Alan Simpson has lived most of his life near the border between Essex and London. He developed an interest in local history while at school and studied history at university. After working for many years in the Civil Service, he now works at the Royal College of Surgeons in London. A keen photographer and deltiologist, and a member of the Leyton & Leytonstone Historical Society and the Ilford Historical Society, this is Alan’s third book about the history of ‘metropolitan Essex.