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7 unusual facts about Ilford


Andrzej Skarbek

He later worked at University College Hospital, King George Hospital, Ilford and in 1977 he became consultant psychotherapist at Runwell, Rochford and Basildon Hospitals.

Beerbohm family

:::2 Dora Beerbohm (1868- 13 August 1940) In 1894 became a Sister in the Anglican Order of Sisters of Mercy at St Saviour's Priory in Ilford.

Ilford

In 1965, the municipal borough was abolished and its former area was combined with that of Wanstead and Woodford, the northern extremity of Dagenham and a small part Chigwell Urban District around Hainault; it was removed from Essex and since then has formed the greater part of the London Borough of Redbridge in Greater London.

Ilford, Manitoba

The Mooseocoot IR is located within the community boundary and is populated by the War Lake First Nation.

Ilford, New South Wales

It is named after the small English town of Ilford (then in Essex, now in east London), where the founders of this town came from.

Leonard Sainer

It sponsors several charitable activities, such as the Leonard Sainer Centre in Ilford for children with special needs.

Trevor Sorbie

Dropping out of school aged 15, Sorbie started cutting hair as an apprentice to his father in Ilford in 1964.


135 film

Ilford at one time made HP5 black-and-white film on a thin polyester base, which allowed 72 exposures in a single cassette.

Barkingside

Barkingside is also known for having a particularly large Jewish community, along with much of the surrounding area of north Ilford and Chigwell.

Barkingside tube station

The station originally opened on 1 May 1903, as part of a Great Eastern Railway (GER) branch line from Woodford to Ilford via Hainault.

Bendall

Vivian Bendall (born 1938), Conservative MP for Ilford North from 1978 until 1997

Chadwell Heath Academy

In 2004, musician Devonte Hynes left Chadwell Heath Foundation School and Ilford County High School to join the revolutionary art punk and indie rock group known as Test Icicles.

Clive Soley, Baron Soley

He went to Downshall Secondary Modern School (eventually ended up as Seven Kings High School) on Aldborough Road in Seven Kings near Ilford, then Newbattle Adult Education College in Newbattle, Midlothian, from 1961-3.

Dave Butcher

Printing and archival processing is done in his own darkroom by hand using Ilford Multigrade FB papers.

He then worked for Ilford Imaging for 21 years as Research Scientist, Technical Manager for Chemicals and Chemical Regulatory Affairs manager, his expertise for which was recognised by the award of Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Dave Butcher's preferred equipment is the medium format Mamiya 7 camera using Ilford FP4 120 film.

Douglas Webb

Before the war he worked for Ilford and then as a printer with the London News Agency in Fleet Street.

FP4

FP4 plus, a black-and-white photographic film by Ilford Photo, latest version being called FP4 Plus or FP4+

Kris Chesney

Chesney was born in Ilford, North East London on 2 March 1974 and educated at the Chadwell Heath Foundation School, now known as Chadwell Heath Academy.

Newbury Park tube station

Newbury Park originally opened on 1 May 1903, as part of a Great Eastern Railway (GER) branch line from Woodford to Ilford via Hainault, known as the Fairlop Loop.

Norman Lloyd Johnson

Norman Lloyd Johnson (9 January 1917, Ilford, Essex, England – 18 November 2004, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA) was a professor of statistics and author or editor of several standard reference works in statistics and probability theory.

UCL Academy

In March 2010 Sylvia Jones, headteacher at Valentines High School in Ilford, Essex, was appointed as the first Principal of the Academy, and Professor David Price, Vice-Provost (Research) of UCL, as Chair of the Academy Governing Body.


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