Once a tiny hamlet on the ancient highway between Epping and London, then a desirable country retreat for merchants and financiers, Leytonstone developed as we know it today when the railway came.

As we walk along the High Road, we will see glimpses of its past in some surprising places! We hear about the woman who set up an industrial school for girls; the internationally renowned naturalist, known as the “Queen of Slime Mould”; the cancer specialist who courted controversy when he treated the heir to the throne of Germany; as well a film maker Alfred Hitchcock and highwayman Dick Turpin.