Former outer London borough. It included Plaistow, West Ham, Stratford, Canning Town, Silvertown and the current Borough of Newham west of Green Street. It was amalgamated with other areas to form the London Borough of Newham.
The photo shows the proud 37 members of the first West Ham Borough Council, 1886-7.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
County Borough of West Ham
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
County Borough of West Ham
The composer of this plaque has been very mean with first names and initials.
Town Hall Extension, 1885. George Rivett, Esq., Chairman of the Local Board. ...
This stone was laid by George Rivett, Esqre. chairman of the West Ham Local B...
County Borough of West Ham This stone was laid by Councillor Abednego Bishop ...
Our picture shows the Mayor in 1960, shortly before the Clichy plaque was unveiled, doing the honours at another similar ceremony.
Mayor of Shoreditch in 1949.  By 1962, when he appears on another housing plaque, he had received the MBE.
The oldest of the three royal boroughs in England, it was formed in 1965 by the merger of the municipal boroughs of Kingston-upon-Thames (which itself was a Royal Borough), Malden and Coombe and Su...
Karnataka is a region in the south west of India.
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician, historian, political critic, and activist. A prominent intellectual and cultural figure. Born Pennsylvania.Â
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