By Jim Lewis
This article is an extract from “London’s Lea Valley, Britain’s best kept secret” book written by Dr Jim Lewis.
Jim has spent most of his career in the consumer electronics industry, apart from a three-year spell in the Royal Air Force servicing airborne and ground wireless communications equipment, he has written many books on the area including a recent ‘Lea Valley Series’, a collection of six titles each focussing on a different aspect of Lea Valley’s history, published with the support of Lee Valley Estates.