Jerry -built housing in Beckton Road, about 1890. The demand for workers in the new and rapidly growing industrial areas of the borough created a huge demand for more housing.
Beckton Gas works had ceased to produce gas and was due for demolition when it was chosen as the site of a bombed-out Vietnamese city in Stanley Kubrick's 1987 film Full Metal Jacket.
Silver trowel, presented to J.W. Field Esq. On the occasion of laying the foundation stone of St. Michaels Beckton, 29th September 1906. This church was bombed in 1941 and not rebuilt.
Brass No Plate from PLA Loco no 52 manufactured in 1915 by Hudswell Clarke & Co Ltd, Leeds.This loco is pictured with goods wagons, at the North Side of Victoria Docks, in the photo titled Dock Railways (3)