Frank and Brenda Joyce and the EFE team will be attending the event on June 10th along with a number of other trade stalls. Should you wish to book a trade stall for the event then please contact the AEC event director Mr Lindsay Collier on 07930 662252 or email him at l.collier418@btinternet.com. Trade stalls will be £ 25.00 for a 12ft x 8ft pitch inside. Although we now have numerous AECs that will be attending the rally and also taking part in the pageant run we are still looking for more vehicles. Please contact the event director above to take part.

Please note:

If you are attending the event please park you car at Blackhorse Road Station, South Grove, or the Mall Walthamstow, as there is limited parking around the museum site. A special bus service is being planned to run from Tottenham Hale and Walthamstow Central. The museum is also a short walk from South Grove car park Walthamstow and from St James Street Station. The entrance fee will be £5.00 with children free, and the event will start at 11.00 and finish at 5.00. The pageant run from the Royal Forest Hotel Chingford will leave at 9.15. There will be no parking on the front of the hotel. A programme and a special AEC centenary celebration mug will be produced for the event. Keep looking at this web page for further details.





The London Borough of Waltham Forest have agreed to grant a 30 year peppercorn lease to the museum trust so that it may develop the site into a regional attraction celebrating the industrial first achievements of the Lea Valley. It is expected that the site could be fully developed subject to funding in late 2013. The museum project director stated: We are very grateful to the London Borough of Waltham Forest Council for the granting of this long term lease to the trust. The museum can now move forward in developing the site into an exciting new regional attraction celebrating the forgotten and largest untold industrial story in the world, and Britain's Best Kept Industrial Secret.





The museums development team have been working very hard so that at least part of the Pump House will be open on the 1st April. Our Fire Station will also be open along with our cafeteria, and bookshop. You will also be able to view our motor collection and unique Victoria Line Car 3186 in the museum yard. The Museum will be open every Sunday 11.00 till 4.00 with other days reserved for school parties and groups. We will also be holding a number of special events during 2012. (Please see our events page for further details) Can you assist us in any way in volunteering at the museum? Do you have any artefact that you would like to loan or gift to the museum? (Please see the relevant sections on the web site for contact details)



Over the Olympic Games period the museum will be open for four days a week. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Entrance charge will be £4.00 with children free. Times 11.00 to 5.00. See events list for details.



The museum will shortly be applying for museum accreditation. This process will take about one year to complete. This will enable the museum to loan artefacts from other registered museums and to secure additional funding for the project.



Over the last six months the museum trust have been looking at a number of building interior designs and costs as part of our tender procedure for the fitting out of our proposed new gallery building. We have now completed this process and have chosen Set out as our preferred company to carry out the design and build work. The cost for this will be 1.5 million pounds. The replica AVROPLANE also below will be one of many exhibits displayed at the museum in the future. More details to follow about the proposed new gallery building.





Our current Chairman Peter Spence is stepping aside to concentrate more on the development, and general duties at the museum. Our new Chairman will be Bob Belam who has a wealth of experience in local government procedures and other community projects. Would you like to become part of our museum development team or board member at the museum? If so please contact Bob on 02089231148 for a confidential and friendly chat.




Our museum stand attracted over 1500 visitors over the weekend. Our event leaflet was sponsored by Libra Publishing who have published a series of books on London's Lea Valley written by Jim Lewis. These books can be purchased from the museums bookshop along with the book written by Patricia Collier on the Tottenham Outrage plus other items.



A full list of this year's event can be viewed on our events page section.



This is a section of the museums unique 1967 Victoria Line Car driving car 3016. Due to the extensive restoration required on the full car and the arrival of a fully refurbished 1967 Victoria Line driving car 3186 below, it was decided that only part of the car could be saved for posterity. With the assistance of a team from Northumberland Park Victoria Line depot and a generous donation from Mr Edwin Collier all the parts required to restore the car back to its1967 mode have now been secured. It is also the only 1967 un-refurbished car in preservation. As 2013 will mark the 150th anniversary of London Underground the museum wish to have the car fully restored by then. Are you interested in the London Underground and working on this exciting restoration project? If so please contact the museum curator Mr Lindsay Collier on 07930 662252. When it is fully restored it will be sited next to car 3186 in an underground diorama setting in the new museum gallery.




The Secrets of the Tottenham Outrage by Patricia Collier
The Lea Valley Series by Jim Lewis