20th Century
Park Grove, No. 18
Typical older mid-terrace house once found in many parts of West Ham.
Leggatt Road
Corner shops like this one in Leggatt Road, Stratford were the life blood of the local community.
Women Workers -2
Wed, 01/09/2010 - 09:45 — Newham Story BFWorking in a jam-making factory was hard work, read the account of one woman's experience, who also lost her job because of her suffragette activities.
Claypole Road -2
Another view of houses in Claypole Road. These bear a tablet in the gable end naming them as King George Terrace - 1911. Note the gas lamp on the street corner.
Claypole Road -1
Neat terrace of houses in Claypole Road, Stratford. The buiding in the far left of the photograph is the old Abbey Lane School.
Rathbone Market
The "new" market was opened on this site in 1963. The view, taken in 1965, looks eastwards, with Thomas North Terrace in the background (named after a former Borogh Engineer).
War Damage - East Ham
Thu, 26/08/2010 - 09:47 — Newham Story BFSummary information of air raid casualties and damage in the County Borough of East Ham, 1940-45.
| Number of bomb incidents: | 1,454 |
| High Exolosives: | 742 |
| Mines: | 37 |
| Incendiaries (approx 11,610 on records) Estimated total: | 60,000 |
| V1 "Fly" | 36 |
| V2 "Long Range Rockets" (LRR): | 20 |
| Unexploded high explosives and anti-aircraft shells: | 237 |
| Number of Civil Defence Personnel enrolled | 12,347 |
| Casualties in the Civil Defence Services: | |
| Killed: | 10 |
| Injured: | 46 |
| Houses Damaged: | 29,000 |
| Houses Destroyed: | 2,000 |
| Worst night of bombing | 19th April, 1941 |
| Number of bombs that fell that night: | |
| High Explosives: | 40 |
| Parachute mines: | 21 |
| Incendiary Bombs (approx): | 3,057 |
| Number of casualities reported: | |
Modern Town
Wed, 25/08/2010 - 15:54 — Newham Story BFModern Newham is the creation of East London's industrial revolution, the population "explosion" of London in the second half of the century and particularly by the Metropolitan Building Act of 1864.
