Transport
Bus Conducturess 1940,s
Here is a photo of Mrs Mary Warren ,nee Butcher .
This photo was taken during the second world war when she worked on the trolly buses in West Ham
from a family collection, poppy show
Railways - tickets & labels (5)
Workmen's third class daily and weekly tickets between local stations.
India Rubber & Gutta-Percha
An eco-friendly electric van of the India Rubber and Gutta-Percha factory in Silvertown.
North Woolwich looking South (1)
This Photo looking across the Albert Road and The Royal Victoria Park, shows the jetty and tall funnels of old steam ferries by the foot tunnel entrance to Woolwich.
Royal Victoria Gardens
This snowy scene of 1949 looks towards the docks. The SS Chieftan can be seen among a forest of dock cranes. In between can be seen local streets that bear the scars of the Second World War.
Photograph: Alan Godfrey Collection
Maryland Point
Presbyterian Church and Railway at Maryland Point, before 1873.
Trinity Presbyterian Church of England was built by Andrew Black, who was its first minister (1863-75). A hall was built in 1863 and the church in 1870. It closed as a church in 1941, the congregation joining Manor Park (East Avenue) which took the name. The building became a factory, which was destroyed by fire in 1953. The church hall survived the fire and continued as a factory until 1966. The site of the church and hall was built over in the the mid-2000s and is now an apartment block and shops.
Maryland Point Station is absent from this view - it was not opened until 6th January, 1873. The original building was completely rebuilt in 1891 when the Great Eastern Railway quadrupled the tracks. This work required new road bridges to be built at Maryland Point (The Grove) and Water Lane (the old bridge can be seen in the distance. The signal post and the signal cabin appear on the Ordnance Survey Map of the 1860s.
West Ham Trams - 3
Tram No 291 at rest in Stratford waiting its next turn of duty. Route 1A will take it from Stratford Broadway along Portway, Plashet Road and Green Street, terminating at the Boleyn.
Plaistow Station
Looking towards from Upper Road, before construction of Tramway track 1903. "Phillips" Coach, Tyre & Spring Smiths on the right.
Plaistow Road and Grafton Road North
Looking South towards Plaistow Station with London Tilbury and Southend Railway works (later L.M.S.) On the right, before the Tramway track was laid down in 1903. Grafton Road North on the left is where Greenwood Road is to-day.
West Ham Trams -2
County Borough of West Ham Tramways Department - Souvenir Brochure of the formal opening of the new tramways offices and depot in Grengate Street, Plaistow on 25th October, 1906.
