Walter Spradbery News Today

There is a strip of forest land just north of St John’s church at Buckhurst Hill, known as The Wilderness. This was the name of a house which…

Have you ever heard of Walthamstow’s North Bank House? It is one of the areas remaining 18th century mansions, although it is perhaps easily missed, as it is now part of a cluster of former hospital buildings at the corner of Forest Road and Shernhall Street, better known as Thorpe Coombe Hospital. North Bank occupied a great location, in what was then a rural part of Essex with views towards the Lea Valley and Epping Forest, yet was also alongside a thoroughfare (Clay Street, now Forest ...