Eastside Community Heritage
About Eastside Community Heritage
Eastside Community Heritage established in May 1993 by Judith Garfield MBE, as a joint venture between Stratford City Challenge and Newham Leisure Services, based in the Old Town Hall in Stratford, and became an independent charity in 1998 working across Newham.
The Hidden-Histories Archive was established in 1999 and contains irreplaceable oral history recordings of approximately 4000, the majority of the collection tells the peoples history of Newham in their own word preserved for future generations.
Explore the records to discover a tiny taste of some of Eastside Community Heritage’s early projects.
To find out about the People’s history of Newham, click on their website link below.
Eastside Community Heritage's Records
This project explores what is was like to take part in the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic opening ceremonies via a series of interviews with individuals who danced, drummed, operated chimneys,...
Eastside Community Heritage has worked with over 15000 individuals, 900 organisations, produced 85 exhibitions, published 16 books, 30 video documentaries and undertaken a total of over 300 community heritage based...
Eastside Community Heritage presents one of their early projects from 1999. Green Street Lives aimed to record, preserve and document voices of people who had come to Newham and made...
One of Eastside Community Heritage first projects was a collection of oral histories and a publication about St Mary Magdalene, East Ham The publication, with a collection of stories from...
Eastside Community Heritage's 2025 Events
Secrets Shared: Eastside Archive Goes Live - First Phase of Major Oral History Collection. Revolutionary online platform launches to preserve and share the rich people's history of Newham and East... FULL DETAILS +
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