St James Street, Waltham Forest
A station and street situated at the southern end of Blackhorse Road in west Walthamstow
The rear of houses in St James Street, seen from the station
The first St James’s church was erected in 1842. A replacement was built in 1902 and demolished sixty years later. The site is now occupied by a health clinic.
Much of the area was developed by the local builder Sir TCT Warner during the 1890s. It was called the Clock House estate after the Warner family home, a Regency style villa erected in 1813, part of which is still standing at the corner of Mission Grove and Pretoria Avenue. Warner’s houses were built to a high standard with distinctive external features, including a letter ‘W’ on many of the properties. Some of the estate was acquired by the council in the 1960s and Leucha Road is now a conservation area.
St James’s Park and Low Hall sports ground lie to the south-west of the station. The latter has the Pump House steam and transport museum, a grade II listed Victorian engine house remodelled in 1897 to take a pair of Marshall steam engines, which are still in working order.
