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Newham Archive holds collections on people, places and events that are important to Newham’s heritage. We have collections on local schools, churches and societies, urban regeneration and public transport, sport...
For Newham Heritage Month 2021, Newham Music is creating a Songbook! Participating schools took part in Heritage Inspiration Days led by community experts, enriched with information gathered by a local...
The British Aluminium Company Ltd was created in May 1894 in Silvertown and was subsequently known as British Alcan Aluminium plc (1982-1996). Happy times of working at a Silvertown factory have...
Colin Grainger, former editor of the Newham Recorder and resident of Silvertown has had a long association with Tate & Lyle through family working there. Here he reflects on the...
The young men and women of Silvertown and North Woolwich knew how to enjoy themselves back in the day, and the Tate Institute was one of the venues that kept them...
Queen’s and Stratford Markets are one of the most vibrant and diverse places in Newham in terms of history and stories; both have witnessed the rapid development of the areas....
The SS Persia, one of P&O’s most luxurious passenger liners of the time left Tilbury docks and steamed down the Thames en route to India on 18 December 1915. She...
Sheriff Jammeh, or ‘Big C’, is a Gambian business owner and Co-Founder of Interface Gambia & Youth Club in Newham. His business ‘Interface Gambia and Youth Club’ works with young...
Photograph of African and Caribbean soldiers and sailors relaxing around a fire at the Social Room and Club for Coloured Sailors.
Jack Leslie, a footballer was born in Canning Town to a Jamaican father and English mother. He played for Barking Town and later joined for Plymouth Argyle.
The Lascars were seafarers from the Subcontinent of India and were employed on British ships to replace British sailors who abandoned their posts because of the appalling work conditions.
Political writer and poet Claude McKay was born in Sunnyhill, Jamaica in 1889. In 1919 he migrated to London and worked for the socialist publication Dreadnought, it’s believed he was...
As part of Drawing Woodgrange Road, Past and Present, students looked into the history of the shops on Woodgrange high street. This is some information uncovered during the online art...
As part of Drawing Woodgrange Road, Past and Present, Photographer Tony Morrison was commissioned to re-photograph the scenes from his collection of postcards of the Woodgrange Road dating from the...
Demonstrating the links between Independent traders on the high street today, and the history of traders from the past. These connections were brought to life through the creative medium of...
Across Seven Seas and Thirteen Rivers tells the life stories of Sylhetti settlers outlining the seafaring tradition from which they came. It seems likely that many of the Bengali speaking...
The ‘Knowing Newham Hero Hunt’ is a theatre show for children and their families about some of Newham’s hidden heroes. Created especially for Newham Heritage Month 2021 the show features...
A memorial at Tower Hill, London, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, commemorates the men and women of the merchant ships, including the crew of Persia, who died in both World...
The ‘Knowing Newham Hero Hunt’ is a theatre show for children and their families about some of Newham’s hidden heroes. Created especially for Newham Heritage Month 2021 the show features...
The ‘Knowing Newham Hero Hunt’ is a theatre show for children and their families about some of Newham’s hidden heroes. Created especially for Newham Heritage Month 2021 the show features...
The ‘Knowing Newham Hero Hunt’ is a theatre show for children and their families about some of Newham’s hidden heroes. Created especially for Newham Heritage Month 2021 the show features...
The ‘Knowing Newham Hero Hunt’ is a theatre show for children and their families about some of Newham’s hidden heroes. Created especially for Newham Heritage Month 2021 the show features...
The ‘Knowing Newham Hero Hunt’ is a theatre show for children and their families about some of Newham’s hidden heroes. Created especially for Newham Heritage Month 2021 the show features...
According to P&O records Asian sailors made up almost three quarters of the crew on the SS Persia, 81 European and 236 Asian crew members are listed. They would have...
Discover more about the women who worked in Silvertown factories including experiences of the Silvertown Explosion in 1917, what Paddington Bear has to do with Silvertown, and how the Marx...
Before 1918, women did not have the right to vote. Despite women being important workers in the shops, docks and factories of Newham, they also had few rights at work....
The teenagers and women who worked at the Tate & Lyle factory were nicknamed the ‘Sugar Girls’ – they still are today! These women are known for being hardworking with...
Born in Newham, Jehu-cal Emmanuel Enemokwu is a young business owner who started and runs a successful luxury fashion and design brand, based in the borough. He was interviewed by...
Darning Newham were given the opportunity by Newham Archive and Local Studies to view clothing from Newham’s factories worn by female workers in the early 20th century. Newham Collections Service...
Darning Newham, a project created by local textile artists Katie May Anderson and Memunatu Barrie, explores and celebrates how women have contributed to Newham. In alignment with the overarching theme...
Today, Newham is full of independent shops – just like 100 years ago when 20% of Newham businesses were owned or run by women, despite not having the right to...
Darning Newham collaborated with NewVIc art and design students to create a textile print for Newham Heritage Month 2021. Students were asked to research, collage and finalise a textile design...
When Jazzys’ parents moved to North Woolwich in 1961 from Kapurthala in The Punjab they were one of the few Sikh families in the area. His Father worked at ‘Spillers‘...
Fatih and Yavuz followed their father to London from Eastern Turkey and opened the Caner Supermarket in 2005. Caner is a Turkish male name meaning ‘Best Friend’ and they named...
P&P News is a family run corner shop situated next to a bus stop on the busy thoroughfare of Forest Lane E15. The owners Prem & Pinky from The Punjab...
Welcome to Frame of Mind’s new film making and participation project “Counter Culture” featuring the stories from three corner shops in Newham. Corner shops are ubiquitous, everyone living in an...
Owned by Mike De Underground, his brother Cool Hand Flex, Uncle 22 and DJ Randall, it was an independent business which was pivotal in the development of the UK hardcore,...
On 12 April, the weekend before all shops were able to open with the easing of lockdown, the Volunteer Community Photographers took portraits of local businesses and spoke to the...
Watch the story of Michael Mach, one of the owners of the Yi-Ban restaurant which has been at the Royal Docks for almost 18 years. He set up the business...
Shimeng Feng has been in Newham for over 15 years, after moving from China in order to build a new life for his family. He started out as a chef...
Parrabbola Theatre Company explore the history of J.D McDougall’s: World renowned producers of stage fabrics, and Newham’s Best Kept Secret, who celebrate their centenary this year.
Anab Hoffmann quit the corporate world to start Healtogether CIC in Newham, a community-based organisation aimed at addressing the mental health needs of the Somali community in the UK ....
Hafza Yusuf is a British Somali textile designer and the Founder/CEO of Hafza Studio. Based in Bow Arts’ R.A.W Studio in Newham, her design studio also hosts community arts workshops. She was...
Patrick Ideh has been running the highly successful African meat retail and distribution business Bantuway, for over twenty years. He was interviewed, along with his wife Stella, by Louise Meiklejohn,...
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