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Community researcher Lynda Dowling shares memories of Canning Town Old Library.
Oral history interview with Samuel Benson.
Oral history interview with Franklin Amadi.
Oral history interview with Geraldine Webb and Theresa McGinn.
Oral history interview with Richard Fe Cados.
In summer 2025, I answered a call from Newham Heritage to join a team of community researchers on an oral history project focused on the Old Library at 103 Barking...
In 1989, the Canning Town Public Hall was ruled structurally unsafe and for the first time in over a century as a community hub, the building lay disused and empty....
Who were the communities of Community Links? In the life of the Canning Town Public Hall, times have changed, and the world has changed with it. This development is reflected...
Sharon Fell is a former Newham Primary School Teacher, passionate library advocate, local amateur historian and proud Newham resident. Born in Forest Gate Hospital in 1960, East London, Sharon’s family...
Julien Ipanga is a young sculptor and artist, brought up in Canning Town and whose career began in Newham. Born in France in 1997, Julien’s family moved to Canning Town...
Father (Fr) John Armitage is the current parish priest at St Margaret’s Church in Canning Town. Born and bred in Canning Town, his family have lived here since the 1920s....
Meet local musical legends Bill Farrow and Richie Milton also known as Bill ‘N’ Ricky Cockney Duo. Bill was born in the 1940s in Canning Town and Richie Milton in...
Four oral history recordings by community researcher Natasha Cox.
An oral history interview with Josephine Phillips.
An oral history interview with Kathleen Holding.
An oral history interview with Deborah Peck.
An interview over Zoom with William Elsom.
This image relates to the Mayflower Centre, a Christian organisation in Canning Town, which with the inspiration of David Webster and the Reverend Roger Sainsbury under the 1975 government Job...
Local people recount how significant first hand experiences with animals and the outdoors at Newham City Farm were for education, training, building social and life skills and well-being on many...
From 1965 to 2002, there was a small bird and animal enclosure known as “Plashet Zoo” within Plashet Park in Manor Park, Newham, near to the Passmore Edwards Building. The...
The Friends of Newham City Farm evolved from the Friends of Plashet Zoo upon the closure of the Zoo. The group comprised a few members but significantly included the Patron,...
Newham City Farm relied on a variety of volunteers as explained in the exhibition panel here. For many though, particularly the regular junior, youth, adult and SEND volunteers, there was...
For many families, visiting Newham City Farm was not just an enjoyable day out but a necessity, a place to relax, destress, regulate emotionally and physically as well as for...
Revolution Farm, based on George Orwell’s Animal Farm, is a site-specific play written by James Kenworth for performance at Newham City Farm in 2014.
An email interview with Robert John Rogers (born 1953), who was raised in Canning Town and is a former London Borough of Newham Principle Electrical Inspector (Housing). As a former...
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