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Description: | This clock came from the showroom of Borough of Ilford
Electricity Department, High Road, Ilford.
Ilford Council
was advanced for its day by building its own electricity works
by 1901 in Ley Street, Ilford. The works supplied power for the
Council's own trams and by the 1920s, power for homes. Its
mahogany and polished oak showroom was built in 1931 and
encouraged housewives to consider the advantage of new electric
fires, cookers, irons and refrigerators.
Later, the
electricity showrooms were closed and the second floor became
Ilford Snooker Centre. Here, from the mid-1980s, World Champion
and Chigwell boy Ronnie O'Sullivan used to practice regularly.
The Snooker Centre closed in 2007. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Redbridge Museum | Rights holder: | Redbridge Museum | Subjects: | Public Services Home and family | Temporal: | 1930 | Source: | Redbridge Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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