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Tollesbury Gardens, ILFORD, IG6 1PA

Two separate terraced blocks make up these former artisans' cottages, which were built in 1860 on the north side of Tanners Lane when Barking Side, as it was then known, was just a rural community. Several of these are Grade II Listed Buildings. Although contemporary with each other the two blocks are completely different with the tall angled chimneys of the block on the right giving a much older Tudor appearance. The old Ordnance Survey map of 1864 shows the cottages and also some other similar structures immediately to the west along Tanners Lane and shown as Vaughan and Clifton Cottages. Of these not a trace can be seen today. The old map also shows how the front gardens of Pert Cottages stretched right to left in the photograph across the present day Sandringham Gardens, which was only built during the inter-war residential development of the area.

These former artisans' cottages were built in 1860 and are grade II-listed. One of them hosts a museum which is not normally open to the public but was open to the public as part of the London Open Weekend three weeks ago. Looking north-northeast.

The Sainsbury's store on Tanners Lane at its junction with the A123 Cranbrook Road and Barkingside High Street has its own private access road for staff to park their cars and deliveries (namely Sainsbury's lorries) to gain easy access to the rear of the store. I do think, however, that parking cars here is a very poor idea as there have been several collisions of Sainsbury's lorries with the lamp posts which light the road. I took this more for the lamp posts, but thought that this image was worthy to use as a Geograph. View taken from Baron Gardens looking south-southeast towards Tanners Lane (the Sainsbury's store is the greyish building behind the trees in the background).

Looking south-southeast.

This half of the block has much older chimneys than the block further back from the road, giving both a vintage and a more contemporary look to the cottages. Looking south-southeast. The Barnardo's headquarters can be seen in the background.

During the summer of 2008, Barkingside High Street received a street light replacement scheme to coincide with the installing of CCTV cameras. However, I can't see why this was necessary as CCTV cameras need "white" light to be able to give good colour rendition, but the light output on the older lamps was "white" anyway! The older lanterns were only installed in 2004, so they are still new! What a waste! View taken from the junction with Waverley Gardens looking south-southwest towards the Fremantle Road and Baron Gardens traffic lights.