Gentrification is a big word in Forest Gate now, with the coming of Crossrail, but research shows that there have been waves of gentrification and de-gentrification over the last 140 years, often influenced by among other things, the railway companies, their advertising and fare pricing structure, and their links to housing developers. How exactly did Forest Gate develop? Who were the equivalents of Barretts and Wimpey?
Photographs from the E7 Now & Then website. Left: Forest Gate station, 1906; right: The Princess Alice, Romford Road, 1900.
Interested in learning more about Newham Bookshop and some of the people connected with it? We have four lessons for classroom or family use developed from On the Record’s oral history project centered around Newham Bookshop, Writing and Reading Newham. Click here for full details.
We are proud that Newham Bookshop is LoveReading’s Bookshop of the Month. The article features a Q&A with Vivian Archer, which you can read here.
