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By Walthamstow fire station on Forest Road you'll find this plaque, and also these little fellers... Morris brigade gnomes. (I once visited a gnome sanctuary in Cornwall. You had to wear a floppy red Noddy hat so's not to frighten them.)Yes, it's The Morris Garden
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