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  • Getting homes ready for patients to leave hospital

    Voluntary Action Epping Forest (VAEF) is playing a key role in a new service to support residents in Epping Forest when they are discharged from Princess Alexandra and St Margaret’s Hospitals. Working with Rainbow Services in Harlow, through the

  • Then and Now: Lime trees on Ranger's Road, Chingford

    It is thought that the avenue of lime trees on Rangers Road (seen here c1940) may have been planted to commemorate Queen Victoria’s accession to the throne in 1837. However, maps only show evidence of the trees from the early 1880s when Rangers

  • The cycle of the door-knocking politicos

    It's that time in the cycle when you are disturbed as you attempt to prepare a spag-bol, by a ring at the door.  Expecting Amazon to have dumped and jumped once more, you run to the entrance, scantily clad in boxer shorts and the ‘grumpy old fart