Here is a description of how 500 pauper children in Forest Gate spent Christmas Day in 1897.
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.
Many notable people lived in Newham, here is an ouline of twenty of them.
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.
AN AFTERNOON AT THE PAVILION GARDENS, NORTH WOOLWICH
Opening of West Ham's Technical Institute and Library by John Passmore Edwards in 1898.
FREE TRAVEL ON THE THAMES
Woolwich Ferry at Work - an Impressive Picture of London Life