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London | Waltham Forest

The County of London was formed in 1889 from parts of the ancient counties of Middlesex, Kent and Surrey, with the City of London remaining an independent body. I

n 1965 Greater London was formed, taking in the rest of Middlesex (which no longer existed as a county) together with parts of Essex and Hertfordshire and further areas of Kent and Surrey.

Greater London is made up of 13 Inner and 19 Outer London boroughs together with the City of London.

Waltham Forest once lay in Essex and is today one of the 19 boroughs making up Outer London. It lies on the northeast edge of the capital with the county of Essex to its north, the River Lea marks its western border and to the east the London borough of Redbridge.

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Actors and Directors

The film director Alfred Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone in 1899. After making his early films in Britain he moved to Hollywood in 1939 where his 1940 film Rebecca won an Academy Award for Best Picture. He went on to make some of cinema's greatest thrillers including Rear Window, North by Northwest and Psycho with many of Hollywood's leading actors and actresses.

Alfred Hitchcock

Anglo-Saxons and Danes

Anglo-Saxon Kings

Danish Kings

The borough once lay in Essex which once formed the kingdom of the East Saxons, later becoming part of the kingdom of Wessex. The East Saxon kingdom reached from the river Thames in the south (on the other side of which lay the kingdom of Kent) to the river Stour in the north (which separated the kingdom from that of the East Angles).

Artists and Architects

Painter, craftsman, poet, publisher and socialist William Morris was born in Walthamstow in 1834.

William Morris

William Morris Society

The photographer David Bailey was born in Leytonstone in 1938. After leaving the army on completion of his national service in 1958 he decided to pursue the career of a photographer. Unable to study due to his school record he came to the fore in the 1960s photographing many of the stars and people of the time and becoming as famous as they were.

David Bailey

Mick Jagger

Michael Caine

Jean Shrimpton

Julie Christie

Queen Elizabeth II

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