The London Daily Newsletter Wednesday 7 December

On 7 December 1972, Apollo 17, the sixth and last US moon mission, lifted off from Cape Canaveral. Flight Commander Eugene Cernan was the last man on the Moon. With him on the voyage of the command module America and the lunar module Challenger were Ronald Evans (command module pilot) and Harrison Schmitt (lunar module pilot). In manoeuvering Challenger to a landing at Taurus-Littrow, located on the south east edge of Mare Serenitatis, Cernan and Schmitt activated a base of operations from which they completed three highly successful excursions in a lunar rover to the nearby craters and the Taurus mountains, making the Moon their home for over three days.

Goodmayes
Goodmayes station was built in 1901 and forms part of the (Crossrail) Elizabeth line.

Although Goodmayes appears on maps as early as the 1770s, the area remained largely undeveloped until the end of the 19th century when suburban development took place as London expanded. Most of the area was built up between 1898 and 1910 by the developer A. C. Corbett who used new stations on the Great Eastern Railway to promote new suburbs. Goodmayes was part of the ancient parish of Barking until 1888 when it became part of the new parish of Ilford. The London Borough of Redbridge was formed in 1965 from Ilford and other areas. Actors Cardew Robinson and Sir Ian Holm were born in Goodmayes.

Video: You Can’t Always Get What You Wanstead
Jago Hazzard went to the far reaches of the Central Line

TUM Dine With Me: Cock and Hoop
The Cock and Hoop Inn was standing on the corner of West End Lane and Fortune Green Road by 1723.

Before the 1880s, this area was known as West End. The census shows a gradual population increase in West End from 212 residents in 1801 to 563 people in 1871. Not much had changed in the intervening years. The few mansions were still occupied by wealthy tenants. Meanwhile workers’ cottages and tenements clustered round the Green with the local farmhouse, the Old Black Lion beerhouse (established 1751) and Cock & Hoop pub nearby. The three drinking establishments were still only serving to a total population of just over 500 in the 1870s. In 1896 the authorities closed the Cock and Hoop when it was discovered that the named licensee, Mr Robinson, had been dead for four years. The Cock and Hoop was pulled down and Alexandra Mansions built on its site in 1902.