A magnificent book.
WEST ESSEX GAZETTE
Never before has a book portrayed the historic Epping Forest area of Great Britain in this way: through hundreds of 'then and now' comparisons, recording the changing scene since the earliest days of photography. From Forest Gate in the south to Epping in the north; from Chigwell and Abridge in the east through Chingford to the great abbey of Waltham in the west, a wide-ranging pot-pourri of contemporary extracts has been blended with more than 1,400 photographs, drawings and maps, together with specially-taken aerial photographs, to trace the events and developments which have shaped the locality. The illustrations being combined with a text researched mainly from newspapers, magazine articles and books of the time, Epping Forest Then and Now provides a fascinating contemporary record that brings to life the local and social history of the area and does so with a due sense of the past to set beside the present.
ISBN 0 900913 39 8
SIZE 12"×8½"
480 PAGES
1412 ILLUSTRATIONS
£39.95
CODE F010
THE FOREST
DEER
ANCIENT CAMPS
CRIME
ROADS
RAILWAYS
SNARESBROOK AND WHIPPS CROSS
WANSTEAD
WOODFORD
BUCKHURST HILL
CHIGWELL
LOUGHTON
CHINGFORD
HIGH BEACH
THEYDON BOIS
ABRIDGE
EPPING
WALTHAM ABBEY
THE EPPING FOREST MUSEUMS