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This is a list of public art in the London Borough of Redbridge .
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This is a list of public art in the London Borough of Redbridge .
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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 | Fairlop Waters Commemorative Sculpture | Fairlop Waters 51°35′44″N0°05′51″E / 51.5955°N 0.0975°E | 2013 | Unknown | War memorial / Sculpture | — | Commemorates people who served at Fairlop and Hainault airfields during the First and Second World Wars. Commissioned by Vision Redbridge Culture & Leisure, and unveiled by the Mayor of Redbridge on 11 November 2013. [1] [2] |
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 More images | Memorial to Thomas John Barnardo | Tanners Lane 51°35′10″N0°05′03″E / 51.5860°N 0.0843°E | 1908 | George Frampton | Exedra with sculpture | Grade II* | Unveiled by the Duchess of Albany, the memorial is on the site where Dr Barnardo's ashes had been interred in 1905. [3] |
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth line Clock | Chadwell Heath railway station 51°34′05″N0°07′43″E / 51.5680°N 0.1287°E | 2024 | Clock | — | Marks the arrival of the Elizabeth line at the station. The clock is made by Swiss company Mobatime and has roundels inspired by station clocks on the Central line. [4] [5] |
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Beacon | Gants Hill roundabout 51°34′34″N0°03′57″E / 51.57614°N 0.06593°E | 2004 | Chloe Cookson and Rory McNally | Sculpture | — | Created with children from Gearies Infant School. [6] |
 | The Vortex | Gants Hill roundabout 51°34′35″N0°03′59″E / 51.5765°N 0.0664°E | 2015 | Wolfgang Buttress | Sculpture | — | Installed in March 2015. [7] |
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spectrum | Goodmayes Hospital 51°34′35″N0°06′38″E / 51.5763°N 0.1105°E | 2015 | Anna Heinrich and Leon Palmer | Sculpture | — | Designed to reflect differing perceptions of mental health. [8] |
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 More images | Ilford War Memorial | Memorial Park, Eastern Avenue 51°34′29″N0°05′16″E / 51.5747°N 0.0877°E | 1922 | Newbury Abbot Trent | War memorial with statue | Grade II | Unveiled 22 November 1922 by Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll. Another casting of the statue of a soldier is at Tredegar, south Wales. [9] |
 | Bishop's Walk Mosaic | Bishop's Walk, Valentine's Park 51°34′21″N0°04′12″E / 51.5725°N 0.0701°E | 2008 | Gary Drostle | Porcelain floor mosaic | — | |
 | Redbridge Peace Monument | Winston Way Subway, Riches Road 51°33′33″N0°04′41″E / 51.5593°N 0.0781°E | 2011 | Gary Drostle | Peace column with a myriad of different cultural motifs in mosaic with a gold mosaic cone on top representing hope. | — | Unveiled November 2011 by Wilson Chowdhry, Chairman of the British Pakistani Christian Association, and the mother of the murdered teenager Kashif Mahmood who was killed five years earlier at the same location. [10] |
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Drinking fountain | Junction of High Street and Hollybush Hill 51°34′54″N0°01′13″E / 51.5818°N 0.0203°E | 1872 | ? | Drinking fountain | Grade II | [11] |
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
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 | Wanstead War Memorial | Memorial Green, Wanstead 51°34′47″N0°01′25″E / 51.579687°N 0.023656°E | 1920s | Newbury Abbot Trent | War memorial with statue | Grade II | [12] |
 | Bust of Winston Churchill | Manor House, High Street 51°34′35″N0°01′39″E / 51.57649°N 0.02758°E | 1968 | Luigi Fironi | Bust | — | Unveiled 12 August 1968. The Manor House was formerly the home of the West Essex Conservative Club, which was frequented by Churchill. The plinth is a corner stone from the 19th-century Waterloo Bridge. [13] |
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Type | Designation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 More images | Anti–Air War Memorial | Woodford Green 51°37′01″N0°01′33″E / 51.6170°N 0.0257°E | 1935 | Eric Benfield | Memorial | Grade II | Commissioned and erected by the suffragist and socialist Sylvia Pankhurst, this was Britain's first anti-war memorial. Restored in 2014. |
 More images | Statue of Winston Churchill | Woodford Green 51°36′14″N0°01′09″E / 51.6040°N 0.0191°E | 1959 | David McFall | Statue | Grade II | Unveiled 7 November 1959 by Field Marshal Montgomery, with Winston and Clementine Churchill in attendance. A photograph of the statue's head at an early stage drew criticism for its supposedly "gorilla-like" appearance. [14] |
Ilford is a large town in East London, England, 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Charing Cross. Part of the London Borough of Redbridge, Ilford is within the ceremonial county of Greater London. It had a population of 168,168 in 2011, compared to 303,858 for the entire borough.
The London Borough of Redbridge is a London borough established in 1965.
Chadwell Heath is an area of Dagenham in East London, England. It is split between the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and the London Borough of Redbridge, around 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Romford and 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Ilford, and 12 miles (19 km) north-east of Charing Cross.
Gants Hill is an area of Ilford in East London, England, within the borough of Redbridge. It is a suburb 9.5 miles (15.3 km) east northeast of Charing Cross. It lends its name to a central roundabout where five roads meet.
Ilford North is a constituency created in 1945 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Wes Streeting of the Labour Party.
Ilford South is a constituency created in 1945 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Sam Tarry of the Labour Party.
Gants Hill is a London Underground station in the largely residential Gants Hill district of Ilford in east London. It is served by the Central line and is between Redbridge and Newbury Park stations on the Hainault loop. It is in Travelcard Zone 4. It is the easternmost station to be below ground on the London Underground network and the busiest on the Hainault loop.
Wanstead is a London Underground station in Wanstead in the London Borough of Redbridge, east London. on the Hainault loop of the Central line. Towards Central London the next station is Leytonstone. Towards Woodford it is Redbridge. It is in Travelcard Zone 4. It opened on 14 December 1947 as an extension of the Central line to form the new part of the Hainault loop.
Valentines Park is a 52-hectare (130-acre) park, south of Gants Hill, it is the largest green space in the London Borough of Redbridge. The park was originally the grounds of Valentines Mansion, a residence built in 1696. Valentines Park holds a Green Flag Award and was voted one of the ten best parks in Britain in 2019.
Barking was a local government district, and later civil parish and borough, in southwest Essex, England from 1882 to 1965. It was known as Barking Town from 1882 to 1931. The district included the town of Barking, eastern Beckton and the southwestern part of the Becontree estate. The district was within the Metropolitan Police District and experienced a steady increase in population during its existence. The area was suburban to London's conurbation region and was part of the Metropolitan Police District. It now forms the western part of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and the eastern extremity of the London Borough of Newham in Greater London.
The London Borough of Redbridge, one of the north-eastern peripheral London boroughs, has within its boundaries parts of two large open spaces: Epping Forest and Wanstead Flats. Apart from many smaller parks, gardens and sports grounds, the following are the main open spaces in Redbridge:
Barkingside is an area in Ilford, in the London Borough of Redbridge. It includes the major road junction of Fullwell Cross which also gives its name to the locality near that roundabout. The area is situated 10.6 miles (17km) north east of Charing Cross. Prior to 1965, it formed part of the borough of Ilford in the historic county of Essex.
Fairlop is a suburban area of Ilford, in the London Borough of Redbridge in East London. Historically in Essex, it was part of the Municipal Borough of Ilford until 1965, when the rest of Ilford, including Fairlop, became part of Greater London. It lies close to areas such as Loughton, Chigwell, Barkingside and Woodford.
Royal Air Force Fairlop or more simply RAF Fairlop is a former Royal Air Force satellite station situated near Ilford in Essex. Fairlop is now a district in the London Borough of Redbridge, England.
Chadwell Heath Academy is a co-educational, independent of local authority school with academy status, located in Chadwell Heath in the London Borough of Redbridge, England. The school has approximately 1200 pupils on roll, including 300 in the sixth form.
Redbridge is an area of Ilford in East London, England. It gives its name to the London Borough of Redbridge, a local government district of Greater London, with which it should not be confused.
The Hainault Loop, originally opened as the Fairlop Loop, is a 6.5-mile (10.5 km) branch line of the Great Eastern Railway (GER). It once connected Woodford on the Ongar branch to Ilford on the Main Line, with an eastward connection for goods, excursions and stock transfers to Seven Kings. The loop opened to freight on 20 April 1903 and to passengers on 1 May 1903. In 1923, the GER was "grouped" into the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER), who provided passenger services until December 1947. After this date, the route was electrified for London Underground services from both the Woodford and Leytonstone directions, the link to Ilford closed, and today it forms the greater part of the Hainault Loop on the Central line, having been served by Tube trains since 1948.
The Embassy Cinema is a former cinema in the town of Chadwell Heath, Greater London. It was once known, among locals, as The Gaumont. It was designed in an art deco style, with a streamline moderne interior, by Harry Weston in 1934. The building is situated on the border of Redbridge and Barking & Dagenham, in the Chadwell Heath District Centre. The cinema closed in 1966 and became a Bingo Hall. In 2015, following the closure of the Bingo Hall, it was then used as a wedding hall/banqueting suite. The building was listed as an Asset of Community Value by the 'Chadwell Heath South Residents' Association' in August 2017 and is currently the focus of a major cinema restoration project.
The Memorial to Dr Barnardo by George Frampton, at Barkingside in the London Borough of Redbridge, commemorates the founder of the Barnardo's children's charity. Born in Dublin into a Sephardic Jewish family, Thomas John Barnardo moved to the East End of London in 1866 where he established a chain of orphanages that developed into the Barnardo's charity. He died in 1905 and, in a move unusual for the time, was cremated; his ashes were interred in front of Cairn's House, the original building of his Barkingside children's village. In 1908, a memorial was raised on the site, the sculpture being undertaken by George Frampton, who worked without a fee. The memorial was designated a Grade II listed structure in 1979 and upgraded to II* in 2010.
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