/mixedrace17 for more information.

You’re one of the lucky few who live on Walthamstow Marshes. What do you love about them? The big sky. It changes every minute of every day and I can see why Luke Howard, the father of meteorology who lived up the road in the 1800s, devised a system for identifying the different types of clouds we know today.

The Mural on the Marshes has been a great success. It started when I got fed up of the constant cycle of uninspiring graffiti along the walls of the railway tunnel and I thought we could do something better. I wanted to celebrate the different wildlife which inhabit the marsh & it was a fantastic experience working with local & international artists. It was a team effort and I couldn’t have done it without the support of Clare Coghill, the ranger Gavin Johnson, as well as Katja Rosenberg, who kindly facilitated the children’s community days that formed our artists’ brief. The mural has proven a great way to reclaim the space, make it feel

safe once more whilst getting more visitors to discover the joys of the marsh.

You are now involved in the St James Street Big Local. I’m a believer that taking ownership of the place in which we live can collectively make a positive difference - whether it is to help set up a small residents group when I first moved here 15 years ago to the more recent Waltham Forest 4 Dogs community which represents 250 local dog owners in the borough. Individuals that get together can make things better & St James Street Big Local is just that. The steering committee of residents from all walks of life has secured funding & are looking for Street Champions as well as to employ an admin role to support our projects.

We have £1million over several years to implement our wish list. If you live around the St James area & want to be a part of how we can create a legacy for the area, contact Fiona or myself stjamesbiglocal@yahoo.co.uk Finally what would you like to see for the town in the next few years?

I’d like to see us to continue to welcome newbies to the area & afford them the generosity of letting them call Walthamstow home too. It baffles me that there is indifference to how local decisions which affect our lives are made & my wish is for more people to get stuck in!

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Walthamstow Diary Between forest and marsh lies the glorious Stow.

These are the tales and meanderings of a proud resident of E17 When I was at primary school we had one Acorn Electron computer that we all shared. I remember sitting with my friend Mark staring in amazement at its green flickering screen, we always felt like we were at the helm of The Starship Enterprise when it was our turn at the computer desk. Now of course most of us take technology for granted. I for one love my iPhone, camera, maps and internet. Communication is always at my finger tips. As much as I love technology, and I really do love technology, I also have a passion for old things.

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I love everything about this building, from the tall winding tower topped with a glass lantern that points the way home at night, to the classroom block built with bricks initialled by their makers. My favourite view of the Lighthouse is that from Downsfield Road when walking towards Markhouse, particularly in the spring when the cherry trees are in flower. The tower always looks spectacular against a blue sky. The design of the Lighthouse is down to Captain King of the Bullard King shipping line who insisted on the nautical theme, and thank goodness he did as the design gives us one of our most unique buildings. www.walthamstowdiary.com 18

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Spotted Walthamstow 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.

Bus Station photograph ©Peter Hall

‘I understand the reasoning behind the ultra violet lighting and booming classical music in Walthamstow Bus Station toilets, but does anyone else find that they turn the simple act of having a wee into a surreal experience?’

54 72 Sharan: It’s like having a pee in a spaceship!!

Sheree: The toilet doors should open with a ‘woooshhhh’ sound like Star Trek Steve: Is it Handel’s Water Music?

Sophie: I’ve fully laughed out loud while wee-ing before! As the music from Fantasia came on and I was sitting in a smelly loo in Walthamstow, hahaha.

Keith: The light, fine. The classical music I think is disgusting. The subtext seems to be that bored teenagers are vermin who can be cleared away by exposure to culture.

Mick: I don’t care what music they play (as long as it’s not jazz). I just wish they would stop smelling so bad!

Jolene: I often feel as though I’m in a film when waiting for a bus there. The music has a somewhat dissociative effect. ..

Adrian: Everything in Walthamstow Bus Station is a surreal experience.

‘There’s a girl with really short blonde hair (like Sarah Harding of Girls Aloud) that I see on the tube most days, when I get on at Blackhorse Road and I always find myself just looking at her. I wish I could talk to her but I can’t (she’s far out of my league ha-ha!)... If that’s you, or you know of her, this guy in the green parka jacket and puffed up hair thinks you’re amazing!

If only eh?!?’

67 33 Michael: Buy a bunch of roses one day, offer them to her and tell her you think she’s amazing.

Karen: Go for it, nobody is out of anybody’s league!

Emma: If someone gave me flowers on the

tube it would make my day!

Philip: Give a brief low-key smile with the eyes, maybe a nod of recognition. Three or four months later you might even ask her out.

Modern ‘courtship’ is an elaborate dance.

Melanie: Write a note and pass it to her Better still follow her to work and wait outside till she’s finished then follow her home. Girls love that.

Stirling: Sorry, I hate to be ‘that’ guy, but walking up to a random girl who you’ve never spoken to with a bunch of flowers is really creepy.

Michael: Looks like Sarah Harding on the tube, must be the Sound of the Underground.

‘Any fans of the Channel 4 series “Educating Yorkshire”? I loved it, so interested to hear that the secondary school, Frederick Bremer in Walthamstow has been asked to appear in the next series!’

56 10 Honey: Yay to Frederick Bremer. The kids are really excited!

Silvana: Apparently it’s going to be called, ‘Educating East London’ New neon sign at Cleveland Park Avenue with the slogan, ‘I’M IN LOVE WITH THE MODERN WORLD’, created by DJ Roberts.

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‘We live on Winns Terrace and a man knocked on our front door introducing himself as a neighbour that we may have seen around in passing. He wanted to ask us a ‘bit of a neighbourly favour.’

He had filled his car up with petrol and realised he had left his wallet at work and his other half wasn’t in, so could we help him out with £23 to pay for the petrol.

We have never seen this man before, and I remember someone posting something similar happening in the Wood St area a few months ago. He was in his 40s, black and tall, black jacket and short shaved hair.’

28 73 Comments, 41 Shares Anita: Happened to a friend of mine on Wood Street Peter: Had him at Blackhorse Road too.

Jan: Happened to us last summer.

Jale: He comes across totally genuine, he’s extremely convincing!!!

Spotted E17: We’ve had several posts about this, seems to happen A LOT. Please don’t fall for it and notify the police.

‘One of the comments, spotted on a collection of ‘wishes’ at the William Morris gallery. The caption reads, “Keep E17 a little bit shit so humans can afford to live here” 606 31 128 Shares Claire: Legend! That’s how I’ve been feeling.

Jeanette: Love it!

Andrew: I like it because it reflects how a growing number of people feel.

Sarah: This was my partner Danny Harrison aka @townsendlive on Twitter!

‘To the two lovely women who drove me home at 3am last night because I was lost (and drunk) past St James Street - thank you!!!’

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