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Tanners Lane, ILFORD, IG6 1QE

This is the Tanners Lane entrance to the headquarters of the children's charity Barnardo's and Barkingside Magistrates Court (out of shot to the left). The entrance into the Barnardo's residences is controlled by barriers (which can just be seen in the background). View taken looking south-southeast towards Tesco.

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.

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.

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.

This is the view that greets you as you leave the access road to Barkingside tube station. The church is on Tanners Lane just before its name changes to Horns Road and is viewed from the junction of Carlton Drive, Station Road, Crown Road and Carlton Court, looking north-east.

The Barnardo's home at Barkingside featured cottages (in which girls could live in a family-like environment) around three large greens. On the death of Thomas Barnardo, a memorial statue was erected at the point where the three greens met. Only one of the greens survives now; the cottages on the north side are occupied by Barnardo's administrative staff and those on the south side have been converted to housing for the elderly. At the north-east corner of the surviving green is the children's church, which was paid for by an anonymous donor in memory of her parents and is specifically designed for children (the pews are child-sized and the images in the stained glass are of Bible stories featuring children).