Leyton and Leytonstone local history reading list

The history of Leyton and Leytonstone does not have as many books as other places like Walthamstow.

• 'Leyton & Leytonstone Past & Present' by Society member Alan Simpson contrasts recent photos of our area with photos on old postcards.  The accompanying text is well researched.  This book is published by The History Press, and into its 2nd edition.
• The London Borough of Waltham Forest by Nigel Sadler in the Britain in Old Photographs series published by jointly by Waltham Forest Council and Sutton Publishing Limited
• Leyton and Leytonstone by Keith Romig and Peter Lawrence in the Archive Photographs Series originally published by The Chalford Publishing Company Limited and now by Tempus
• A Pictorial Review of Old Leytonstone by Peter Lawrence
• Waltham Forest 1910-1940, and Waltham Forest since 1940, both published by Walthamstow Historical Society
• Waltham Forest Oral History Workshop has written some good background to its projects, particularly "The Road to Jeremy's Ferry". Some of the Oral History Workshop's publications are only available on its website.
• Walthamstow and Leyton Tramways by Robert J Harley in the Tramway Classics Series published by the Middleton Press (not so much about buildings, of course).

The Council has also produced some free leaflets which you should find at libraries and information centres :

• Millennium Heritage Trail No. 2, Leytonstone
• Forest School Conservation Area
• Browning Road Conservation Area
• Leytonstone Conservation Area
• Listed Buildings in Waltham Forest
• Victorian Housing in Waltham Forest

Looking slightly beyond Leytonstone are these other free leaflets:

• Millennium Heritage Trail No. 4, Lea Valley
• Woodford Green Conservation Area
• Essex County Cricket Club Pavilion, Leyton.

You might also like to visit the Vestry House Museum, Vestry Road, Walthamstow Village. The Museum covers the whole Borough and is another place to look for the leaflets.

The local history society for the Leyton & Leytonstone area of East London

The best source for the history of Leyton and Leytonstone is a section of the Victoria County History of Essex previously re-published by Waltham Forest Council; the text is now available on the web.

A Church of England clergyman at the end of the 19th century wrote a wonderful history of the parish of Leyton.