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Location |
Inscription on plaque |
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Deerhurst, 50 Baldwins Hill |
Sir Jacob Epstein (1880 -1959) Sculptor, lived in this house 1933-1950 |
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Forest Villa, 7 Staples Road |
The Revd. Robert Hunter (1823-1897) Lexicographer and naturalist |
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Loughton Park Hotel, 107 High Road (reinstalled on Collins Court ) |
José (Josephine) Collins (1887-1958) Music Hall artiste |
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96 Goldings Road (site of the former Feltham House) |
William Wymark Jacobs (1863-1943) Writer of short stories |
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9 Woodbury Hill |
William Bridges Adams (1797-1872) Inventor and polemicist, and his wife Sarah Flower Adams (1805-1848) Hymnodist and poet |
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Lopping Hall, 187-191 High Road |
The Lopping Hall, built in 1883 out of compensation for the loss of lopping rights in Epping Forest |
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169 High Road (formerly Abbotts Travel) |
Site of a bookshop run by Sir William Addison (1905-1992), author, jurist and historian |
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8 Lower Park Road |
John Strevens (1902-1990) Artist |
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33 The Avenue |
Capt. Richard Stannard VC (1902-1977) Hero of the evacuation of Namsos, 1940 |
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Roding Valley High School |
County High School for Girls (opened 1908), and Winifred Darch (1884-1960), children's author |
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164 Torrington Drive |
Pte. Sidney Godley (1889-1957) Awarded the first VC of the Great War 23rd August 1914 |
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70 High Road |
In Salcombe House near this site lived Arthur Morrison (1863-1945), author and writer on Japanese art |
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11 Wallers Hoppett |
At Ash Green of which this street was the garden, lived William Chapman Waller (1850-1917) Historian |
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97 High Road |
In Algers House near this site lived John Finlaison (1783-1860) Government Actuary and first President of the Institute of Actuaries |
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116 Forest Road |
George Granville Barker (1913-91) Poet was born here |
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47 Poundfield Road |
Marine William Sparks DSM (1922-2002) "Cockleshell Hero" Bordeaux 1942 lived here |
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47/49 Baldwins Hill |
Muriel Lester (1885 - 1968) & her sister Doris (1886 - 1965) peace campaigners and philanthropists lived & worked here |
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Staples Road Junior School |
George Pearson (1875 - 1973) Film Producer, was Headmaster here 1908 - 1913 |
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The wall of St John's Churchyard, Church Lane, Loughton |
Thomas Willingale (1799 - 1870) Lopper, who helped save the forest, is buried in this churchyard |
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311 High Road (the former site of Monghyr Cottage, 2 Traps Hill) |
James Cubitt (1836 - 1912) Architect lived and died here |
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Meads, 77 Church Hill |
Millais Culpin (1874 - 1952) Medical Psychologist lived here |
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49 Forest View Road |
Samuel Hazzledine Warren (1873 - 1958) Palaeontologist and Geologist lived here |
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22 Brooklyn Avenue |
Ron Greenwood (1921 – 2006), England Football Manager, Lived here |
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Goldings, Clays Lane |
Everard Richard Calthrop (1857 – 1927), Engineer and pioneer of the parachute , Lived here |
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43, Barncroft Close |
Gladys Mills (1918 – 1978), Pianist, Lived here |
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83, Baldwins Hill |
Doctor Fred Stoker (1878 – 1943) Doctor and Horticulturist, Lived here |
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Loughton Lodge, Steeds Way |
Mary Anne Clarke (c1776 – 1852) Royal Mistress, Lived here |
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3 Spareleaze Hill |
Ethel Haslam (1881 – 1961) Suffragette, Lived here |
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The Hollies, 11 Albion Hill |
Sir Rowland Hill (1795 – 1879) and Francis Worrall Stevens (c1807 – c1880) who were pioneers of the Postage Stamp, Lived here |
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47 Spareleaze Hill |
Rupert Arnold Brabner, DSO, DSC, MP, (1911 – 1945) Commander, Fleet Air Arm and Government Minister and Jean Gwenneth Brabner hospital doctor, (1913 – 1944), Lived here |
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28 Roding Road |
Donald W Gillingham (1906 – 1965), Author of Unto the Fields, Lived here |
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41 The Uplands |
Sir Frank Baines, KCVO (1877 – 1933) Architect. Lived here |
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Woodcroft School, Whittakers Way |
Sir Hugh Cairns (1896-1952) Neurosurgeon, Advocate of crash helmets. Lived here |
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Elm Cottage, Debden Road |
William Brown Macdougall(1868 – 1936) Artist and his wife Margaret Armour(1860 – 1943) Author, Lived here |
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1 Connaught Avenue |
Braeside, this house served as the Loughton Red Cross Military Hospital (1914 – 1919) |
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