The “Master of Suspense”, Sir Alfred Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone on 13th August 1899 at 517 High Road. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of his birth, a series of mosaics were commissioned for the entrance to Leytonstone Underground Station. These are collectively known as “The Hitchcock Gallery”…

 
Rebecca (1940) starring Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier.
(Note St. John’s Church , Leytonstone shown in the window).

The mosaics are the work of the Greenwich Mural Workshop and are made up of over 80,000 tiles. They took more than six months to complete with installation finishing in April 2001.

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Strolling through Wanstead Park today, the casual observer may be completely oblivious to the fact that the ground they are walking on was once one of the grandest estates in England, and at it’s centre stood a house so impressive it was even compared to Versailles.

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