Heathcote School and Science College is a coeducational community secondary school and sixth form in Chingford in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, England.
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Friday Hill is a housing estate in Chingford, named after the hill of the same name, lying north of Chingford Hatch. It takes its name from a John Friday who held land there in the fifteenth century; prior to this, it was known as Jackatt Hill.
Friday Hill House, on the crest of the hill, designed by the architect Lewis Vulliamy, was built in 1839. It served as the manor house of the Heathcote family, replacing an earlier Jacobean house on the site. The manor house had farmland of 160 acres. Louisa Boothby-Heathcote, who had succeeded as lady of the manor in 1915, was the last resident of the house. After the 1939-45 war, the estate was sold to London County Council who built the large housing estate.
The house was used by the Chingford Community Association from the late 1940s until 2006 when the London Borough of Waltham Forest Council's Adult Education Service took it over, displacing the community centre to a timber panelled building in the grounds and facing Weale Road to the rear. The house was used for Adult Education until 2012 when the Education Service consolidated into other buildings and Friday Hill House was put up for sale. It is a Grade II listed building.
According to legend, King Charles II is said to have knighted a loin of beef at Friday Hill; however, there are other places that also claim this honour, and the story is generally assumed to be apocryphal. The pub on Friday Hill, now called The Dovecote, in the past has traded as "The Sirloin" and Little Friday Hill House.
The pop group Friday Hill took its name from the area, the group's members having grown up here.
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Chingford is a suburban town in east London, England, within the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The centre of Chingford is 9.2 miles north-east of Charing Cross. Chingford is bounded by the River Lea to the west, Epping Forest to the north and east, and Walthamstow to the south. It had a population of 70,583 at the 2021 census.
The name Chingford was first recorded in 913AD, with the ancient parish of Chingford being a largely rural farming community until urbanisation began in the late 19th century and became particularly pronounced in the interwar period.
The parish of Chingford was part of the Waltham hundred of Essex. The parish was granted urban district status in 1894, and municipal borough status in 1938. Its administrative headquarters were at Chingford Town Hall until 1965 when the Municipal Borough of Chingford merged with the municipal boroughs of Walthamstow and Leyton to form a new borough, Waltham Forest, within the new Greater London.
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Friday Hill House is a Grade II listed house at 7, Simmons Lane, Friday Hill, London, E4 6JH.
The Manor House was built in 1839 by the architect Lewis Vulliamy and Robert Boothby Heathcote, who was both the lord of the manor and rector of the local church. It was he who paid for the building of the church of St Peter and St Paul in Chingford and a local school whose name lives on in the Heathcote School & Science College. He is buried in the Boothby family vault in All Saints' Churchyard, Old Church Road. The vault was purchased by Robert Boothby, who lived in the previous manor house. The Heathcotes lived in the 19th century house until the death of Louisa Heathcote in 1940.
The present building has been used as a further education centre, but was put up for sale in 2012. In 2019, seven flats in the house were sold leasehold for prices in the range £322,500 to £465,000 each.
The grounds hosts one of the Great Trees of London, a large London Plane.
Part of the estate was sold to the London County Council who built the Friday Hill estate.
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Hatch Lane was an electoral ward in the London Borough of Waltham Forest from 1978 to 2022. The ward was first used in the 1978 elections and last used for the 2018 elections, with a final by-election in 2021. It returned three councillors to Waltham Forest London Borough Council. The ward covered the Chingford Hatch and Friday Hill areas of Chingford.
The population of the ward of the ward at the 2011 Census was 11,058.
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Waltham Forest Festival of Theatre is an amateur drama festival of one act plays that takes place each year in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. It is the only amateur theatre festival in East London. The patron of the festival is actor Derek Jacobi.
Waltham Forest Festival of Theatre serves as a first round festival in the Eastern District of the All England Theatre Festival, and is affiliated to the National Drama Festivals Association. The winners of the Waltham Forest Festival of Theatre may be invited to perform at the NDFA British All Winners Festival that takes place each year in July.
Each year the Waltham Forest Festival of Theatre has entries from adult amateur drama groups, amateur theatre companies, youth theatre clubs and school and college drama clubs and classes. The Festival is organised into both adult and youth sections and each competing team presents a one-act play. Two or three one-act plays are performed at each evening or matinee session of the Festival. The Festival takes place across a week, so often there are between 15 and 18 different theatre companies performing a play on stage during the week of the Festival.
Festival rules state that plays must be more than 20 minutes and no more than 55 minutes long to be performed at the Festival and there must be more than one speaking part in any play.
A professional adjudicator from the Guild of Drama Adjudicators sits in the audience and judges each play on its merits. The Adjudicator takes to the stage at the end of the session and comments on each play, the acting, its staging, costumes, lighting and set. The Adjudicator's marks are added up on the final night to decide who has won the Festival. The winning team is then eligible to enter succeeding rounds of the knockout competition, which culminates in the All-England Final in June and the British Final in July.
There are also awards for best actor, best actress, best performer under 18 years of age, best new writing, best comedy.
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