Over the past 9 months an enthusiastic team has created an archive record of more than 2000 documents, primarily maps, but also drawings, paintings, church notices, local newspapers and other ephemera. The sources of documents included Epping Forest Planning Department, Waltham Abbey Historical Society, Waltham Abbey Library and private donations to the museum.

Of particular interest were early plans for the London to Norwich Radial route which would have followed the River Lea as opposed to the M11 aligned with the River Roding and proposals for routing the M25 and junctions.