Upton Park
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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.
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.
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.
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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