runs the famous saree house Chiffons London in Green Street, Forest Gate, and has made costumes for Bollywood diva Aishwarya Rai as well as British Prime Minister Tony Blair – who wore her Nehru jacket in India – and his wife, Cherie. In the early 1990s and 21st century she also made headlines for dressing other notable people including Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Sir Richard Branson, Mark Ramprakash, Britt Ekland, Parminder Nagra, Gurinder Chadha, Meera Syal, Myleene Klass and Joss Stone. In recent years, she has been involved in commissioning dresses for reality TV stars such as Yazmin Oukhellu from The Only Way Is Essex and Laura Anderson from Love Island. Other Christopher Charles Dalliston – Dean of Newcastle Elizabeth Fry – prison reformer, lived at The Cedars on Portway between 1829 and 1844. John Grahl – economist Vera Day – glamour girl and actress Claude Scudamore Jarvis – British colonial governor Joseph McCabe – writer and speaker on freethought Edward Whymper – climber, who married at Emmanuel Church in 1906 Jane Rebecca Yorke – the last person convicted under the Witchcraft Act of 1735 Hannah Dadds - the first female train driver on the London Underground See also Forest Gate railway station London Borough of Newham Stratford 2 June 2006 Forest Gate raid References Districts of the London Borough of Newham Areas of London District centres of London