Bygone East Ham

by Brian Evans

East Ham had only 18 houses and 43 inhabitants in the 14th century and it had not changed much five centuries later, when the railway came in the 1850s. Farmers and market gardeners grew crops for the 'distant' London market, their houses scattered thinly from Wanstead Flats in the north to just south of the Turnpike Road. Beyond that, bird-haunted marshes stretched all the way down to the Thames, a wilderness of ditches and flood plain. A phenomenal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1803994762
• ISBN13: 9781803994765
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Phillimore & Company
• Length: 128 Pages