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Ambassador Gardens

One of the most successful schemes 1987. 

Beckton District  Park

Created by the LDDC from the fields and industrial land left between the old settlements and the new developments. The overall effect is informal though there are strong links, such as the cycle track, between the communities.

Amenity Building Designed by Carr, Goldsmith & Falkirk to be seen clearly in this flat landscape. 

Three sculptures at the end of the main bridleway and cycle track, by Brian Yale set tellingly in the landscape: Horses in stainless steel appear to walk elegantly through a paved paddock, enclosed by a Screen of stylized trees; a kinetic group of Birds poised on a branching pole

Docklands Equestrian Centre an indoor arena and barn for twenty horses. 1994-5 by Aukett Associates architects of the adjoining Savacentre. 

Semi-woodland and lake

Newham Angling Club

100 Tree Scheme

Trim Trail

Running through this area is a raised landscaped walk along an old railway line

Ellen Wilkinson Primary School. 

Sports Pavilion amenity buildings of 1982 are designed to read clearly in this flat landscape. By Carr, Goldsmith & Faliek, with a pyramid roofscape incorporating a heat recovery system.

Another pavilion near a children's play area, by Newham, with low tower and colonnade.

Beryl Avenue

Housing breaks down at this end of Tollgate Road into a selection of much smaller less cohesive schemes. 

Bracken Close

Lower cottages, by Adamson Associates, 1993, 

Chardwell Close.  

1982, by John Reynolds Associates. 

Columbine Avenue 

houses by Ronald Toone International, 1985, 

Eisenhower Drive

A similar design, to Nightingale Way Newham Borough Council, 1981 

green accented with an obelisk. 

Garnet Walk

Royal Albert Way

Cyprus Station. 1994. Between Beckton Park and Gallions Reach on the Docklands Light Railway. The line has climbed to road level but drop down for Cyprus Station. It is similar in styling to Beckton Park, and also situated beneath a roundabout. Between the two stations, the DLR down the middle of a major road built with it. the stations are in a cutting, under the elevated roundabout, with pedestrian access at surface level.

University - 

cylindrical student housing blocks.   

 Greenwich Crescent

Roads cramped and formless

M George F. Johnson Associates, 1984, Regency-style cottages 

Halleywell Crescent,

Built for the Southern Housing Group, completed 1994, 

North Beckton Primary School, 

Mavis Walk

By Neylan & Ungless in miniature Essex-style cottages miniature winding paths: by Stanley Brags Partnership, 

New Beckton Park South

This park has a children's play area and a seated picnic area.

Will Thorne Pavilion

Wildflower meadow

Nightingale Way,

semi-detached houses in early C19 London style 

Pennyroyal Avenue

Timber framed terraced houses and flats 

Ferndale pub is the only remaining Victorian structure.

Robin Crescent

Neo-Victorian houses behind quaint palm all by Hough August Partnership 1985.

Savage Gardens,

The first municipal housing project in East Ham.  1881. All the road names came from news items of the 1880s. Isolated housing provided in 1903 by East Ham Council along an embryo park. Now appears as an informal village green,

Borough Surveyor W.J. Savage laid out East Ham's first council housing in 1903, in an effort to bring a better standard of housing to this deprived area. This has gone; the present buildings all date from after 1981.  Origin in the long, isolated tenements built by East Ham in 1903 to improve the lot of workers who otherwise inhabited jerry-built houses in    untrained marshes. 

housing group for vulnerable residents at the end, designed by Neylan   & Ungless for two housing associations in 1981.

Staples House, for the elderly, glass mural in Staples House, its flats arranged along internal streets and round courts. 

Savage Gardens faces the remodelled park of 1903; now part of the District Park and with the appearance of an informal village green. The c19 hamlet has gone: in its place Newham Borough council   housing begun in the late 1970s.

Swan Approach

cottages with central chimneys, grouped round a green, by George F.Johnson Associates, 1984.

Strait Road

brick terraces On the side of New Beckton Park.

Tollgate Road

St Mark, 1989 by APEOS Architects of Birmingham. An interdenominational church and community centre for Beckton's post-1980 housing developments. 

large sports hall; elsewhere shop, refreshment bar, meeting rooms etc.  

Tollgate Health Centre.

Library and Community Building, opened 1997 as part of East Beckton's District Centre

ASDA part of East Beckton District Centre but really just Beckton

Primary Schools. By the London Borough of Newham, 1980s. 

Beckton's main spine, links a number of post 1980 housing schemes. 

Tollgate Road

There is more of this archness with a great mixture of speculative schemes, mostly of no distinction.

Yarrow Crescent

Three-storey, -Georgian houses by Ronald Toone International, 1985, 


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