Everyday Life
Rathbone Market
Rathbone Market on a busy day in 1977.
The shops have now been demolished and the site cleared (2011) for the redevelopment of Canning Town.
The Supermarket is still there but since 1977 has change names a number of times, from Caters to Presto, then Kwik Save, then Somerfield, and it has just been revamped as a Co-op.
Albert Road Sewer Works 1901
Photo shows, E. Loughin's Grocery shop at No78 (it was shown as run by Timothy Murphey in the 1902-03 Kellys directory) J. Mc.Kirdy's fancy Drapery Shop at No79, it was still there in 1902-03 Kellys, and Silvertown Methodist Church. The road is being dug up for sewer works.
Photo Newham Heritage & Archives (Stratford)
Chipperfield
Harry Chipperfield of Forest Gate died on 1st September, 1918.
Bill Turfrey
My uncle Bill Turfrey who had a passion for cars. He is pictured here outside his home in Marlborough road East ham. Bill once made the front page of the Stratford express when a lorry shed it's load and crushed his car with him in it, they had to cut him out. He came out of it with no more than a few bruises.
Posted by Eddie
Alverstone Road - Coronation 1953
Taken on the day of the Queens coronation in 1953.
Posted by Eddie
Easter, 1929
Fri, 01/10/2010 - 10:36 — Newham Story BFHoliday week-end: East Ham is deserted as crowds make for the coast; West Ham Stadium hosts American rider Sprouts Elder; cricket in the streets and the parks and Wanstead Flats thronged.
Bank Holiday, 1871
Wed, 29/09/2010 - 14:25 — Newham Story BFDay-trippers head for Epping Forest on the new Whitsun Holiday.
Canning Town, 1922
Tue, 28/09/2010 - 13:47 — Newham Story BFCanning Town - "Good East End: roaring girls, elephantine men, gritty irritations and grotesque allotment of toil." As recorded by Thomas Burke's The London Spy, 1922.
Rathbone Market
The "new" market was opened on this site in 1963. The view, taken in 1965, looks eastwards, with Thomas North Terrace in the background (named after a former Borogh Engineer).
Angel Lane Nos 39,41, 43
This faded brown and white photograph dates from the late 1890s Small Lock-up shops and costermongers barrows seen here in the late 1890s. The terrace was rebuilt in March 1913.
