Group    From 1965 

Newham Council

West Ham was merged with parts of Barking and Woolwich to form the London Borough of Newham in 1965.

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Newham Council

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Charlie Paynter

Charlie Paynter, 1879 - 1970, lived here. West Ham United FC manager 1932 - 1...

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Daisy Parsons

Daisy Parsons, MBE, 1890 - 1957, first female Mayor of West Ham. London Borou...

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Grove Gardens - restored

"These gardens" no longer surround this monument as apparently they once did....

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Harland & Wolff plaque

These ornamental gates stood a the entrance to Harland & Wolff Ltd, shipb...

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Other Subjects

Benjamin Hall, Baron Llanover

Benjamin Hall, Baron Llanover

Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, known as Sir Benjamin Hall 1838-59, civil engineer and politician. First Commisioner of Works 1855-58. He oversaw the rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament and h...

Person, Engineering, Politics & Administration, Wales

1 memorial
Ram Mohun Roy

Ram Mohun Roy

Indian scholar and reformer. Born Bengal. Worked to abolish the Hindu tradition of sati, where a widow joins her husband on the funeral pyre. For his last three years he was the ambassador to Bri...

Person, Politics & Administration, Religion, India

1 memorial
Jan Christian Smuts

Jan Christian Smuts

South African Prime Minister (1919-1924 and 1939-1948).   Initially a vocal supportor of racial segregation, towards the end of his rule he was beginning to argue in favour of some integration.  In...

Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, South Africa

1 memorial
C. Alan Palmer

C. Alan Palmer

Corps Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1887-1895, 1915-1921. Serving Brother in the Order of St John.

Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Dag Hammarskjold

Dag Hammarskjold

UN Secretary General, 1951-61.  Died in a suspicious plane crash in the Congo.  In September 2013 the official Hammarskjold Commission cautiously recommended further investigations into the cause o...

Person, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous

1 memorial