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Hello and welcome to this new Leytonstone blog that aims to bring as much information about our wonderful corner of London together in one place. The aim is for this blog to be authored by as many...
View ArticleFilm Club meeting tonight
Leytonstone Film Club will be meeting tonight at The North Star, Browning Road to choose our films for May and June and discuss any other business and generally enthuse about film. Anybody interested...
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The film club chose the Oscar-winning I've Loved You So Long for the screening on 6th May
View Articlecinema history; a local history day in Walthamstow
Everyone welcome at a meeting of Leyton & Leytonstone Historical Society on Wednesday (11th March), 7.30pm at Leyton Sixth Form College 'From Magic Lantern to Multiplex'. Our speaker Richard Gray...
View ArticleWhat to do with Woolies
The Guardian has a story today about how with a buyer still not found for Woolies in Leytonstone Town Centre the building will revert to Council ownership. Cllr Pye has called for something with...
View ArticleM11 Protest Book Launch - 'Nine Miles'
'Nine Miles' is a book by Jim Hindle on anti-road protests in the 1990s. He will be at Hornbeam on Tuesday 17th March from 7.30pm to tell us about it, read some of it and show a short film. We also...
View ArticleWaltham Forest Mobility Forum
Waltham Forest Mobility Forum is a group which meets 3 times a year to discuss access issues in the borough. It's open to anyone with a disability who lives or works in the area. The chair (David...
View ArticleSuper 8 Cinefilm of Leytonstone
I'm trying to track down any old Super8 (cinefilm) of Leyton, Leytonstone and the surrounding area for a film-night showing old home-movies of the area. If anyone has some I'd love to hear from you....
View ArticleThe Leytonstone Pound
It was interesting to see that Brixton is launching its own currency - The Brixton Pound as an attempt to keep money in the local community. The idea is that you exchange sterling for The Brixton Pound...
View ArticleLeytonstone Artists Wanted!
If you haven't yet signed up to the Leytonstone Arts Trail, it's not too late.It's a collection of exhibitions taking place throughout Leytonstone during the period 27 June - 19 July , and more artists...
View ArticleEntries wanted for the FARA Photo Competition
Ferndale Area Residents Association (FARA) is holding a photo competition as part of Leytonstone Festival 2009. Anyone living, working or studying in Leytonstone can enter. Winners will be chosen at a...
View ArticleLet's Fill Leytonstone With Art!
Leytonstone Arts Trail is organising a drive to "Fill Leytonstone with Art" during the dates of the Trail: 27 June to 19 July.To help with this, we would like members of the community to put a piece of...
View ArticleArchive footage of Leytonstone
Ah, the 1930s - when men wore bowler hats, boys wore short trousers, and women... bustled along to do the shopping, according to the evidence.Click here to see a film of Leytonstone in 1938.It has a...
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