Animal Friends

A big question from many lips following the closure of the farm was, “What happened to the animals?” Because so many people felt personally and emotionally connected to the animals, they wanted to know that they had gone to good homes.

This document is available online as part of a package of Council public papers from the LB Newham Cabinet meeting of 8^th February 2022 and gives information about where the animals were rehomed to.

At the “Straight from the Horse’s Mouth” exhibition, a now teenager who rides at the Docklands Equestion Centre reported that the three horses, Apache, Jesse and Blue, which were rehomed to the Docklands Equestrian Centre are, in fact, still there, although Blue has been renamed as there was another horse called Blue there.

Blaze, the so-remembered “gentle giant” of a Shire horse, a big favourite for many, was happily retired off to a specialist place in the Peterborough area before Newham City Farm closed.