Hainault Forest Website

 Snow scenes............Forest Keepers, Greenkeepers and Wardens photographs............Nature Diary Jan - Feb 2013...........Old Forest Postcards - Hainault, Chigwell, Abridge, Lambourne, Stapleford Abbotts, Havering atte Bower..........Lichens...........Forest Memorials...........

Academia

Centenary Day

Dogs at Hainault

Farm and Zoo

Fauna photos

Flora photos

Forest Churches

Forest History

Hainault Forest

Info and events

Links

Nature Detective

Nature Diary

Plant gall photos

Postcards from the Forest

Poetry

Slime moulds, Fungi, and Lichens Photos

Social History

Species data

Tree identification

Water features

 

BBC London TV - Hainault Military Camp

Tea room on the Recreation Ground. Painting by W. J. Winmill

 

Chigwell Row 

A History in Watercolours by W.J.Winmill

Bill Winmill at his desk. Photo © Peter Comber 1st May 2013.

I was privileged to meet Bill Winmill at his home in Chigwell Row on Wednesday 1st May 2013. Chigwell Row has lost many fine buildings, some several centuries old, due to the building of new housing. However it still remains very much a village. The loss of The Retreat Public House in 2000 prompted Bill to put together a collection of over 70 of his paintings and publish it privately in April 2013. For historians and villagers this is a wonderful book, for me as a ten year old I remember Bliss's Ice Cream parlour, the recreation ground café and putting green. Now I too have a love of the village and its associated history.

Hainault Forest Website

Written, Designed and with Photographs by © Brian Ecott

Welcome to my personal web site, within which, I hope to share with you the History and Wildlife of Hainault Forest, gathered over many years, whilst living close by in Hainault and Clayhall, in the London Borough of Redbridge. The people of Redbridge should be proud of those visionaries who in 1903 secured Hainault Forest as an open space, for us, forever.

We are indebted to Edward North Buxton and the Leaders of the Local Authorities for making it possible.

 

NEW PAGES AND REVISIONS

NEW Postcards from Hainault Forest

NEW Nature Diary March - April 2013

NEW Lichens

REVISED Forest Memorials

NEW Forest Keepers of the past

  Fungus forays - list of species 2012

CONNIE the farm dog who sadly died on 28th April was known and loved by many current and former staff, volunteers and visitors to the farm. She was a rescued Lurcher dog and was at least age 13+

 

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INVERTEBRATE PICTURES

 

BEETLES inc Ladybirds

BEES, Wasps, Sawflies, Ants 

BUTTERFLIES

DRAGONFLIES and Damselflies

FLIES and Hoverflies

GRASSHOPPERS and Crickets

MOTHS and Caterpillars

OTHER INSECTS

SLUGS and Snails

SPIDERS and Harvestmen

TRUE BUGS Shield & Squash and Capsid bugs

 

The Essex Newsman Saturday 10th June 1933 reported that Whit Monday last, beat all records for visitors. By bus alone 23,000 people travelled to Hainault Forest and nearly as many tickets were given up at Grangehill Railway Station.

TES Primary Resources   A lovely website (without adverts)  which explores native trees found within UK, with accompanying. photographs.

Thanks for sharing with the education community. From C Hill, 22 May 12. 

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Webmaster email: brian@hainaultforest.co.uk        For Country Park: email Linda Herbert     For Woodland Trust: e-mail Geoffrey Sinclair