Ilford is a town in east London, in the modern borough of Redbridge. 

In London Labour and the London Poor edition: 

Phase 1

Of the Street Sellers of Live Birds. (Volume 2): "Starlings are caught chiefly Ilford way, I was told, and about Turnham-green. Some are "rose" from the nest. The price is from 9d. to 2s. each."