I have been somewhat distracted lately with you know what, so missed these posts from local history blog E7 Now & Then: Matchgirls, memorials and Manor Park (e7-nowandthen.org). I worked for many years in Bow next to the former Bryant an…Read more…
Essex Way: Stagden Cross to Pleshey
The Essex Way is a long distance walk from Manor Park, Newham to Harwich, a distance of 96 miles (you can also start the walk from Epping). Gill and I have been walking in stages along the route (off and on) for a couple of years.
Yesterday, we starte…Read more…
Visiting the grave of Matchgirl strike leader Sarah Chapman
Today I finally went to find the grave of Matchgirl strike leader, Sarah Chapman, in Manor Park cemetery. The Matchgirls strike of 1888 at the Byrant and May factory in Bow is an important event in trade union history. It was led by women and helped es…Read more…
Saints Drive walkabout
Picture college from a recent Saturday morning walkabout in the small, low rise Newham Council estate in Manor Park called Saints Drive. I met local residents, ward Councillors(Cllr Daward and Cllr Patel) and the new (and very pro active) LBN Hous…Read more…
Murder investigation launched in Manor Park
Newham Council “Sad incident in Church Street, Manor Park, on Monday evening. Man in 20s died from gun and knife wounds.
Extra police in area reassuring residents. Sympathy to those who knew victim. Call police on 101 with information about incident o…Read more…
Avenue Primary School Anti-Academies Strike
My picture from yesterday’s strike picket by teachers and lobby by parents against the proposed academination of Avenue Primary School in Manor Park, Newham.
There has now been I believe an incredible 19 days of strike action at the school.
While I k…Read more…
SAVE SARAH CHAPMAN’S GRAVE, A LEADER OF THE 1888 MATCHWOMEN’S STRIKE & TRADE UNION HEROINE
SARAH Dearman, née CHAPMAN – Matchwomen’s 1888 Strike Committee and TUC DelegateBorn: 31st October 1862 – Died: 27th November 1945 – Buried: 3rd December 1945Sarah Chapman was a leading member of the 1888 Matchwomen’s Strike Committee (pictured above). Sarah (ringed) is standing to the right of…Read more…
A two term limit for elected Mayors
Last Thursday at a very well attended meeting of my local Forest Gate North Branch Labour Party,
members voted overwhelmingly to support the below rule change.
There was a really good debate with a wide range of different views and arguments ex…Read more…