Woodford Green Broadway
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Woodford Green Broadway by John Davies as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © John Davies Taken: 11 Dec 2005
The growth of Woodford Green started with the arrival of the railway in 1856 (now the Central Line tube). The handsome parade of shops at the Broadway, opposite the station, is now a Conservation area. The small green in front was named Pankhurst Green in 1995 after the writer and campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst (daughter of the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst) who lived nearby from 1924 to 1956.