West Ham Tramways Department Football Team, seen here at West Ham Stadium on Friday, 8^th May, 1931. They had just beaten 5 - 3  the West Ham Municipal Employees Team and won the W. Lionel Jenkins Cup. The Stratford Express for 9^th May carried a report of the match, which stated that a factor contributing to the Municipal Employees loosing the team was the fact that it was still tired following a match only a few days earlier, against another side.

In this photograph are:-

Seated, centre: W. Lionel Jenkins Borough Engineer of West Ham and donor of the cup;

Standing extreme right: His worship the Mayor of West Ham, Councillor Walter J. Reed, mayor 1930-31;

Seated, right:  Michael Lewis Slattery (1868 - 1932). He was the last General Manager of West Ham Corporation Tramways (1916 - 32), and died in office on 28^th August, 1932.

Standing 2^nd left: probably Alderman George Croot, JP (died 1939)

Standing, extreme left:  Frederick Henry Garwood who was born in Plaistow in 1894. He joined the Army Pay Corps in August 1914, rising to the rank of sergeant. He transferred to the Machine Gun Corps and was wounded while serving in France. After a job as a temporary civil servant, engaged in auditing army property, Frederick joined West Ham Tramway Department as a conductor in the early 1920s. He remained with the Department and was then transferred to the London Passenger Transport Board on its formation in 1933. He resigned in 1936 on taking up the full-time salaried post of secretary to the Social & Athletic Club. He was responsible for organising a wide range of activities, including the annual memorial service at the Depot in Greengate Street, Plaistow (see other image on the website). He retired in the early 1960s and died in 1974.

(Image and text supplied by Mr. F. C. Garwood, son of F.H. Garwood)