Walthamstow Blog

IMPORTANT NOTICE - I have only just realised that none of the email sent from this website since November 2005 has reached me. This was due to a technical error. I have now collected all of this email and will do my best to respond to it over the next few months. My apologies to all those who have written to me. Those who have sent contributions will gradually see them appear. I am so sorry if you feel I have ignored your contact or contributions. Please bear with me while I correct things. There are two thousand emails to wade through...!

John Knowles - 23 June 2007Friday 18th November 2005: worked quite hard on the website today and made sure that all of the pages for personal stories, and the archice of emails received were set up and completed - although some of the photographs are still missing. I will start the photographic galleries today and hope to get some of them up and running by the weekend. Also been busy working on another large website: noelcoward.net.

The Walthamstow ramblings of the editor, John Knowles are recorded here as dated entries:

Thursday 17th November 2005: I noticed an interesting item on the BBC site re:

" the Beagle which set sail from Plymouth for the south Atlantic in 1831, with Darwin, in the charge of Captain Robert Fitzroy, it was also taking three young Patagonian Indians home after a bizarre social experiment. His charges - two of them still children - had spent the previous 15 months living on the outskirts of London, where they had been the subjects of what, viewed through modern eyes, seems like an astonishing act of imperialism."

The Patagonian Indians actually lived in Walthamstow for this period and went to St. Mary's C of E School (later St. Mary's C of E Infants School) next to St. Mary's Church and now a church community centre. The article which refers to a newly publisged book can be seen here... BBC Link .