The story behind Walthamstow’s high street griffins

A row of recently renovated Walthamstow shops is decorated with what looks like a row of dragons. In fact, they’re not dragons, but griffins — the difference being that griffins come with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle with its talons on the front legs.
The mistake is easy to understand as that’s one of the least eagle-like heads I have ever seen on a griffin.The griffins all appear on a long row of shops at the St James end of Walth