1900
Bill and Emma Taylor
Mon, 11/10/2008 - 00:17 — Kathy Taylor
My grandparents, Bill and Emma Taylor with baby William, their first child.
Nan was born in Cubitt Town on the Isle of Dogs in 1886 and granddad in Greenwich in 1883. They met in the Greenwich foot tunnel and were married by special licence a few weeks later, that was in 1904 and Nan was just 17 years old.
They came to live in Hermit Road, Canning Town in 1905 where baby William was born and sadly died 15 weeks later. They had another fifteen children, one of whom also died in infancy. My mum who was the youngest was born in 1928.
Photo: Private family collection
T.I.W & R.N.L.I.
Tue, 08/12/2008 - 06:16 — Robert J Rogers
When ever the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Intuition) is mentioned, most peoples memories go back to the seaside and the sight of a large orange Lifeboat racing down a slipway, her brave crew off to face the perils of the sea, the danger captured in Phil Coulter famous song “Home from the Sea”, but not many would think of Canning Town and the River Thames!
Beckton Tramway Bascule Bridge
Sat, 06/07/2008 - 17:17 — Robert J Rogers
As well as a Railway link, a part of Beckton was also fed by a Tramway system.
This system was not run by, as expected East or West Ham, but instead the Tramway came under the control of Barking Council.
Because it was only a mainly a workman service for the Factories and the Gas Works at Beckton, it was not a popular service, but it had one thing that no other London Tramway had, as a part its track system it had it’s own Bascule Bridge (see Drawing).
James Keir Hardie
Wed, 02/27/2008 - 17:22 — Brian Fitzsimons
James Keir Hardie MP (1856 – 1915) The first Labour MP for West Ham South.
Dock, Wharf, Riverside & General Workers Union
Wed, 02/20/2008 - 21:10 — Robert J Rogers
The forerunner of the Transport and General Workers Union was the Dock, Wharf, Riverside & General Workers Union. this certificate was signed in 1901 by Ben Tillet who was the General Secretary of the Union and one of the founders of the Labour party.
West Ham Troops in the Boar war
Fri, 02/08/2008 - 10:38 — Robert J Rogers
1st ESSEX VOLUNTERR ARTILLERY In St Johns Church at S
William Ritchie & Sons
Sat, 01/26/2008 - 19:16 — dannyWilliam Ritchie & Sons was a firm of Jute spinners, originally
based in Carpenters Road, Stratford. By 1876, there were around 1000,
mainly women workers, employed here. The site on Carpenters Road was
closed in 1904 and the firm then opened new premises in Caxton Street
North, Canning Town
Jack Cornwell VC
Mon, 01/14/2008 - 17:06 — Kathy Taylor
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John "Jack" Travers Cornwell was born on the 8th of January 1900 in Clyde Cottage, Clyde Place, Leyton. He was the son of working-class parents, Eli and Lily Cornwell (formerly King) and had two brothers: Ernest, born in1898, George (1901) and a sister Lily (1905). He also had a half-brother named Arthur (1888) and a half-sister named Alice (1890). Their mother was Alice Cornwell (formerly Carpenter).
Trebor's
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FOREST GATE FACES EXHIBITION - 1900s
The factory staff at the Trebor Works in Katherine Road in 1908.
Photo: Newham Archives and Local Studies Library
St. Angela's 'Brownies' - c1902
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FOREST GATE FACES EXHIBITION - 1900s
The girls in their brown summer uniforms and straw boaters are in the grounds of the convent school. The Ursuline nuns in Upton Lane accepted boarding pupils from as early as 1862. The first wing of their convent was built in 1871 and day pupils were first admitted in 1879. By 1902 St Angela's high school had been recognised by the Board of Education as a public secondary school.
Photo: Newham Archives and Local Studies Library
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