Weddings
Charles Gedge and Eve Green marry 18th June 1928
This Is a Wedding group photograph of my Grandad and Granny, Charles and Eve Gedge. They were married at St. Margarets Church , Leytonstone. At the time Charles 24 yrs old , was living at 26, Amity Road,West Ham. and Eve, 25yrs, lived at 126,Trumpington Road,Waltham Forest.
W.G. Inglis Marriage.
Photo of the marriage of: Walter George Inglis, Mercantile Clerk (age 25). To Mabel Marian Hulbert, Spinster (age 24). From 64 & 67 Capel Road Forest Gate, at the United Methodist Church, Field Road, Forest Gate, 6th July 1910. Their fathers names were, Walter Ingles (Marine Engineer), and Thomas Hulbert (Solicitor).
Their Marriage Certificate is in Newham Heritage and Archives collection.
Wedding of Mr & Mrs Harvey
Weding Bells at North Woolwich.
Brighton Family Wedding
By Arthur Brighton
The 1930s wedding of my uncle, Sid Brighton to Ethel Austin.
Christmas Wedding
Catherine Ellen Guinee (born in Westwood Rd West Silvertown in August 1915) married Alfred Stanley Dyson (born in Auberon Street North Woolwich in February 1916) at St Barnabus Church West Silvertown on Christmas Day 25th December 1943.
Blitz Wedding - St Bartholomew's Church, East Ham
A Wedding That Captured The Nation's Heart - It was a wedding that summed up the spirit of the Blitz. . . . and showed how even Hitler's Luftwaffe could not disrupt the Cockney way of life.
Dutch Wedding
Pamela Berry of St Stephen's Road married Steef Pardoen of Uitgeest, Holland on 12 October 1974 at St Anthony of Padua, Roman Catholic Church, Forest Gate. The bridesmaids are Rosy Berry, Pam's sister (on the left) and Kathy Taylor.
Stan and Joan Dyson
Stan James Dyson (B. January 1945) married Joan Lilian Adams (B. March 1944) at St Marks Church, Silvertown on 7th September 1963. They had been courting each other since Stan became fascinated as a 15-year old schoolboy sitting opposite her on a 669 trolley bus in September 1959 and finally plucked up courage to knock on her door and ask her for a date in June 1960. Been together now for 48 years and given the chance would do it all again.
Submitted by Stan Dyson
Photo: Private family collection
Mum & Dad's wedding 1931
By James Briggs
This is the wedding of my parents, Dering Briggs aged 31 and Ivy Grace Muench aged 22. The ceremony was held at St Bartholomew's Church, Barking Road, East Ham on 7th February 1931.
McLeod wedding, Silvertown
By Tom McLeod, Australia
The McLeod family of Silvertown in 1938 in the back yard after the wedding of my Uncle Steve and Aunt Lil (their daughter, my cousin Lydia, lives over here lives in New South Wales). You can hardly see me as I am right at the back and it is not a very good photo but it is the only one I have from my childhood in Silvertown. It was taken with a Box Brownie camera.
