EAW000652 ENGLAND (1946). A cityscape from Canning Town to West Ham, Canning Town, 1946

Valletta Grove

West Road

East Road

Can’t believe someone has changed the password how sad

Can’t believe someone has changed the password how sad

Stratford Market - dealt primarily in vegetables. Closed in 1991. A depot for the Jubilee line now occupies the site, opened around 1998.

Former printing works of the Great Eastern railway.

The south end of the platforms at Stratford Market station. Closed in May 1957.

Canning Town signal box. Built over the tracks. Seen here in 1965.

Canning Town Station, the second of that name, built in 1888. The footbridge visible was removed in the 1950s, access between platforms being via the main station building at street level, just off the bottom edge of the photograph.

Stratford Railway works

A brace of trolleybuses.

Trolleybus.

Site of the Memorial Grounds, a vast sporting complex home to West Ham United before move to the Boleyn Ground in 1904.

1946. Hermit Road.

1946. Foot bridge over railway line known locally as Peggy-leggy-steps!

1946. Rathbone Street.

1947. Barking Road.

West Ham Sewage Pumping Station.

Abbey Mills Pumping Station

West Ham All Saint's Parish Church

The Anchor public house Now gone http://pubshistory.com/EssexPubs/CanningTown/anchor.shtml

Canning Town public hall and library https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1402042

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

Ranelagh School

Star Lane Junior school

Hermit road park

East London Cemetery (Grange Road)

Memorial Recreation ground

Gainsborough School

Pretoria School. In the early 70's, this combined with Hilda Road school to create Eastlea Comprehensive. For Eastlea, this was used as the technology block, with included maths, computing (A single room with two computers in the late 70's), art, metal work, woodwork, pottery and motor mechanics.

Hilda Road School. In the early 1970's, Hilda Road and Pretoria School combined to for Eastlea Comprehensive. Hilda Road school was the main school with the language and science rooms within it. c1977, Hilda road was demolished to allow the connection of the two schools with a large space between them having a new science block constructed on the space.

Abbey Mills Junction signalbox

West Ham station (District line)

Plaistow locomotive depot 33A.Singer Joe Brown was a fireman there in the 1950s.

WWII Z Battery West Ham.

St Gabriel's, Stephenson Street, Canning Town

St Matthias, Hermit Road

Holy Trinity, Barking Road, Canning Town