Stratford’s oldest building – the Old Dispensary

Just around the corner from the main shopping area in Stratford is an old building — the Old Dispensary, and it’s the oldest building in the town.Stratford is a part of London that’s comparatively new, being mostly marshes until the railways arrived in the 1830s, so it’s not hugely surprisingly that it lacks much in the way of ancient buildings.
Being built around the early 1800s, it’s not massively old, but still the oldest thing around here.
Although called a Disp