Right, who's up for a pleasant day or two of Dystopia ?

I've got me gun.

Seen me bredrin.

The Abbey Arms pub - Plaistow

Still stands there today.

1930s I think


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Connaught Urinal 1971

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This Grade II listed Victorian cast iron urinal was a well known landmark and was known locally as the Iron Lung. It stood outside the Connaught Tavern (built in 1881 and Grade II listed) on Connaught Road.

The ornate Victorian gentlemans**oir by CS McDowell, is the only surviving circular public urinal in London, it was Grade II listed in 1983.

After the closure of the docks, the urinal gradually deteriorated and eventually Newham Council sold it to the London Docklands Development Corporation for the sum of £1. The LDDC (now the London Development Agency) dismantled it sometime in the early 1990s and it was taken away and refurbished at a cost of £47,000.

For the past 15 years the Iron Lung has been in storage and many local people are ever hopeful that it will at some time be returned to its original location.

NO CHANCE WHATSOEVER !!

HALLSVILLE SCHOOL TRAGEDY - CANNING TOWN


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During the first days of the Blitz, on 10 September 1940 a bomb hit South Hallsville School in Agate Street, Canning Town.

The school was housing bombed-out families waiting to be evacuated. The buses arranged to transport them out failed to arrive.

Many now believe that the buses had gone to Camden Town not Canning Town.

The delay meant that the school was full when the bomb hit. The official estimate of people killed was 73 but local legend says that as many as 400 people died.

It was the worst civilian disaster of the war in Britain. The names of those who died are inscribed on the West Ham Civilian War Memorial in East London Cemetery.

More later.

You tell 'em Hoss.

You must miss the Ponderosa.

I would gladly throw stuff across the barricade. :)

:)

I love Chas's stories, they have an atmosphere of a bygone era which many of us are too young to have experienced. Almost comparable to Catherine Cookson.

Shut it, you tart.

High St North probably 1960's

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This one ?

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Page 12 ???


Page 1 :)

The Pentonville 5.

Vic Turner - Mayor Of Newham

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Used to bet in my shop right up until Xmas 2007.

An interesting read :)


The Pentonville Five were five docker shop stewards jailed in July 1972 by the National Industrial Relations Court for contempt of court. They were sent to HM Prison Pentonville in London. The background to the strike was a clash between the Conservative government under Edward Heath elected in June 1970 and the Trade Union movement, involving the first national miners strike in Britain since 1926, with mass picketing, and clashes between police and workers.

Initially the police arrested all bar Vic Turner on the picket line at Chobham Farm. Vic Turner was at another location when he found out what had happened, and he went immediately to Chobham Farm to surrender for arrest as the prime mover in the strike and picketing. However after presenting himself at the picket line he was told by the police that they were under instructions not to arrest him.

The next day the headlines screamed "Leader of the dockers on the run" and "Dock leader goes into hiding to avoid arrest". When he read this Vic went straight to a pub in Canning Town frequented by the police from the local station and fronted a superintendent that he knew and asked him why didn't he arrest him.

He was told that they were under instructions to "turn a blind eye" if they saw him and under no circumstances to arrest him.

Vic then decided that if they were going to pretend that he was on the run and afraid of arrest, then the only thing to do was to be so high profile that they could not ignore him. He therefore took himself off to Pentonville and began a picket at the front gates. The press soon realised what was happening and within a short time the police were forced to take action.

Vic was approached by the Chief Constable and asked if he would be prepared to go round to the side of the building where he could be formally arrested away from the media scrum.

Vic said that this was fine but insisted that he was accompanied by his son and another relative just to make sure he didn't trip up on the way there and injure himself.

The photo of the three of them walking past the gates was then front page on all the papers.

Following their arrest, a rolling series of strikes began to cause work stoppages until there was virtually an unofficial national strike. The action of the trades unions brought the nation to a standstill, and forced the government of the day into a corner.

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) then called for an official national strike, demanding the release of the five shop stewards. As a result of this appeal thousands of striking workers marched through North London to Pentonville Prison.

The crisis came to a head and total disaster was averted when Official Solicitor Norman Turner (advised by John Vinelott, later a High Court judge) went in person to the prison and, drawing upon ancient powers that nearly everyone had forgotten about, ordered the five shop stewards released.

This action resolved a major constitutional and political crisis at the time.

Subsequently Vic Turner continued to work in the docks, transferring from the Royal Docks to Tilbury. However he left the docks under the voluntary redundancy scheme and started working for Newham Council. He was then elected as a Councillor and served for many years before being elected as Mayor.

During this period he was also presented with the Transport and General Union Gold Medal for his work for the union.

The radical film group Cinema Action made a documentary called Arise Ye Workers during the struggle.

The film won the Silver Dove at the Leipzig Film Festival and was screened by the jailed dockers on the anniversary of their release from jail.

not another bloody live forever thread about newham ffs

Big Charlie 02 Feb 21:49
Shut it, you tart

It's a good job Sparky held me back ...

But it's fun trying!

Beckton Lido it was called.

It wasn't in Beckton, it was in Custom House

3 feet 6 at either end, 10 feet 6 on the left side, and 6 feet 6 on the right side.

Pretty old photo, no high diving board, musy have been when it was getting ready to close down.

I used to 'flex my pecs' over there (check me out laydeez :) but never got in the water once, I can't swim.

One of those tower blocks is Ronan Point.

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never had you down as a "red convertible" tbh BC ;)