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Loughton Lodge is home to the National Badminton Centre, health club, Girl Guides site and a small gated development of luxury apartments.
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Loughton and Lodge
When the scandal forced Clarke to leave London, she took a tenancy of Loughton Lodge, Loughton, Essex.
Pine Lodge Riding Centre at Springfield Farm, Loughton, is an ABRS-approved stables.
The civil parish of Loughton also includes the National Bowl Elfield Park, West Rooksley, Great Holm / Loughton Lodge, Knowlhill.
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Loughton Lodge is a small area of Great Holm next to Loughton ' grid square ' linked to Loughton by an underpass under which runs the old Bradwell Road and separated from the bulk of Great Holm by Lodge Lake ( a balancing lake ).
There is a blue plaque to him near the site of his Loughton house, Salcombe Lodge.
Loughton and is
The town is served by many bus routes, linking it to Walthamstow, Loughton, Leyton, Woodford, Waltham Abbey and Harlow.
Monstrous pies were a feature of 18th-century Essex rural festivals ; the Tollesbury Gooseberry Pie festival is still in existence, and other inns around the edge of Epping Forest were famed for pies ( rabbit pie at The Reindeer, Loughton, now Warren House, and pigeon pie at The King's Head, Chigwell ).
Ralph Davenant, of the parish of St. Mary Matfellon, bequeathed a legacy for the education of forty boys and thirty girls of the parish – the Davenant Centre is still in existence although the Davenant Foundation School moved from Whitechapel to Loughton in 1966.
He was educated at Staples Road School, Loughton, and then boarded at Brentwood School, at that time a direct grant grammar school with largely LEA supported pupils, ( where he was already expressing political ambitions and took the name " Jack ", allegedly after the 14th century peasant leader Jack Straw — although " Jack " is a common diminutive of " John ") and read law at the University of Leeds.
Many of Epstein's works were sculpted at his two cottages in Loughton, Essex, where he lived first at number 49 then 50, Baldwin's Hill ( there is a blue plaque on number 50 ).
Apart from the Wivenhoe Park campus, there is a rapidly developing campus in Southend-on-Sea ( Essex's largest town ), and the East 15 Acting School is based in Loughton.
The school is based in Loughton in southwest Essex and has a branch in Southend.
Although Littlewood herself strongly disapproved, believing that acting was an unteachable skill, the East 15 Acting School became successful, and is now based in its own premises in Loughton, in 2000, the school merged with the University of Essex.
The theatre building is actually a converted medieval flint barn from Ditchling, Sussex which was dismantled and rebuilt in Loughton.
Loughton is also home to the National Jazz Archive ( see below ), which hosts occasional jazz performances.
Loughton boasts a few rock and pop music connections ; Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits was a lecturer at Loughton College ( now Epping Forest College ), and the Genesis song " The Battle of Epping Forest " is based on an actual event when rival East End gangs fought a turf war in the forest.
Loughton Operatic Society, founded in 1894, is one of the oldest arts organisations in Essex, and still stages regular musicals and operas at Lopping Hall.
There is a thriving Loughton Arts Club, and there are frequent exhibitions by contemporary local artists and photographers at Loughton Library.
Jacobs also wrote numerous sardonic short stories based in ' Claybury ', which is a thinly-fictionalised Loughton.
Some of her fiction is set in Epping Forest, and ' Little Cornwall ', the hilly area of north-west Loughton close to Epping Forest, takes its name from her description in the novel The Face of Trespass.
Poets associated with Loughton include Sarah Flower Adams ( 1805 – 1848 ), and Sarah Catherine Martin ( c. 1766 – 1826 ), author of the nursery rhyme " Old Mother Hubbard ", who is buried in the churchyard of St. Nicholas Church, Loughton.
Loughton is home to two important national archives:
* The National Jazz Archive is housed in Loughton Library ; it is the national repository and research centre for printed material, photographs and memorabilia relating to jazz, with an emphasis on British jazz.
In addition to the two museums listed above, guided tours are occasionally offered of the disused signal box near Loughton tube station which is owned by the London Transport Museum.
Although Loughton is surrounded by open countryside it contains in addition many parks and open spaces.
Loughton and home
In the 1930s Loughton was home to the Pollards Operas, outdoor operatic performances in the garden of a large house.
Today Loughton is a mainly residential area but is also home to a large Equestrian Centre, in the grounds of which the medieval field pattern and fish pond can still be seen.
Son of Sir Leonard Erskine Hill FRS a distinguished physiologist, Hill was born in London, lived as a child at the family home, Osborne House, Loughton, Essex ; and educated at Chigwell School, Essex.
In Loughton, she lived with her parents at The Grange, and afterwards acquired a wooden house, Rose Cottage, which she renamed Rachel Cottage, and used as a holiday home for East-end children.
Loughton and National
Archival photos and recorded interviews with long-term residents of Loughton are available in ' Living Memories of London Road ' and ' The Story of Loughton National School '
A National Jazz Archive was set up with its base at Loughton Library in Essex.
Loughton and Centre
Loughton Leisure Centre at Traps Hill, managed by a private operator on behalf of the Epping Forest District Council includes a swimming pool complex and fitness facilities.
* Swimming-Epping Forest District Swimming Club, founded in 1977, meets at Loughton Leisure Centre.
Loughton and club
West Essex Ramblers, founded in 1970, are the local rambling club for Loughton ; the club holds four walks a week in the Loughton area, with summer excursions to more distant locations.
** Loughton Orient F. C., a football club from Loughton, Milton Keynes that played in the South Midlands League from 1994 to 2007
Loughton and site
The actual location was on the site of what is now the Lopping Hall in Loughton High Road, on a continuation of what eventually became the goods sidings, the line running across what are now the house sites and gardens on the west side of Station Road.
There was also an excursion station or platform constructed along the westernmost edge of the goods yard site: this was used for the many thousands of excursionists who used Loughton as a base to visit nearby Epping Forest.
Loughton and small
The two set up a small factory in a garage next to the Robin Hood Inn at Loughton, Essex to produce shells.
Loughton and development
Urban development began after August 1856, when the Great Eastern Railway built a line between Stratford and Loughton.
Loughton and .
Major towns such as Epsom, Watford, and Loughton are within the M25.
) Epping Forest College, Loughton: Connections, 1991.
Bryant moved just a few metres and began shooting at another table, where Graham Colyer, Carolyn Loughton and her daughter Sarah were seated.
Sarah Loughton ran towards her mother who had been moving between tables.
Carolyn Loughton threw herself on top of her daughter.
Bryant shot Carolyn Loughton in the back, her eardrum ruptured by the sonic boom from the gun going off beside her ear.
Carolyn Loughton survived her injuries, although her daughter was shot in the head.
The elder Loughton did not discover until she came out of surgery that despite her efforts, Sarah was fatally injured.
Short platforms at North Weald and Blake Hall and limited power supply meant it was not possible to work through trains to and from London, and the line remained a branch, with the shuttle service initially operating from Loughton.
* William Loughton Smith ( 1758 – 1812 ), member of the U. S. House of Representatives from South Carolina ( 1789 – 1798 )
The M11 starts in north-east London at the North Circular ( A406 ), heading northwards east of Loughton to the M25 and then passing to the east of Harlow and Bishop's Stortford and to the west of Stansted Airport, ending at a junction with the A14 to the west of Cambridge.
A Government plan to add north-facing connections at Junction 5 ( Loughton ) was deleted in 1998.
He first studied art in Loughton and Loughborough, then at Goldsmiths College in London, having been inspired to take up art professionally after having a picture selected for display on the BBC television art program Take Hart.
In gratitude for saving the life of his son-in-law, Lord Brentford offers him the seat for the pocket borough of Loughton.
He produced nearly 300 buildings over the course of his career, including Red House, Isle of Man ; Majestic Hotel, Onchan, Isle of Man ; Blackwell, Bowness, Cumbria ; Woodbury Hollow, Loughton, Essex ; Winscombe House, Crowborough, Sussex ; and Oakhams in 1942.
Straw was brought up at Loughton, Essex by his mother, Joan Sylvia Gilbey on a council estate after his father Walter Arthur Whitaker Straw, an insurance salesman, left the family and condemned them to poverty.
A few months later he was invited by William Loughton Smith, Minister Plenipotentiary to Portugal, to serve as his secretary, a position he accepted.
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