Builders brought to bookBy Chingford GuardianNOVELIST Josephine Boyle, born in Chingford, has her family roots firmly embedded in Waltham Forest. She is the daughter of Charles Edgar Reader, a founding member of local builders Reader Brothers, who over the years built houses and flats in Chingford, Leyton, Hackney, Clapton, Wanstead and areas of Essex. Mrs Boyle spent the first 12 years of her life at 66 Wellington Avenue, Chingford. The house was designed and built by her father in the 1930s when the firm of Reader Bros was developing properties around Chingford Mount. Taking ten years to research and write, Mrs Boyle has produced a book charting the history of the building firm, starting in Hackney where the first houses were built in the 1890s to the company's last days when it was wound down in 1973. The book also has a list of all the houses built, the dates and their locations. Entitled Builders of Repute: The Story of Reader Bros, is available from The Suitable Press, 55 Monkhams Avenue, Woodford Green, IG8 OEX. It is priced £18.50, plus £2.20 postage and packaging. The company deeds, papers and records are now in the care of the London Metropolitan Archive in Clerkenwell.Josephine Boyle at the house her father built|s=7 (S3W2513)oThe Wellington Avenue house when it was first built|s=7(c)oNOVELIST Josephine Boyle, born in Chingford, has her family roots firmly embedded in Waltham Forest. She is the daughter of Charles Edgar Reader, a founding member of local builders Reader Brothers, who over the years built houses and flats in Chingford, Leyton, Hackney, Clapton, Wanstead and areas of Essex. Mrs Boyle spent the first 12 years of her life at 66 Wellington Avenue, Chingford. The house was designed and built by her father in the 1930s when the firm of Reader Bros was developing properties around Chingford Mount. Taking ten years to research and write, Mrs Boyle has produced a book charting the history of the building firm, starting in Hackney where the first houses were built in the 1890s to the company's last days when it was wound up in 1973. The book also has a list of all the houses built, the dates and their locations. Entitled Builders of Repute: The Story of Reader Bros, is available from The Suitable Press, 55 Monkhams Avenue, Woodford Green, IG8 OEX. It is priced £18.50, plus £2.20 postage and packaging. The company deeds, papers and records are now in the care of the London Metropolitan Archive in Clerkenwell. 11:03 Thursday 23rd January 2003
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