Vestry House Museum

Vestry House Museum

Vestry House Museum, is the local history museum for the London Borough of Waltham Forest, and stands within the village of Church End, Walthamstow. This secluded area still preserves a rural atmosphere, although it lies only a quarter of a mile from Walthamstow's main shopping centre and barely six and a half miles from the City of London.

Vestry House, a two storey building of brown stock brick, was constructed in 1730 by order of the Vestry.

Vestry House Museum is financed by the London Borough of Waltham Forest and since 1931, when it was opened by Sir Ernest Pollock, Master of the Rolls, it has been the borough's museum and local studies library and archive.

The first motor car to be driven in London and the first built in Britain, by Frederick Bremer who built the car in Walthamstow in 1904, is displayed at the museum.

External links

* [http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/vestry-house-museum/ Vestry House Museum ]
* [http://www.keepourmuseumsopen.org.uk/ Campaign to keep Vestry House Museum open]


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