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Collections information
Businesses (5)
- Bow Factory, porcelain manufacturers Stratford Langthorne, Essex
- Charlwood Alliance Properties Ltd London
- Silvertown Rubber Co Ltd London
- Tate & Lyle Ltd, sugar refiners London;Liverpool, Lancashire;Greenock, Renfrewshire
- William Burton, draper Bow, Middlesex
Organisations (43)
- Association of Newham Artists Newham, Essex
- British Socialist Party: North West Ham branch West Ham, Essex
- British Socialist Party: South West Ham branch West Ham, Essex
- Dagenham Hospital Dagenham, Essex
- East and West Ham schools East Ham, Essex;West Ham, Essex
- East Ham Borough Petty Sessions East Ham, Essex
- East Ham Central Labour Party East Ham, Essex
- East Ham parish East Ham, Essex
- East Ham School Board East Ham, Essex
- East Ham Urban District Council East Ham, Essex
- Forest Gate Congregational Church Forest Gate, Essex
- Great Eastern Railway Mechanics Institute London
- Howards Road Nurses Home, West Ham West Ham, Essex
- Irish Literary Society, Forest Gate Forest Gate, Essex
- Kensington Youth Club Kensington, Middlesex
- Little Ilford parish Little Ilford, Essex
- Little Ilford School Board Little Ilford, Essex
- London Borough of Newham Newham, Essex
- Manor Park Congregational Church East Ham, Essex
- National Association of Local Government Officers: West Ham branch West Ham, Essex
- Plaistow Grammar School Plaistow, Essex
- Plaistow United Methodist Free Church Plaistow, Essex
- Plaistow United Reformed Church Plaistow, Essex
- Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End, Stratford Stratford, Essex
- Romford Road Congregational Church, Forest Gate Forest Gate, Essex
- Sarah Bonnell School, Newham Newham, Essex
- Shrewsbury Road Day School for Mental Defectives, East Ham East Ham, Essex
- Silvertown Explosion Relief Fund Silvertown, Essex
- Skinners Charity, West Ham West Ham, Essex
- Social Democratic Federation
- Stratford Langthorne Abbey Landowners Stratford, Essex
- West Ham and East Ham Air Raid Precautions West Ham, Essex;East Ham, Essex
- West Ham Borough Petty Sessions West Ham, Essex
- West Ham Central Labour Party West Ham, Essex
- West Ham Football Club West Ham, Essex
- West Ham levels Court of Commissioners of Sewers West Ham, Essex
- West Ham Libraries Music Circle West Ham, Essex
- West Ham Poor Law Union West Ham, Essex
- West Ham Quarter Sessions West Ham, Essex
- West Ham Rotary Club West Ham, Essex
- West Ham Society for Prosecuting Felons West Ham, Essex
- West Ham United Non-Ecclesiastical charities West Ham, Essex
- Whipps Cross Hospital Leytonstone, Essex
Persons (4)
Diaries (5)
- Colman, G, Green Newham, Essex
- Jacobs, George Saunders, Local Politician And Solicitor West Ham, Essex
- Page, James, (fl 1940-1945), deputy district air raid warden East Ham, Essex
- Parsons, Daisy, (1890-1957), suffragette, local politician West Ham, Essex
- Phillips-Williams, W B, (fl 1959-1968), Head teacher of Monega Primary School and Winsor Primary School, East Ham East Ham, Essex
Families (4)
- Bell family of West Ham West Ham, Essex
- Haig family of Bemersyde Bemersyde, Roxburghshire;Plaistow, Essex
- Henniker family of Stratford Stratford, Essex
- Rawstorne family of Plaistow Plaistow, Essex
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (5)
- NRA 9854 East and West Ham manorial documents
- NRA 18501 Forest Gate Congregational Church
- NRA 15802 Newham Borough
- NRA 16277 Newham Public Libraries: misc accessions
- NRA 9396 West Ham Methodist Circuit
Accessions
These are selected lists of new or additional collections that were acquired by this archive during a specific year. If a date is not displayed there are no accessions for that year.