Ilford recent comments:

Ilford was a village and later ward in the ancient Barking parish, in the Becontree hundred of Essex. Ilford formed a civil parish from 1888, with a local board created in 1890, and it became an urban district of Essex from 1894. The council offices were at first in rooms above a shop in Cranbrook Road and, from 1898, council meetings were held in a hired schoolroom in Ilford Hall, High Road, but in 1901 a large town hall, also in the High Road, was completed at a cost of about £30,000. This was designed by B. Woollard in an ornate Renaissance style; it was enlarged in 1927 and 1933. Successive acts provided the council with increased powers and they used these to embark on an expansion of public services, providing sewerage, public baths, an isolation hospital, a fire station, an electricity and tramway undertaking, and several public parks – including Valentine's Park, opened as Central Park in 1898. In 1904, the council also took over the responsibilities of the school board. In 1926, Ilford was incorporated as the Municipal Borough of Ilford. In the succeeding years, Ilford Corporation made several failed attempts to gain county borough status, which would have given independence from Essex County Council. In 1965 the municipal borough was abolished and its former area was transferred to Greater London to form part of the London Borough of Redbridge. In 1914, the parish of Barking was transferred from the Diocese of St Albans to a new Diocese of Chelmsford, reflecting the increase in population to the east of London.

Yes they started their business as Britannia Works and more interesting info you can read from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilford_Photo Another interesting thing is most residents (well, they are new here) do not know the story of Ilford Films....

This has now closed down. It is awaiting demolition.

This is the recreational ground known as The Rec.

This place is called Pioneer Point. The market has been demolished now and is currently being replaced with a new building, Pioneer Point.

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The company that developed the world famous Ilford Photographic Film were based in premises that were located where this store is now. The product proved to be so sucessful that soon outgrew their premises in Iloford and moved onto new prenises, keeping the original product name

This is actually Seven Kings depot. Ilford Depot is to the West

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