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	[EAW007196] Custom House, a Speedway meeting at West Ham Stadium, 1947
	[EAW000651] The bomb damaged residential area off Barking Road, Canning Town, 1946
	[EAW021718] A cityscape over West Ham and East Ham, Silvertown, from the south-west, 1949. This image has been produced from a damaged print.
	[EAW000652] A cityscape from Canning Town to West Ham, Canning Town, 1946
	[EAW043562] Southern Road Playing Fields at the top pf Cave Road and environs, Plaistow, from the south-east, 1952
	[EAW043561] The Balaam Street Recreation Ground (Plaistow Park) looking towards Plaistow Station, Plaistow, from the south-east, 1952
	[EAW043563] The Omnibus Depot on Greengate Street looking towards Queen's Road and beyond, Plaistow, from the south, 1952

	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000651 - "MAFEKING ROAD "	7 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW024922 - "Orchard Place"	7 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW024922 - "Orchard Place"	7 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EPW040852 - "Bengeo Street"	7 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043563 - "Essex Lodge"	7 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043563 - "Essex Lodge"	7 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "Salvation Army hall, London Road Dow derelict http://www.derelictlondon.com/uploads/5/6/0/3/5603187/_3195130_orig.jpg"	7 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043563 - "The old Balaam Street Fire station Information via Michael Gilby: "This was actually a satellite station of Canning Town Fire Station located on the Barking Road/Liverpool Road junction. The area of Canning Town, Plaistow and Custom House grew so rapidly after the turn of the 20th century, that Canning Town Fire Station became located in completely the wrong place. This is why the temporary satellite station in Balaam Street was opened. In 1932, a new fire station was built in Prince Regent Lane replacing Canning Town and the satellite station.""	7 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "Nissan huts, put up after the row of shops between Geer Road and Caister Park Road was devastated by parachute mine"	7 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "Holdbrook County Secondary school"	7 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "Telegraph Public house. One of the few buildings still standing after a V2 hit the area"	7 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "Steps to the boy's playground off London Road"	7 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "Steps to the boy's playground off London Road"	7 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000652 - "West Ham Sewage Pumping Station. "	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000652 - "Abbey Mills Pumping Station"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000652 - "West Ham All Saint's Parish Church"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid replied to a pin made on image EAW000652 with comment of -"My mistake, they are both designated Pretoria secondary..."	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "House (Number 59 Swete Street), and storage yard of Les Suckling, well known racer in F1 stock car. He raced with the number 132 and his yard was in Swete Street, where he kept his transport bus and cars. http://www.briscaf1stox.co.uk/website/drivers.php?d=1239&menu=g"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "V2 hit here January 4, 1945, 20 Dead"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "Site of the Lord Gough public house. 72 Plaistow Road, destroyed in the Blitz http://www.newhamphotos.com/p667748833/h647AC0E1#h647ac0e1"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "Invalid and Crippled Children's Hospital, Balaam Street http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/invalidplaistow.html "	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "Junction of Dongola Road and Khartoum Road After this date, Dongola Point tower block as erected and split Dongola into Dongola Road and Dongola Road West."	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043563 - "Chesterton House http://www.newhamstory.com/node/266"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "First, Second and Third Avenue. This location and a house in Second Avenue were used as the location for the Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense film - And The Wall Came Tumbling Down (1984) Staring Gareth Hunt. The scenes of all the ruined terraced streets were shot in First, Second and Third Avenue, which were being demolished as part of the areas rejuvenation."	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "Nurses Chapel. Until the 1980's a small chapel stood here, used by the nurses in the nurses home on Howard's road. It was reachable by the use of a small alley and steps that led from the junction of Third/Second Avenue and Howard's Road. Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense used this area as one the locations of the film - And The Wall Came Tumbling Down (1984) Staring Gareth Hunt. The scene at 40 minutes shows the interior of the chapel. (the 'church' in the film is not this building The scenes of all the ruined terraced streets were shot in First, Second and Third Avenue, which were being demolished as part of the areas rejuvenation. "	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "Public Baths, Plaistow Road"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "The Angel Public House Church Street"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "West Ham Parish Church"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043563 - "Print works"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "The Railway public house https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Railway_Tavern_Public_House,_London_E13_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1471299.jpg "	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "The school kitchens/dining rooms for Curwen Junior school. We had to use the Victoria road exit and walk down the road for our dinners here."	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "The school kitchens/dining rooms for Curwen Junior school. We had to use the Victoria road exit and walk down the road for our dinners here."	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000651 - "Pretoria County Boy's School"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000651 - "The Odeon cinema on the corner of Nehaven Lane. It had only been opened a few months, when it was badly damaged by a bomb and closed. http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/14789 "	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid replied to a pin made on image EAW000651 with comment of -"Link to image of the street before it was destroyed by..."	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000651 - "The site of the Rathbone Cinema http://www.newhamstory.com/node/2648"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043563 - "Harold Road school"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043562 - "Carter Road bridge"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043562 - "The Lord Stanley public house http://pubshistory.com/EssexPubs/Plaistow/stanley.shtml"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043562 - "Charlton Football Club"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043562 - "Plaistow Broadway"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "Lister park Locally known by us kids as "Itchy Ball Park", owing to its London Plane trees and their itch seed balls."	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "Chesterton House "Chesterton House, Balaam Street had an early 19th century front of seven bays, but an older interior. Among its occupants was Luke Howard, a Quaker, chemist and meteorologist, in 1915 it became a clinic of Plaistow maternity hospital, but was demolished in 1960." [Source: www.newhamstory.com]"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "On this site was a Methodist Church and sunday school (shows on 1939 O map) "In 1880 a 900-seater new church was built in High Street. Membership grew from 303 in 1904 to 408 in 1914. But in 1940 it was 141 with 81 members evacuated and in 1941 a bomb destroyed the building. Services continued in the near-by Given-Wilson Institute to 1942 and then the remaining congregation joined Harold Road (U) in 1962. The site is now flats." (source: http://www.newhamstory.com/node/2656)"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "In this area in 1974, "Big Hermann" a 1000lb UXB was discovered https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19740803&id=gGwzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vzIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=2599,3011183&hl=en"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "Libra Arms public house http://pubshistory.com/EssexPubs/Plaistow/libra.shtml"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "Earl of Essex public house Greenwood Road"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "Greenwood road"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043562 - "St Mary's Church"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043563 - "Plaza Picture House Richmond street"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "The Plaza Picture House Richmond Street"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid replied to a pin made on image EAW043561 with comment of -"http://spatzspots.tumblr.com/post/129309422796/the-human..."	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "Chesterton Crescent The Crescent of houses was built prior to 1861. They stood as a crescent of large houses with residents of reverends and other gentry of the time. http://collage.ibase.media/view-item?i=28106 The right-hand section of the crescent stands today, the centre was demolished to allow the Chesterton Road to be created."	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW007197 - "Beckton Lido"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043563 - "Pelly Road bridge"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043563 - "Trolly bus going past the Old Spotted Dog public house"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043563 - "Clapton FC ground"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043563 - "Clapton FC ground"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "Plaistow Broadway"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043563 - "St Mary's church"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "Nurses Home"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "Perry Road Bridge"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000651 - "The Flying Scud public house"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000651 - "Woodstock Arms public house"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000651 - "Silvertown Way"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000651 - "Liverpool Road"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000651 - "Malmesbury Road"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000651 - "Mortuary"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000651 - "Star lane"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000651 - "The Beckton Arms public house"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000651 - "Canning Town public hall"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000651 - "The Convent and Nunnary"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000651 - "The Anchor Public House"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid replied to a pin made on image EAW043561 with comment of -"http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/view-item?i=151150"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "Eileen's Snack bar To the right was Balaam Street Supplies http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/view-item?i=151154"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "The Earl Derby Public House http://pubshistory.com/EssexPubs/Plaistow/derby.shtml"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043563 - "The Lord Stanley Public House http://pubshistory.com/EssexPubs/Plaistow/stanley.shtml"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043563 - "The Lord Nelson, Pelly Road"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid replied to a pin made on image EAW043563 with comment of -"Wrong side of the road 'pinned' ..."	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043563 - "Plaistow Library"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "Lord Nelson Pelly Road"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043562 - "Pelly Road bridge"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043562 - "The Lord Nelson Pelly Road"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043562 - "The Lord Nelson Pelly Road"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000651 - "Marquis of Salisbury, 110 Hermit Road"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000651 - "The Royal Oak public house "	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000651 - "Hermit Road park"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000651 - "Pretoria Road Girl's Secondary Modern school Later merged with Pretoria County Boy's School to become Eastlea Comprehensive"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000651 - "The Sewer Now known as the 'Green Way'"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000651 - "East London cemetery, Grange Road"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW021718 - "Beckton park and Lido"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW021718 - "West Ham speedway and greyhound track"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000652 - "The Anchor public house Now gone http://pubshistory.com/EssexPubs/CanningTown/anchor.shtml"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000652 - "Canning Town public hall and library https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1402042"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW000652 - "The Royal Oak public house. Home to the boxing gym of Terry Lawless. Amongst the stable of boxers were: Frank Bruno and Maurice Hope. For pub history, see http://pubshistory.com/EssexPubs/CanningTown/royaloak.shtml"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "Greenwood Road Most of this road has now been demolished and built on Here is a map of the area in 1951"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043562 - "West Ham park"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043562 - "Doctor's surgery, corner of Terrace Road and Stopford Road"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043562 - "Jeyes factory"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "Plaistow Maternity hospital http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/894a57a6-e29d-47b9-88b8-9c8a85faf411"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "West Ham bus station"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid replied to a pin made on image EPW009713 with comment of -"The shop that replaced the Robin Hood pub is Lidl"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "St Mary's Hospital for Women and Children"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid edited the tag(s) for image EAW043561	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid added a pin to image EAW043561 - "Plaistow Station"	8 years ago
	Plaistow-Kid joined the site and created a profile.	8 years ago