West Ham was merged with parts of Barking and Woolwich to form the London Borough of Newham in 1965.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Newham Council
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Charlie Paynter
Charlie Paynter, 1879 - 1970, lived here. West Ham United FC manager 1932 - 1...
Daisy Parsons
Daisy Parsons, MBE, 1890 - 1957, first female Mayor of West Ham. London Borou...
Dame Vera Lynn - E7
This sign was installed to celebrate Lynn's 100th birthday, but we don't know...
Dame Vera Lynn - Ladysmith Avenue
Lynn lived in this street from the age of 4 -21. The street name panel was in...
Grove Gardens - restored
"These gardens" no longer surround this monument as apparently they once did....
Other Subjects
William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury
Born Reading. 1628 became Bishop of London. 1633 became Archbishop of Canterbury. Supported Charles I, opposed many of the church practices that had come in during Queen Elizabeth's reign and perse...
2 memorials
Christopher John Turner CBE
British colonial administrator and diplomat. Born Kingston upon Thames. Joined the Colonial Service in Tanganyika as a District Officer in 1958 and become the youngest District Commissioner in Afr...
Group, Politics & Administration, Africa, Caribbean Islands, China/Hong Kong
1 memorial
Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster
Born, son of Sir Robert, at Millbank House (alias: Peterborough House, Grosvenor House). Shown on this 1690 map to be approximately on the Thorney Street site now occupied by the Hilton Double Tree...
1 memorial
William Bradley
Elected to Brentford Council in 1901 and vice chairman in 1903 but that does not explain why he was honoured with being placed on Andrew Carnegie's immediate right in this group shot. He certainly ...
1 memorial
Sir Edward Muir
President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1971 - 1973. He died suddenly while in the post. Also, strangely, was Master of the Worshipful Company of Fanmakers, 1958.
1 memorial
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Joan Rosemary Lillian Bentley
From CWGC: Civilian of 1365 {sic} Union Street flats. Daughter of Lilian {sic} Rose Bentley. Died aged 12. Joan Rosemary Lillian Bentley was the eldest of the four children of William George Bentl...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Olaudah Equiano
Born in an African village, he was sold into slavery, first locally, then in England, then in America where he managed to buy his freedom. He returned to England and wrote the first autobiography o...
6 memorials
Khalil Gibran
Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer. Born in what is now Lebanon, emigrated as a young man with his family to US. Best known for The Prophet, 1923, popular in the 60s.
1 memorial
1 memorial
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