Victorian - 1837 - 1901

Park Road

This pair of houses in Park Road are called Isabella Villas and teh tablet bears the date 1880.

Park Road

Bisson Road

Late Victorian terraced housing in Bisson Road, Stratford.

Bisson Road

Forest Gate District Schools

Here is a description of how 500 pauper children in Forest Gate spent Christmas Day in 1897.

Modern Town

Modern 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.

Newham Notables

Many notable people lived in Newham, here is an ouline of twenty of them.

North Woolwich, 1880

 Descriptive account in the Kentish Independent for 5th June 1880  of a trip to North Woolwich and Beckton when much of the (then) new industry, docks and housing was developing.

Angel Lane Nos 39,41, 43

This faded brown and white photograph dates from the late 1890s Small Lock-up shops and costermongers barrows seen here in the late 1890s. The terrace was rebuilt in March 1913.

Angel Lane Nos 39,41, 43

North Woolwich Gardens


AN AFTERNOON AT THE PAVILION GARDENS, NORTH WOOLWICH

West Ham Technical Institute & Library Opening.



Opening of West Ham's Technical Institute and Library by John Passmore Edwards in 1898.

Free Ferry

FREE TRAVEL ON THE THAMES


Woolwich Ferry at Work - an Impressive Picture of London Life

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