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Wanstead history
Astronomy
In 1707 the astronomer James Pound became rector of Wanstead. In 1717 the Royal Society lent Pound Huygens’s 123-foot focal length object-glass. Pound’s observations with it enabled Halley to correct calculations of their movements.
The George public house
The George has been a pub on the site since at least 1716. Set in to the side of the pub is a plaque dating from 1752. The plaque is inscribed with the eccentrically spelled verse: There are various local legends explaining this curious plaque.
Schools and education
The Royal Commercial Travellers Schools were sited in Wanstead from their foundation in 1845 by John Robert Cuffley until their move to Pinner in 1855. The schools provided housing, food, clothing and education for up to 130 children of commercial travellers who had died or became unable to earn their livelihood. The Royal Merchant Navy School was founded in St George in the East, London in 1827 before moving to Hermon Hill, Wanstead in 1862.
Places of worship
The church of St Mary the Virgin, Wanstead was completed in 1790. It is now a Grade I listed building, and contains a large monument to Josiah Child. It was followed in the 1860s by both the Anglican church of Christ Church and Wanstead Congregational Church.
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