There has not been room to include everything there is to know about Canning Town in this website, but we hope it will have encouraged you to find out more. This website will be expanded in the future - if you have memories of Canning Town which you would like to see included, please send your comments and suggestions to:

Newham Archives & Local Studies
The local studies library has a large number of books, documents, maps and photos which you could use to do some further research. Click the link to visit the Local Studies Webpages. You will find links to other local history sites on these pages.

London Borough of Newham
Find out what is happening in Newham today.

Unless otherwise stated, all images are copyright London Borough of Newham.

This is a brief list of the main sources which were used to compile this website:

West Ham 1886 -1986
London Borough of Newham, 1986

Canning Town
Howard Bloch and Nick Harris,
pub. Alan Sutton, 1994

People who came to Newham - Teacher’s Pack
London Borough of Newham

Canning Town Voices
Howard Bloch,
pub. Chalford, 1998

Silvertown 1917
Michael Paris,
pub. Ian Henry, 1986

The Blitz Then and Now Vols I - III
ed WG Ramsey,
pub. Battle of Britain Prints, 1988

Stratford, West Ham and the Royal Docks
Stephen Pewsey,

Sugar and all that - a history of Tate & Lyle
Antony Hugill,
pub. Gentry Books, 1978

Black People in Canning Town and Custom House Between the Wars
Howard Bloch,
pub. newsletter of the Association for the study of African, Caribbean and Asian Culture and History in Britain January 1996