Victorian - 1837 - 1901

Newham Sporting Life Exhibition

The exhibition completed in 2012 celebrating Newham’s sporting history.  This was originally shown at the Mayor’s Newham Show immediately prior to the Olympic and Para-Olympics
 
View the Newham's Sporting Life exhibition

Newham's Sporting Life

Manor Park Methodist Church

This modern church building on the corner of Romford Road and Herbert Road was opened in 2009. It replaces an earlier one, built in 1964, that was badly damaged by fire (believed to be arson) in 2003. 


The first congregation met in a disused beer-shop in Greenhill Grove around 1870 first and then in a skittle alley. The first building was in 1880 and a larger church was rebuilt in 1891. The 1964 rebuild was funded by the sale of the Sixth Avenue church.


(Text: Abridged from Colin Marchant's  Faith Flows in Newham Project, with additional information from Newham Heritage Service; photograph: Matthew Crisp. More information about the history of the Methodist Church in Newham can be found in Colin's article Methodism in Newham on the website )


 

Manor Park Methodist Church

Harold Road Church

HAROLD ROAD Methodist Church was built in 1903.  

Harold Road Church

Fife Road Methodist Church

Fife Road Mthodist Church has its origins in 1853 when they first met in Coke Oven Cottages on the site of Thames Iron Works.

Fife Road Methodist Church

METHODISM IN NEWHAM

John Wesley, founder of Methodism, preached in a Plaistow 'meeting house' in 1739.

Co-operative Jug

This commemorative jug was produced for the jubilee of the Stratford Co-op. The scene depicts Straford Broadway with the Gurney memorial and St John's church.

Co-operative Jug

Bethell

The name Bethell frequently occurs in the history of the boroughs of East Ham and West Ham.

Bethell

Meeson

John Meeson was the first Mayor of the newly -formed County Borough of West Ham, 1886-87.

Meeson

Hilleary

This image shows the impressive mien of Frederick E. Hilleary who was the first Town Clerk of West Ham, serving from 1886 to 1913. His was a part-time appointment throughout and he combined it with a practice in the City and several other local official appointments. As Clerk to the Local Board, 1874-86, he conducted the negotiations for incorporation (to which there had been a great deal of opposition) and guided the new Borough through the legislative and administrative development of its first 25 years. Frederick's son George Edward Hilleary became West Ham's third Town Clerk (1915-29).

Hilleary

Cheetham

Miss Rebecca Halley Cheetham was the first warden of the Canning Town Women's Settlement for 25 years from 1892.

Cheetham
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