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LOUGHTON AND DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTERS

Second Index to the Newsletters on the LDHS Website: covering the Supplement to Newsletter 197 and Newsletters 198–225

www.loughtonhistoricalsociety.org.uk

C OMPILED BY TED MART IN

This Index will be updated at regular intervals.

All references are to the number of the Newsletter in which the subject appeared.

Titles of books and publications are in italic. Note. This is the second Index to the Newsletter, and starts from the Supplement to issue 197, and including issue 198. This index is based on the titles of articles and features only, with appropriate cross-references. Where the subject is not readily apparent from the article title there will also be another more precise reference. 1944 Miscellany Abridge aerodrome, 210, 222 Aerodrome, Loughton Air Park, 218 Actor, silent film, 208 Air crash in field, 197 Air Transport Auxiliary, 220 Alderseys of Chigwell, 214 Alderton Hall, 202 Ali, Muhammad, 201 Alice in Wonderland, Railways and steamships, 215 All Saints Church, Theydon Garnon people memorialised at, 205 Alston, Michael, 202 obituary, 225 Alvis car and Eric W Bass, 225 Ambulance Service, Chigwell UDC, 209, 210 Amusement parks, 204 Andalucia Star, sinking of, 200, 201 postscript, 201 Angela Caff, Buckhurst Hill, 224 Anti-Air War Memorial, restoration of, 205 Apprenticeship indenture, 210 Archaeology Holy Family Catholic School, Walthamstow, at, 213 Loughton Field 197, opportunity?, 207 Archie McDowall, Loughton Hero, 209 Arctic Convoys and Arctic Star, 202 Arrest housebreakers, 1823, 217 Mrs Despard, 217 Art historian and mural painter, Beatrice Playne, 214 Ashley Laminates, 207, 213 Ashton, Charles, 207 Askew, Lucy, oldest woman in England, 208, 209 Austin 7 van, 208

Australia, Epping in, 217 Powell family in, 219 Bald faced Stag Restaurant, Buckhurst Hill, 200, 201, 217 Baldwin, Stanley, 221 balloon ascent to Woodford, Coxwell’s, 216 Bass, Eric W, 225 Bax, Clifford, a writer’s view of Essex, 210 Bell Motor Hotel, Epping, 217 Bertram the Clown on Clacton Pier, 214 Beaulieu National Motor Museum, Bonhams at the, 208 Bedden family, 188, 216 Bedford, John Thomas, 202 Bedford Oak, 202, 205 Biner, Frank Amsden, 217 Biner family, 217 Blackhorse Road, Boys of, story of an elementary school war memorial, 213 Blake Hall station, 198 Bodgers Store, Ilford, 216 Bonhams at the Beaulieu National Motor Museum, 208 Bowerman, Bernard, 202 Bowmans Jewellers, 201 Bowtle, George, 220 Boys of Blackhorse Road, story of an elementary school war memorial, 213 Bressey, Sir Charles Herbert, 205 Brewster, Stan, 216 Brides in the Bath case, 20 Brigden, William, 200 British Empire Buckhurst Hill, and, 198 Clark’s Cottage, 198 British Newspaper Archive, 207 Broadstairs, Kent, 216 Broadway, 55, London, SW1, 202 Brown, [Lancelot], Capability 2016, 209, 211 [von] Brühl, George, 215, 223

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Buckhurst Hill Angela Caff, 224 Athenaeum, 203, 208 programme, 217 Bald faced Stag Restaurant, 200, 201, 217 Ball, 204 Bernard Bowerman, artist, 202 Blitz, 220 Bowls, the, 210 British Empire, and, 198 Chevalerie, Mathieu Louis Jules de la, 221 Choral Society, 218 Christmas at, before the war, 212 at Devon House, 1913, 219 postcard, 223 Clark’s Cottage, 198 Communist Party, 221 Community Association celebrates 70 years, 215 Cotton, Mary, and, 223 deeds of 10 Cherry Tree Rise, 219 Dursley or Jesmond, how a house gets its name, 208 Fazekas family of, 216 memories of Dr Fazekas, 217 Forest Side, 223 Friedlander, Violet Helen, poet and suffragette, 213 German schoolchildren, in, 1949, 220 Greenaway family, 220, 221 Griggs, Percy Walter, and the Unknown Warrior, 219 Griggs family, 220 hay, charge of stealing, 215 House, 217, 218 international relations, and, 207 International Stores, photo, 200 Ivydene, 209, 211 Jesmond or Dursley, how a house gets its name, 208 journey to, in 1926, 202 Kings Place, 214 laboratory wrecked, 220 Langfords, history of, 214, 215, 216 Luctons Avenue, memories of, 212 Medical Provident/Surgical Home, 219 memories of, 218, 222, 223 Military Service Tribunal 1916, 205 miracle cure at, 206 mystery object, Queen’s Road, 203 Old Buckwellians cricket team 1962, 213 Ormonde House, 220, 223 Palace Gardens, 220 peace worker, Alice Maud Stacy, 199 poet in, Edward Shillito, 217

Buckhurst Hill – cont postcards, 214 Christmas, 223 POW camp in, 205 story of, 220 Prince Alfred pub aka ‘Ting Tang’, 224 Queen’s Road, 209, 211 memories of, 212 mystery object, 203 Queensbury, lost mansion of, 208 rabbits in, Second World War, 198 Taunton House School, 221 York Hill Stores, 221 Radmall family, 221, 222 Red Cross, war service medals awarded in 1922, 212 Red House, 205, 223 Ridley family, 220 Roebuck, 217 Rowantree, 209, 211 St Elisabeth’s story, 221 St Mary’s Lodge, 212 St John’s church, bells, 220 servant, life as, in Victorian times, 199 Shillito, Rev Edward, MA (1872–1948), poet in, 217 singing in the Wilderness, 219 Sixty years ago, 221 Sophocles Xenophon Pantcheff, kite- maker of, 209, 211 Stag Restaurant, 200, 201 station cat, Henry, 224 story of a postcard, 220 ‘Ting Tang’ pub aka Prince Alfred, 224 travel in, 19th century, 200 volunteer fire brigade, 212 war damage in 1939–1945, 219 Wilderness, singing in the, 219 Buckner, Emily, 200 Burningham family, war service, 217 Bus

Crown Hotel, Loughton, at, 200 garage, Loughton, 199, 214

route 38A, 198 services, Epping Forest area, 201 Loughton in the 1930s, 225 tickets, 206 Butler Harris, Dr and Mrs, 213, 216 and the o’Meagher family, 216 Buxton, Mrs Edward North, death of, 225 Byron, Hugh, FRIBA, 216 Calkin, George Lance, 225 Calthrop, Everard Richard, 211 Capability Brown, 2016, 209, 211 Car bodies, glass fibre replacement, 207, 213 Caravan weekend, Will Francies’, 225

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Caribonum Company, 219 Carlingford School, 209 Carrett, Walter of the Rifle Brigade, 203 Carter, Terry, 201 Carter family, Loughton artists, 199 Cat, station, Buckhurst Hill, 224

Cat’s Brains, 224 in Loughton, 224 Catherine Gladstone Free Convalescent Home, 198 Cenotaph, The, 203 Central Line Blake Hall station, 198 Crash, 1953, 208 Chadwell Heath, 217 Chance find, 200 Charcoal burners in Epping Forest, 223 Charles II (1630–85), when Prince of Wales, William Harvey (1578–1657), and a portrait of, 209 Charter of Edward I, 205 Charter of the Forest 1217, 800th anniversary of, 213 Chauffeur, owner’s liability for unlicensed, 211 Chevalerie, Matheu Louis Jules de la, 221 Chidgey, Percy Harold, 211 Chigwell Alderseys of, 214 Ambulance Service, 209 Burningham family, war service, 217 clock and watchmaking, early 19th century, in, 221 hay, charge of stealing, 215 Home Guard, fragment, 225 King’s Head aka ‘Maypole’, poem, 203 Motorcycle at, 223 Motorcycle at King’s Head, 223 on the road to, Coaching in Essex, 213 rural idyll, 223 St Mary’s Church, 201 suspicious death at, 214 travel in, 19th century, 200 UDC Ambulance Service, 209, 210

Urban District Council, career as Councillor, 225 Uty, Dr Emmanuel, rector of, 1643, 225

Chingford Old Lea, the, 199 Parish Church, 222 Queen Elizabeth Riding School, 203 Queen’s visit, 1882, 220 Reservoirs, 218 Ridgeway Park Model Railway, 215, 217 Royal Forest Hotel, 204

Christmas at Buckhurst Hill before the war, 212 at Devon House, Buckhurst Hill, 1913, 219 Day travel 1916, 215 fare on Eastern Counties Railway, 223 Postcard, 223 Churchill, Sir Winston, Jubilee Banquet for, 212 Cinemas Early days of, in Walthamstow, 223 Loughton, 202 old, to new beginnings, 199 City Coaches, 201, 202 City of London Cemetery, 207 From Coffin Maker to Chief Commoner, 202 Civil War, English, Epping Skirmish, 1648, 213 Clacton Pier, Bertram the Clown on, 214 Clark’s Cottage, Buckhurst Hill, 198 Clarke,

Mary Anne (1776–1852), 211 W R and his car, 224

Clock and watchmaking, early 19th century, in Chigwell, 221 Clues in Fiction, 212 Coaching in Essex on the road to Chigwell, 213 Codner, Freda May, 218 Coffin Maker to Chief Commoner, 202 Colchester, Victorian, Prostitution in, 217 Cole, William, FLS (1844–1922) and Alfred Russel Wallace, 219 Collins, José, 207, 209 Commandos, 224 Commission of Lunacy, 207 Common or Garden Cows, 223 Conversion Car Bodies, Epping, 213 Copped Hall, a horror story, 198 fire at, 214 Coronation book, 199 party, 210 Cotton, Mary, and, 223 Councillor, career as, Chigwell UDC, 225 Cows

Common or Garden, 223 in my Front Garden, exhibition, 220 Coxwell’s famous balloon ascent to Woodford, 216Cricket Club, Loughton Amateur, 208 Old Buckwellians team, 1962, 213 Cripple children’s outing to Epping Forest, 224 Curtis, Lettice, 220 D’Oyley, William, 1812–1890, 198 Dad’s Army in 1909 – Motor Disguises, 208

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Dave Horatha & Co, Shepherd’s Bush, 225 Dawson, Rev William, blue plaque, 225 Day, Ted, wartime travels, 207

de Havilland DH60GIII Moth Major aircraft, 222 Death for Mr Death (and others), 208 Debden Congregational Church, 222 Estate, 199 Debden Hall, the story of – or is it?, 211 Denney, Anthony, 224 Despard, Mrs arrest of, 217 on women’s suffrage, 217 Despondent barmaid, 217 Determined suicide, the tragedy of the Todman family, 207 Devil, The, in Woodford Wells, 211 Devon House, Buckhurst Hill, Christmas at, 1913, 219 Dickens and Essex, 224 in Wanstead, 224 Dido, 221 Disney, Walt, 215 Dog Barber Shop, the, Loughton, 219 muzzling, 217 Doodlebug, Woodford Green, 198 Dowell, Nellie, 205 Durrant’s Handbook for Essex, 224, 225 Earthquakes in Essex, 216 Eastern Counties Railway Christmas fare, on, 223 J V Gooch, and, 212, 213 Eastern National, 201 Eating Out Guide 1968, 217 Edward I, Charter of, 205 Edward VII, visit to Epping, 208 Ellis, Mary, 220 Embezzlement in 1856, 212 Engineer or profiteer, 212, 213 English Civil War, Epping Skirmish, 1648, 213 English Heritage, changes at, 204 Epping air war comes to, 200 Angry Miller of and Long Meg, 216 attempted murder at, 217 Australia, in, 217 Bell Motor Hotel, 217 Cock Hotel, 201 Conversion Car Bodies, of, 213 Edward VII, visit to, 208 fairs, 203 Loughton railway, extension to, 205 mill, 216, 218, 219

Epping – cont motor industry, 213 motorcycling in 1910 at, 222 New Road, tea rooms, 221 Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee Celebrations, 218 sausage scandal, 214 Skirmish, 1648 woman’s hat on engine, 217 Epping Forest Bedford Oak, 202, 205 bus in 1952, 223 services, 201 Charcoal burners in, 223 Charter of the Forest 1217, 800th anniversary of, 213 Clark’s Cottage, 198 Cripple children’s outing to, 224 District, see Epping Forest District donkeys, leaves, 1908, 200 Easter Hunt, 1807, 201 Edward VII, visit to, 208 first holiday in Essex, in, 203 from Baldwins Hill (postcard), 198 Imprisonment without fine, 212 in tickets, 220 in winter, 212 lakes, 199 lopping annual demonstration, Loughton, 218 rights, 217 LNER poster, 201 motor bus 38A, 198, 223 motor outing for cripples, 220 mystery painting, 202 natural playground, 203 oldest tree in, 204 poaching affray, 217 poor children’s motor holiday in, 214 prairie wolves in, 211 Queen’s visit, 1882, 220 Saving, 222 visit to, by Edward VII, 208 walkers, poem, 200 Warren House, Loughton, bomb damage in 1944, 212 Log Yard at, 215 wife murder in, 205 Epping Forest District new guide booklet, 224 Eppingen, Germany, 219 Epstein, Jacob, 202 Essex a writer’s view of, Clifford Bax, 210 and the Second World War: Under Fire, 208

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Essex – cont childhood, My Dad’s a Policeman, 215 coaching in, on the road to Chigwell, 213 Countryside magazine, tribute to, 209 Dickens and, 224

Durrant’s Handbook for, 224, 225 earthquakes in, 216 eccentrics, 221 Field Club, 219 first holiday in, 203 history, new book on, 214 Motor Club, 217 Cripples Fund, 225 motor cycle gymkhana, 211 motoring, suggested retrogression, 215

Radical, 220 ramble in, and Suffolk, 205 unusual vehicle, in, 206 Victoria County History of, 205, 213

wills, 220, 221, 224, 225 West, Motorcycle Club, 220 Women: Adversity, Adventure and

Aspiration, 220 Essex Countryside magazine, tribute to, 209 Essex House Kindergarten and Preparatory School, 210 Extensions, house, 223 Fairs and markets, 203, 204, 205. See also Funfairs background, 203 Charter, 203 hiring, 203 local markets and, 203 mop, 203 statute, 203 Theydon Garnon, 205 Fazekas family of Buckhurst Hill, 216 memories of Dr Fazekas, 217 felo de se, case of drowning, Loughton, 219 Festival of Britain, 206, 207, 210 Film, silent, actor, 208 Fire Brigade, West Ham & its, 223 First World War Archie McDowall, Loughton Hero, 209 Cenotaph, The, 203 fifteen remembered lives, 206 funfairs, and, 204 London air raids, 203 memories of, 213 Peter Paisley, and, 206 Redbridge and, 205 Red Cross, war service medals awarded in Buckhurst Hill, 1922, 212 schoolboy’s perspective, 203 thankful villages, 203 Walter Carrett of the Rifle Brigade, 203

First World War – cont Zeppelins, Looking for at Leyton, 208 Fletcher, Henry Marshall, 204, 205 Football Greenwood, Ron, thinking man’s manager, 198 in Loughton, 211 Foreigner, assault by, 199 Forged ‘characters’ [references], 217 Four-in-hand, horse-drawn brakes of the early 1900s, 207 Fraenkel, Elsa, sculptor, 217 Francies, Henry A, career in Loughton, 203 Francies, Will, 220, 221 Andalucia Star, sinking of, and, 200, 201 Caravan weekend, 225 Diaries, 200, 201 Down Memory Lane, 218 Francies family, transport and the, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224 Friedlander Heinz Ludwig, English adventure, 1938, 222 Violet Helen, Buckhurst Hill poet and suffragette, 213, 216 Funfairs, 204 eighteenth century, 204 inventions, 204 locomotives, 204 popularity, 204 razzle dazzle, 204, 205 rides, 204 Great War and after, 204 Gatehouse Restaurant, South Woodford, 217 Gibson, Archibald Leslie, 215 Gill, Eric, (1882–1940), 197 Supp and Edward Johnston, 197 Supp Gill sans, typeface, 197 Supp Gillingham, D W, 205 Girl’s Own Paper, The, 218 Girling, William, 218, 219 Glass fibre replacement car bodies, 207, 213 Gooch, John Viret (1812–1900), 212, 213 Gower, Pauline, 220 Gray, Imogen, 212 Great Eastern Railway clerk in trouble, 217 Engine No 564, 214 Lord Salisbury, and, 216 Great War, see First World War Greenaway family, 220, 221 Greenwood, Ron, thinking man’s manager, 198 Griggs, Percy Walter, and the Unknown Warrior, 219 Haining, Peter, 201

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Hair Powder Tax, 215 Hardie, Keir in Loughton, 205 Hart Dyke, Lady Zoë, 218 Harvesting wheat under fire, 198 Harvey, William (1578–1657), and a portrait of Charles II (1630–85), when Prince of Wales, 209 Hay, charge of stealing, 215 Heiress, match girl, and, 205 Herbert, James, 198 Hewlett, Bernard, 202 Hidden Histories, 225 High Beech, King’s Oak, 198, 199 High Stone, Hollybush Hill, 202 Hitchcock, Alfred, in Leytonstone, 215 Holiday, first in Essex, 203 Holidays near London, 213 Holocaust Survivors Exhibition, 222 Home Guard fragment, Chigwell, 225 Loughton shelter, 219 Wartime: Diaries for 1944 and 1945, 219, 220 Horse, A, and his master, 211 Horse-drawn brakes of the early 1900s, 207 Horsemeat fit for human consumption, 198 House Deeds, 208 Housing quality in the 1930s, 210 Howes, Daphne, 199 Hospitals lost, of London, 198 Whipps Cross, 198 Hughes, Joan, Loughton’s ATA pilot, 220 Hurst House, Woodford Green, 204 Hutt family, 220, 221, 222 Ice cream queen, Agnes Bertha Marshall, 219 Ilford, Bodgers Store, 216 Imprisonment without fine, 212 Indenture, apprenticeship, 210 Inskip, Betty, 214 International Stores, photo, 200 Invalid collecting debt from Queen, 217 Johnston, Edward, 197 Supp Jubilee Banquet for Mr Churchill, 212 Keen, Vera, 212 Keep yourselves warm, 220 Kelsey, Mrs, 209, 211 Kelvedon Hatch, Nuclear Bunker, 198 King Charles II (1630–85), when Prince of Wales, William Harvey (1578–1657), and a portrait of, 209 Edward I, Charter of, 205 Edward VII, visit, 208

King – cont George V and Queen Mary at Whipps Cross Hospital, 198 Leicester and Loughton, of, 199 King’s Head Chigwell, motorcycle at, 223

North Weald, 217 King’s Oak, High Beech, 198, 199 Kingfisher restaurant, Woodford Green, 217 Kipling [Rudyard] at Goldings Hill Farm, 221 Kirkland, Dr Gerald, 207 Kirkpatrick, Colonel Ivone, 218 Knight, Alfred, Ltd, piano makers, 203 LDHS, member’s memories, 206 Les Corbeaux skiffle group, 216 Lester, Henry, and the Loughton shipping connection, 206 Lester, Muriel, 205 Leyton, Looking for Zeppelins at, 208 Tramway archaeology, 217 Leytonstone Alfred Hitchcock in, 215

Mackay, W P, collapsible tricar, and, 220 St John’s Church, 204 Life in Loughton 1926–46, 202 London Churches, 221 dock scene, 202 Mithraeum, 217 Long Meg and the Angry Miller of Epping, 216 Lord Salisbury and the GER, 216 Lost hospitals of London, 198 Loughton 1820, in, 210

1861, in, 220 1925, in, 218,220 1929, in, 223 1930s and 40s, in the, 225 1940s and 1950s, in, 206 1941, 213 Air crash in field 197 Air Park, Abridge Aerodrome, 218 air raid shelter, Goldings Hill, 212 Albion Hill, No 7, 214, 216 school, 199 ‘Aldreth’, 23 Alderton Hill, 206 Alghers House, found to be medieval, 212 Amateur Cricket Club, 208 Soiree dansante, 225 an island?, 211 Archie McDowall, Hero, 209 artists, more, 199 Askew of Smarts Lane, 215, 216

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Loughton – cont ATA pilot, 220

author, new,217 Bag of Nails, 205

Baldwins Hill, 198 bananas in, 202 bandstand opened, 200 Bass, Eric W, of The Elms, Church Lane, 225

bombs, 205 Bosworth’s butchers, 217 Bowmans Jewellers, 201 Brown’s no longer of, 216

Bull’s Head, public-house, Sunday customers, 225

bus Crown Hotel, at, 200 garage, 199, 214, 223 in 1952, 223 route 20, 223 38A, 198, 223 services in the 1930s, 225 tickets, 206

Butler Harris, Dr and Mrs, 213 cars, early, in, 216 Carlingford School, 209 Carnival, 225

childhood, reminiscences, 200 Christabel Pankhurst in, 202 churches, 203, 204, 206 Club, 225 colour, in, 1939, 200 Communal Restaurant Scheme, 212 Community Tree Strategy, 206 County High School for Girls Miss Morell, of, 225 Preparatory Department, 211

Cows in my Front Garden, exhibition, 220

Crown Hotel fire, at, 1893, 200 forecourt, buses, 200

Dawson, Rev William, blue plaque, 225 Declaration, 215 doctors, 213, 214 Dog’s Barber Shop, the, 219

Dragons, 221 a house and its genius, 204 more about, 208 Drive, The, 223 drive slowly in, 217 early cars in, 216, 221

Ellis, shoes, 206 embezzlement in 1856, 212 Essex House Kindergarten and Preparatory School, 210 Europlate Convention 2018, in, 218

Loughton – cont Extensions, house, 223 felo de se, case of drowning, 219

field 197, archaeological opportunity?, 207 fireworks, in, 40s and 50s, 201 Fletcher, Henry Marshall, 204, 208, 221 football in, 211

Francies family, transport and the, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224 Henry A, career in, 203 Will, 200, 201, 218 Gandhi, in, 218 gardens 1930s and 1940s, 206 lost, in, 206 gas lamps. in, 225 Goldings Hill air raid shelter, 212 farm, Kipling at, 221 great fire at Sadlers Livery Stables, 200 Great Woodcote Park, 217 Greenaway family, 220, 221 Hall, destruction of by fire, 204 hand stamp, 222 Harwater Estate, 211 Henry Lester and shipping connection, 206 High Road No 51 old stagers, 204 Home Guard 1944, 216 shelter?, 219 Wartime: Diaries for 1944 and 1945, 219, 220 hotels in, 1966–67, 213

Hutt family, 220, 221, 222 in 1820, 210

in 1861, 220 in 1925, 218,220 in 1929, 223 in the 1930s and 40s, 225 in 1940s and 1950s, 206 in 1941, 213 in old newspapers, 209 in Wartime: Diaries for 1944 and 1945, 219, 220 Keir Hardie in, 205 king, Leicester and, of, 199 Knight, Alfred, Ltd, piano makers, 203 Kwick Klean in, 215 Life in 1926–46, 202 1940s and 1950s, 204 Lincoln Hall and Loughton Brotherhood 206 clock, 206

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Loughton – cont little blitz in, 211 Lodge and Mary Anne Clarke, 211 lopping, annual demonstration, 218 Loughton Brotherhood and Lincoln Hall 206 Low’s Estate, 216, 219 Lowrey, Sir Joseph, 222 Luckings family, 223 Manor Road, wintry scene, 211 Meadow Road, VE day in, 206 Mee, Arthur, and, 203 memories of, 206 Military Band, 201 motor cars, early, in, 216, 221 Motor Cycle and Car Club, 219 murder novel set in, 205 mystery cottage, 208, 210 mystery house, another, 206 newspapers, first mention of, in, 201 novelist, another, 214 Oakwood Hill, Loughton Way and, food for thought, 205 Old Church, see St Nicholas Church Outreach Day, 4 July 2015, 205 Plume of Feathers, 203

Public-house, Sunday customers, 225 Police Station, 207 postcards, 216 Pullman Coaches of, 205 rabbits in, Second World War, 198 races, Woodford and Loughton, 208 railway, 210 extension to Epping and Ongar, 205 station, 1959, 208 accident, 14 Aug 1884, 199 in the 1960s, 207 strange death on, 210 tickets, 207 Review, 222 Ripley Grange, 225 roadside pond, 205 Roman villa in?, 212 Sadler’s Livery Stables, great fire at, 200 Salcombe College, 217 St Ethelburga’s Home for Girls, 225 St Nicholas Church, 203, 204, 206 and Russian Orthodox church, 219 new book, 206 Salcombe College, 204 Sandell, H H, bakers, 206 School, 203 my family’s part in its history, 204 sculptor, new,217 sheep stealing, in, 203 shipping connection, Henry Lester, and, 206 shopping, 200

Loughton – cont shops, 209, 211, 216 Shrubbery, The, 216 silent film actor, 208 Silver Jubilee 1977, in, 218 Skateboarding and ferreting forbidden Austen Close, 219, 221 Smarts Lane, 215 and butchers’ shops, 216 Askew of, 215, 216 Soapsud alley, 217, 218 Standard, The, 216 Staples Road School, 201, 216, 222 c1954, 214, 216 girls, c 1910, 200 in the 1940s, 219, 220 station, 210 1959, 208 accident, 14 Aug 1884, 199 in the 1960s, 207

in the snow 220 summer treat to for employees, 219 Swiss Cottage, 202 ticket fraud, 200 travel in, 19th century, 200 trees, and, 206 Union Church Cub-Scout Group, 207, 209 VE day in Meadow Road, 206 Victor’s, 205, 206

Victorian policeman, 220 Victory Road Council Houses, 215 view of, in the 17th century, 203 village of ‘London’s Forest’, 214 Volunteers, 211 Warren House, bomb damage in 1944, 212 Warren Hill Estate, 211 House, 203 Warriner’s Building Supplies, 225

Wartime Diaries, 219, 220 White Lodge, 208 Way and Oakwood Hill, food for thought, 205 White’s Directory of Essex, extract, 199 William Morris visits, 200 Wings for Victory Week 1943, 216 witchcraft in Tudor, 214 York Hill, motorcycle on, 222 Loughton County High School for Girls preparatory department, 211 Loughton Hall, destruction of by fire, 204 Loughton in the 1930s and 40s, 225 Loughton in Wartime: Diaries for 1944 and 1945, 219 Loughton Lodge and Mary Anne Clarke, 211 Loughton Motor Cycle and Car Club, 219

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Loughton School, 203 my family’s part in its history, 204 Loughton Union Church Cub-Scout Group, 207, 209 Loughtons, a tale of two, 219 Love in lodgings, 217 Lowrey, Sir Joseph, 222 Luckings family, 223 Lunacy, Commission of, 207 Lusty family, 203, 204, 216 Flight Lieutenant Ken, 216 McDowall, Archie, Loughton Hero, 209 Mackay, W P, 220 Maid of the Mountains, last call for, 207 Man in woman’s clothing, 216 Mann, Johnnie, Supp 197, 198 Markets and fairs, 203, 204, 205, See also Fairs and markets; Funfairs Theydon Garnon, 205 Marshall, Agnes Bertha, ice cream queen, 219 Match girl and heiress, 205 May Morris: Art and Life, New Perspectives, 215 Meakins, Eveline Daisy, 203 Medical Provident/Surgical Home, Buckhurst Hill, 219 Mee, Arthur, and Loughton, 203 Melox dog foods, 224 Memories of two World Wars, 213 Metropolitan Police cloak hook, 218 Military Service Tribunal 1916, Buckhurst Hill, 205 Mithraeum, London, 217 Morrell, Miss J M, 225 Morris: May, Art and Life, New Perspectives, 215 Morris, William, visits Loughton, 200 Motor and motoring Disguises – Dad’s Army in 1909, 208 industry, Epping, 213 One man and his car, 224 speed limit, 223 Motor bus and motorcycling, 223 Motorcycling Chigwell, 223 Epping, 1910 at, 222 Motor bus, and, 223 Speed limit, 223 York Hill, Loughton, 222 Muir, Frank, 198, 219 Mural painter and art historian, Beatrice Playne, 214 Murch, Spencer Harris Hope, 216 Murder, novel set in Loughton, 205 wife in Epping Forest, 205 woman and child, Waltham, 200 Murray, Lady Heather of Epping Forest, 218

My Dad’s a Policeman, Essex childhood, 215 ‘Naked Beauty’, 204 National Motor Museum, Bonhams at the Beaulieu 208 Newman, Augustus Charles, VC, 224 Newspapers old, Loughton, in, 209 Welsh miscellany, 217 Newsletters 200th issue, 200 feedback on earlier, 214 Noel Park Estate, an early garden suburb, 208 project, 202 V1s, V2s, 202 Norman, Barry B, 216 North London, Spas of, 208 North Weald Airfield Museum, 216 King’s Head, 217 Nuclear Bunker, Kelvedon Hatch, 198 Old Buckwellians cricket team 1962, 213 Oldfield, Josiah, 218, 219 Ongar 1938 pilgrimage to, 213 Loughton railway, extension to, 205 memories of, 208 Orchards East, 218 Outrage!, 202 Pantcheff, Sophocles Xenophon, kite-maker of Buckhurst Hill, 209, 211 Paisley, Peter Looking back but not in anger, 206 Pankhurst Christabel, in Loughton, 202 Sylvia, 205 Photo, identify person?, 220 Piano makers, Knight, Alfred, Ltd, 203 Pink Pills, 206 Plant a tree in ’73 Playne, Beatrice, mural painter and art historian, 214 Poem, Epping Forest walkers, 200 Lady Mary Wroth, 216 ‘Maypole’, 203 Pohl, Dr Donald, 218 Police Metropolitan, cloak hook, 218 Station, Loughton, 207 Policeman, My Dad’s a, Essex childhood, 215

Policeman, Victorian, 220 Polite request, 1908, 200 Pond punch, tasting notes, 224

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Poor children’s motor holiday in Epping Forest, 214 Post Office Loughton hand stamp, 222 Railway, 217 Postcards love story in, 222 story of, 220 POW camp in Buckhurst Hill, 205 Powell family in Australia, 219 Prairie wolves in Epping Forest, 211 Printer’s error, 217 Proofreader, The: another job gone, 211 Prostitution in Victorian Colchester, 217 Public-house, Sunday customers, 225 Pullman Coaches of Loughton, 205, 206 Queen Elizabeth Riding School, 203 Rabbits in Loughton and Buckhurst Hill, Second World War, 198 Radical Essex, 220 Radmall family, 221 tea rooms, 222 Railways Alice in Wonderland and steamships, 215 Blake Hall station, 198 Buckhurst Hill station cat, Henry, 224 Central Line crash, 1953, 208 clerk in trouble, 217 Eastern Counties Railway, 212, 213, 223 Great Eastern Railway, q.v. Gooch, J V, and 212, 213 Loughton, 210 branch, 212, 213 extension to Epping and Ongar, 205 station, 1959, 208, 220 accident, 14 Aug 1884, 199 in the 1960s, 207 tickets, 207, 220 strange death on, 210 Supremely ridiculous scene on, 205 Post Office, 217 Ridgeway Park Model , 215, 217 tickets, before Oyster Cards, 207 woman, 218 Rainham Hall Who’s living at, 224 Ramble in Essex and Suffolk, 205 Rampston, Robert, 201 Raymond, Sir Charles, of Valentines, 207 Razzle dazzle, 204, 205 Red Cross, war service medals awarded in Buckhurst Hill, 1922, 212 Red House, Buckhurst Hill, 205 Redbridge and the First World War, 205 Reformation, 500th anniversary of, 213 Rendell, Ruth, the first published work of, 219

Repton, Humphry (1752–1818), 218 Ridgeway Park Model Railway, 215 Ripley Grange, 225 River Roding, 198, 223 Robertson, Vernon Alec Murray, 216 Roding Valley, chronicler of, 205 Roebuck, Buckhurst Hill, 217 Roman villa in Loughton?, 212 Round Table Book Club, Wanstead, 1916–2015, 211 Royal family, genealogy of, 223 Royalty in Essex, Coronation book, 199 Russell, Professor Ralph, 200 Russian Orthodox church and St Nicholas church Loughton, 219 St Chad’s well, 217 St Ethelburga’s Home for Girls, Loughton, 225 St John’s Church, Leytonstone, 204 St Nazaire raid, 224 St Nicholas Church, Loughton, 203, 204, 206 and Russian Orthodox church, 219 new book, 206 St Paul’s Cathedral, Tillingham and, 205 Salcombe College, 204 Salisbury, Lord, and the GER, 216 Saving Epping Forest, 222 Scrutton, Lord Justice (1856–1934), 200, 201 Scrutton family, 200 Seaside place, my favourite, 216 Second World War 1944 Miscellany air war comes to Epping, 200

Communal Restaurant Scheme, 212 Day, Ted, and, 207 harvesting wheat under fire, 198 last genuine bomb-sites one of, 199 Loughton, little blitz in, 211 memories of 213 Peter Paisley, and, 206 Essex and, Under Fire, 208 V1s, V2s menace from the skies, 198 more details, 198 my memories of, 198 Noel Park, 202 Woodford Doodlebug, 198 Servant, life as, in Victorian Buckhurst Hill, 199 Sewardstone Manor, Sothebys of, 205 Shambrook, Rona, author, 217 Shepherd’s Bush, Dave Horatha & Co, 225 Shillito, Rev Edward, MA (1872–1948), poet in Buckhurst Hill, 217 Shipping Henry Lester and Loughton’s connection with, 206 Southend, to, by steamer, 209, 210

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Silberrad, Dr Oswald, 220 Silk production, 218 Silver Jubilee 1977, in Loughton, 218 Silwood, William, 202 Skinner, Charles E, 200 Slum I loved, Kings Place, Buckhurst Hill, 214 Smith, George Joseph, 201 ‘Snapping the Stiletto’, 220 Snaresbrook House, 204 The Lodge, 204 Sophocles Xenophon Pantcheff, kite-maker of Buckhurst Hill, 209 Sothebys of Sewardstone Manor, 205 Southend down to, by City Coach, 201 to, by steamer, 209, 210 Southside House, Wimbledon, 219 Spas of North London, 208 Wanstead, 209 Speed limit, 223 Stacy, Alice Maud, 199 Stag Restaurant, Buckhurst Hill, 200, 201 Stamp, Loughton hand, 222 Staples Road School, 201, 216 c1954, 214, 216 girls, c 1910, 200 in the 1940s, 219, 220 Staples Road Pond, 1903 Steamer, Southend to, by steamer, 209, 210 Steamships, Alice in Wonderland, Railways, and, 215 Stevens, Frances Worrall, 199 ‘Stiletto, Snapping the’, 220 Stone piano, where can you find a, 207 Sudetenland Crisis, 215, 223 Suffolk, Ramble in Essex and, 205 Suffragette Friedlander, Violet Helen, Buckhurst Hill poet and, 213 Suicide, determined, the tragedy of the Todman family, 207 Take it from him, 198 Taunton House School, 221 Tax, Hair Powder, 215 Tea substitute, 217 Thankful villages, 203 Theydon Bois All Saints Church, people memorialised at, 205 as I knew it, 199, 200, 201 Basque children and, 215 Durrant’s Handbook for Essex, in, 225 in 1876, 212 level crossing, 208 market and fair, 205 Charter of Edward I, 205

Theydon Bois – cont more on, 206 Moriarty, R C, van, 208 Theydon Garnon Durrant’s Handbook for Essex, in, 225 Theydon Mount Durrant’s Handbook for Essex, in, 225 Three blind horses, 201 Tickets bus, 206 railway, 207 Tillingham and St Paul’s Cathedral, 205 Todman family, tragedy of, 207 Tooley and Foster partnership celebrates 125 years, 216 Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, 225 Tramway archaeology in Leyton, 217 Transport, Francies family, and, 219, 220, 221,

222, 223, 224 Tricar, collapsible, 220 Tumbleweeds skiffle group, 216 Turnpike age, 198, 199 Underground see Railways Under Fire: Essex and the Second World War, 208 Undeserved honour, 217 Unravelling the Yarn, 218 Unsung hero, 216 Unto the Fields, 205 Uty, Dr Emmanuel, rector of Chigwell, 1643, 225 V1s, V2s menace from the skies, 198 more details, 198 my memories of, 198 Noel Park, 202 Woodford Doodlebug, 198 Valence House, 211 Valentines, Sir Charles Raymond of, 207 Vegetarian regime, 217 Victor’s, Loughton, 205 Victoria County History of Essex, 205, 213 Newport volume, 207 Victorian Colchester, Prostitution in, 217

Policeman, 220 Villages, thankful, 203 Visitations in the Archdeaconry of Essex, 1683, 203 von Brühl, Hans Moritz, 215, 223 von Brühl, George, 215, 223 Wallace, Alfred Russel, and William Cole, FLS (1844–1922), 219 Waltham, murder, woman and child, 200 Waltham Abbey, fairs, 203

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Walthamstow Archaeology at the Holy Family Catholic School, 213 Boys of Blackhorse Road, story of an elementary school war memorial, 213 Early days of the cinema, in, 223 Historical Society, centenary, 203 Ice cream queen, Agnes Bertha Marshall, 219 Marshes bomb crater pond, 199 Wanstead Dickens in, 224 Kinema, 223 Park, 200 Round Table Book Club, 1916–2015, 211, 212 Spa, the, 209 WarGen, 222 Warren House, Loughton, bomb damage in 1944, 212 Log Yard at, 215 Warren Hill Estate, 211 House, 203 Warriner’s Building Supplies, 225 Was this the ultimate folly?, 198 Waverley, The, 209, 211 Website, useful, 223 Welsh newspaper miscellany, 217 West Essex Motorcycle Club, 220 West Ham & its Fire Brigade, 223 Westcliff-on-Sea Motor Services, 201 What did we do in the 40s and 50s?, 204 Whipps Cross Hospital their Majesties at, 198 White’s Directory of Essex, extract, 199, 201 Wilderness, Buckhurst Hill, singing in the, 219 William Cole, FLS (1844–1922) and Alfred Russel Wallace, 219 William D’Oyley 1812–1890: Loughton Surveyor and Superintendent of Epping Forest 1876–1879, 198 William Harvey (1578–1657), and a portrait of Charles II (1630–85), when Prince of Wales, 209 Willow Cottage, Curtis Mill Green, end of an era, 213 Wimbledon, Southside House, 219 Witchcraft in Tudor Loughton, 214 Women suffrage, Mrs Despard on, 217 Essex: Adversity, Adventure and Aspiration, 220

Woodford and Loughton races, 208 balloon ascent to, Coxwell’s, 216 Catherine Gladstone Free Convalescent Home, 198 City of?, 203 Jubilee Banquet for Mr Churchill, 212 Meet, 199 South Gatehouse Restaurant, 217 Woodford Green Anti-Air War Memorial, 205 Doodlebug, 198 Hurst House, 204 Kingfisher restaurant, pool and club, 217 Woodford Hall, 198 ‘Woodford Meet’, 199 Woodford Wells Club, 199 Devil, The, in, 211 Spa, 208 Wroth. Lady Mary, 216 Zeppelins, Looking for at Leyton, 208