The local history society for the Leyton & Leytonstone area of east London
Site last updated : 27 March 2013 : news item added to home page about blue plaque on Harry Beck’s website
13 March 2013 : amended membership form for a new membership to run until 1 June 2014
12 March 2013 added article about Cooper’s Lane
6 March 2013 : Brief details of David Bailey exhibition at the William Morris Gallery placed on the home (index) page; description of Leyton & Leytonstone Historical Society moved to a separate page of the website
4 March 2013 further increase in postage and packing charge to reflect Post Office prices
25 February 2103 : added link to ‘The View from the Bridge, Lea Bridge Heritage’
22 February : reinstatement of a more complete list of the Society’s publications and how to obtain them, including the Society’s latest publication
24 January : option added to download history walk leaflets for Leytonstone High Road and When Leyton was a Village
13 January 2013 : links added to News From Nowhere Club and a site about cinema manager Nat Matthews
5 December 2012 : addition of latest publication
3 December 2012 : link to the website of the Friends of Wanstead Parklands (which has considerable detail on the archaeology and history of Wanstead Park); home page link to Links page within the website restored
25 November : link to Karen Pamplin Browne’s ‘Leytonstone Museum’ project
7 November : link to website about the Leytonstone War Memorial
20 September a bit more detail about the two sessions in which children’s stories will be told by Jane Grell
19 August some errors corrected, such as missing text restored
14 August 2012 : update of reading list with the inclusion of ‘Leyton & Leytonstone Past & Present' by Alan Simpson
12 July 2012 : downloadable membership form updated to current version with programme of activities to May 2013
28 June 2012 : addition of programme of activities to May 2013
25 June : added link to the website of Waltham Forest Family History Society
4 April : change of venue and title of talk about Leytonstone High Road pubs
14 March 2012 : postage cost for publications increased; new publication : Dubbined Boots And Shin Pads, A History of Leyton Football Club by David Ian Chapman as a CD-ROM
29 February 2012 : links to Victoria County History and online copy of John Kennedy’s History of the Parish of Leyton
10 January 2012 : files for pages given names instead of numbers; downloadable versions of Wanstead Flats History Walks added
6 November 2011: changed appearance of web links and minor presentational changes to events pages
September: links to ‘London Historians’ and a new website for Walthamstow Historical Society;
