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Carlyle Road, LONDON, E12 6BW

Looking in the up direction towards Liverpool Street.

Looking from the bridge carrying Rabbits Road at the line as it passes the housing on Forest View Road. In the distance is the bridge carrying Station Road, behind which is Manor Park station. The line was one of the earliest overhead suburban electrifications in the UK - first being planned for 1500v DC in the 1930s. Outbreak of war in 1939 prevented the work from being completed and it was only in 1949 that the line was fully electrified to Shenfield. Subsequently the electrification was extended to Chelmsford and Southend as well as being upgraded to 6.25kV AC. Today the electrification extends to Norwich and is 25kV AC throughout.

Driving instructor's car in Forest Road

Wanstead Flats form the southernmost portion of Epping Forest. A perambulation of 1225 defined the southern boundary of Epping Forest as the main road from Bow Bridge via Stratford to Romford. The woodland extended south at least as far as Plashet at the time of the Domesday Book of 1086 (Plashet was a Norman-French name meaning a type of forest enclosure). Most of the woodland on what is now Wanstead Flats disappeared during the Middle Ages, and by the end of the 18th century the only unenclosed forest here was a few pieces on the southern fringe of Wanstead Flats. Further enclosure of the flats by Earl Cowley in 1871 caused protests, led by the City of London which was a commoner of the Forest after the purchase of Aldersbrook Farm to build the City of London Cemetery. These protests eventually led to the Epping Forest Act of 1878, which preserved the remaining Forest, including Wanstead Flats, from further encroachment or enclosure. This is alongside Forest View Road which is to the right here. It is not far from Manor Park station.

This is the Romford Road façade of this ornate building, built at the junction with Rabbits Road. The Library was a Carnegie Library funded by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. The use of sandstone infilled with dark brickwork gives the impression of a building more typical of Carnegie Libraries in his native Scotland. The names Milton, Shakespeare, Tennyson and Carlyle are carved in the stonework immediately below the balustrade at roof level, while Dickens and Longfellow appear just below the lower balustrades. Over the main entrance on the left are carved the words "Let there be light", while "Carnegie" and "Library" appear on the main building frontage at the first floor level.

Terraced houses in Forest View Road

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