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Barking Road

The Boleyn.  Junction with Green Street, rebuilt by the pub architects Shoebridge & Rising in 1898, one of the first examples in the area of the florid Free Baroque detail which became popular for pubs c. 1900. billiard room and another top-lit smaller area.

Boleyn Cinema, 1938, by Andrew Mother, built as the New Odeon.  Plain Modernist exterior with broad foyer window inset between end piers, the overhanging roof in front of the window dotted with lights. Big double-height foyer originally with pink walls painted with animals in brown, green and gold. The auditorium, now divided for three screens, had abstract ornament in the form of streamlined grilles of silver louvres below wavy patterns in red, purple and blue
Terrace - mean, oddly detailed late c19 with skyline of squashed urns and angular gables.
Sculpture: 'We are the Champions' by Philip Jackson 2003: Bobby Moore held aloft by three teammates. Over life-size, super-realist figures, 


Boundary Road
St Martin Mission church

Cleves Road
Cleves School. external walkways. .

Caledon Road
Victoria Works H. Hart Drain Rods Ltd. 1870.  Established by Herman Hart in the Commercial Road area of London as makers of chimney cleaning machinery, came to Victoria Works c. 1929, now make drain cleansing machinery.
Plaistow Hospital.  Poplar Borough smallpox hospital.  Taken over by West Ham Borough & became Plaistow Isolation hospital in 1884.  Smallpox because brought in from the surrounding areas

Elizabeth Street
St.John’s

Green Street
Was a small hamlet, continues as Boundary Road and Lane.  Is it Roman? This street name preserves the name of the old hamlet of ‘Grenestrete’ or ‘Grene Lane’ 1527, later ‘Greenstreet’ as on the Ordnance Survey map of 1888, that is 'the green or grassy hamlet', from Middle English ‘grene’ and ‘strete’.  Area suffered badly in the Second World War. Piecemeal rebuilding of shops and houses began in the late 1940s, but the West Ham side was radically reconstructed from the late 196os. An unappealing tall slab of flats rises behind the dismal Queens Market and multi-storey car park, the latter not improved by the borough's garish cosmetic recladding of 1990s reminiscent of cheap bedroom furniture. North of the railway Green Street is scrappy architecturally, but most enjoyable, with dazzling displays in a long string of Asian shops   occupying the low-key post-war buildings, which were built after serious, bomb damage.
Millennium Pavement. An effort to brighten the street with mosaic decorations and Gaudiesque seating, created by local community - lead artist Peter Dunn, seats by Anne Thorne and Rachel Simms.
St Stephen's Parade, one of the taller post-war groups, on the site of a bombed church of Post-war Infant School.
White Hart, a crowded late c19 front with gated windows in two tiny turrets
Pub contemporary by Covell, Matthews & Partners, 1968.
Upton Park Station. 1877 . Between East Ham and Plaistow on the District and Hammersmith and City Lines. Built as a London Tilbury and Southend Railway Station. In 1902 used  by the Whitechapel & Bow Railway (Metropolitan District Railway) extension eastwards  In  1936 used by the Hammersmith and City Line and 1962 the LTSR was withdrawn.  It has a brick baroque frontage of 1902, and white-walled Station Parade and is a mirror image of the station buildings at East Ham.
St Edward’s R.C. Primary School, by Ronald Wylde Associates, 2002-3,   
Green Street House - West Ham Club Site. The castle allusions of the stadium, the Boleyn name and the unexpected presence of a R.C. church and school hard by the huge grandstand are a legacy of the history of the site, although, regrettably, nothing remains of its old buildings. In the c16 Richard Breame, a servant of Henry VIII, owned an estate at Green Street. It was claimed (on no reliable evidence) that Henry VIII visited the house to court Anne Boleyn. Old views show an irregular red brick house with Tudor chimneys, apparently of 16th origin, much enlarged later. The name Boleyn Castle which became attached to the site derived from a detached octagonal brick tower in the grounds. Anne Boleyn Tower in the grounds where she is supposed to have been taken from to her death in the Tower. The estate was bought in 1869 by Cardinal Manning From 1904 the grounds were rented to West Ham United Football club, which had been formed from a number of amateur clubs, notably one at Thames Iron Works founded in 1895. The R.C. church was built in 1911 for the worshippers displaced from the chapel of 1901 attached to the school. The house was let to a social club, and finally demolished in 1955. 

West Ham Football Ground. on the site of Green Street House since 1904.  A local landmark with an interesting history. The side to Green Street has a grandstand, by Dr Martens, 2003, with a two-tier seating for 15,000. This was part of a grand rebuilding scheme intended to provide accommodation for 40,500. It incorporates a hotel, conference rooms, and a museum. The entrance is flanked by the club's emblems, giant, toy town castles in strident yellow. 

Barclay Hall. Now part of the College of  ' Further Education. 1905 by Frederick Rowntree. Built for the first branch of the Quaker Bedford Institute to be established beyond Inner London, five years after it started in an iron shed on the adjacent site. Unusually ambitious, with classrooms, hall to seat 400, and space for a variety of activities 'for those untouched by other churches'.  The building commemorates Joseph Barclay of Knotts Green, Leyton, one of several eminent Quaker families in the area.
Browning Factory castellated building which was part of the Boleyn estate and a and used for a reformatory school until 1906. 


May Road
Olivers National School 1831, Gone

Priory Road
Priory Court.  The earliest post-war rebuilding phase, architect-in-charge C.H. Doody, of the Borough of East Ham, 1949-53. 
Priory Park. snaking form laid out on the site of a c19 gravel-working area with a lake. 

Queen’s Market
Built by Newham Council.  To replace earlier street market. Moved there in the 1960s and sells exotic clothes and veg.

Redclyffe Road
Upton Park Bus Garage

Rochford Close
Upton Cross

St Peter’s church
Baptist Church

Upton Park
Estate and Plashet estate boundary of Greenstreet. Recorded as ‘Hupinton’ 1203, ‘Hopton’ 1290, ‘Upton’ 1485. that is ‘higher farmstead or estate', from Old English ‘upp’ and ‘tun’. There is a slight rise here in an otherwise low-lying area of marshy ground.
Carlton Cinema., Crompton Organ  installed 1927 First new-generation 2-8 - no Chrysoglott.

Wakefield Street
Electricity supply box
Former School Board Offices. 1899 by Robert L. Curtis. The wing marked 'girls entrance' was a pupil teachers’ centre.

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