Plaistow

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Post to the north Upton Park


Bermersyde estate

Boundary Road, Tunmarsh Lane 1901 developed by Haig

Blenheim Road

Boundary Road

Boundary between East & West Ham was a creek

Brampton Manor School.  In a relandscaped setting just south of Greenway. Large secondary school; the earlier flat-roofed parts by J. W.Taylor, 1957, extended and refurbished by Initiatives in Design, 1992; 

Martin and Newmartin Centre, A cheap mission church of 1894, adventurously adapted by Cottrell & Vermeulen, 1991-7- 

hall shared with the Newmartin Community Trust, and a wing with youth facilities, with a metal-clad projecting stair. The courtyard garden designed to be shared by church and community. 

Frinton Road

Glen Road

Newham District Hospital 1979-83 by North Thames Planning team with The Hospital Design Partnership. A large hospital, of two storeys in reinforced concrete, with aggregate-faced band at first floor. Spine with units set at right angles to the round internal courtyards. The modular design was used as a prototype for 'nucleus' hospital design, in essence phased development with the ground floor facilities before the first floor was complete. Profiled aluminium  added in the 1990s.

Hubert Road

Humberstone Road

Pinnock’s Place

 Vacant land.  Grassland and mound

Plaistow Village

North and south west laid out 1855

St Andrew's Road

St Chad and St Andrew, Originally Andrew. Founded 1862 as a mission of St Mary Plaistow 1868-70 by James Brooks. Part of a group with vicarage, schools and hall. The church is one of the monumental yet cheap buildings that Brooks made his speciality 

Vicarage of 1876-7 is an Gothic building, 

 School of 1873

Hall of 1883 and additions of 1894, all in keeping with the overall scheme.

Welbeck Road

Wilson Road


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