Recently, I've had some enquiries from expats interested in their old homes including Ilford and surrounding towns. Newcomers
to this area have asked: Is this a part of London or
Essex?
Certainly Essex is included in some of
the postal addresses and this question was raised by the celebrated Ilford
historian, a good friend, the late Norman Gunby who wrote his fascinating book A POTTED
HISTORY OF ILFORD. He chronicled some of the town’s intriguing
stories of times past and the interesting characters living in the area when he
was a young man.
Mr
Gunby’s love of Ilford resulted in ten years’ study. He informed us that Ilford
included the districts of Gants Hill, Newbury Park,
Barkingside, Hainault and Fairlop. From
1926 until l April 1965, Ilford was a Municipal Borough in the county of Essex
and is now part of the London
Borough of Redbridge.
The Ilford post code always
fascinated Mr Gunby. By comparison with most others, the Ilford area was
considered small, although it extends from the Thames (Barking Reach) in the
south, to the “Wake Arms” (now demolished) at Epping Forest in the north – a
distance of eleven miles.
The Ilford post code area letters
are IG. The letter G may seem puzzling, but is explained by the fact that when
Ilford’s code was allocated on 17 November 1971, it was decided to use I for
Ilford with G being the last letter of the name Barking (because it was
formerly the Ilford & Barking postal area). The following explains some of
the areas so familiar to Ilfordians:
IG1: Ilford – central and south
IG2: Gants Hill, Newbury Park/Aldborough
Hatch
IG3: Seven Kings and Goodmayes
IG4: Redbridge
Lane East/Woodford Bridge Road
IG5: Clayhall
IG6: Barkingside and Hainault
IG7: Chigwell
IG8:Woodford Green/Woodford Bridge/Claybury
IG9: Buckhurst Hill
IG10: Loughton
IG11: Barking
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