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Celebrating Newham's heritage with brilliant free events & activities created the the community https://www.newhamheritagemonth.org/ Get the free newsletter at https://newhamheritagemonth.us8.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=e18c252a2959daaf1ebecdf9e&id=a9fe173
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Do you know the ✨extraordinary story✨of visionary Newham artist Madge Gill?…
October 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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What’s on this week? Don’t miss

🐴 an exhibition about Newham City Farm

🚢history discussions about Royal Docks heritage

🎨a Madge Gill-inspired exhibition

🏭guided tours

✨Bollywood singing

🎭 new theatre

and much more! newhamheritagemonth.org/events/
September 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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What's on this week? Don't miss FREE films, food, talks, exhibitions, family fun & more!

From celebrations of Newham's artists, skateboarding heritage, Desi legacies, Black community spaces & Royal Docks traditions, to memories of Newham City Farm!

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September 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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🤩 Did you know that as the gateway to Epping Forest, Forest Gate was the epicentre of cycling in the late 19th century?

🚲 Forest Gate manufactured more bikes than anywhere else in London!

🚴‍♀️ Join a FREE guided heritage cycle this Saturday to learn more

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A sepia photograph of Pelly Wheelers Cycling Club Plaistow, 1910 by permission of Audrey Shorer whose Mum ‘Bertha Davis’ is shown 3rd from right!
September 10, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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✂️🎨Calling all collage lovers!

Come and join a FREE collage workshop at East Ham Library on Tuesday 9 September and help make a giant community artwork.

Everyone is welcome, and free lunch and refreshments will be provided.

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September 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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What's on this week?
🎨a collage workshop - with free lunch provided - where you’ll make a giant community artwork
🪩a chance to share your memories of music events in Newham
🚴a guided bike ride
🎉a hall party
🇱🇰celebration of Tamil heritage & more

Book www.newhamheritagemonth.org/events/
September 8, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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🎉It's HERE! Newham Heritage Month '25 kicks off today!

👏Listen out for the festival's James King on @BBCRadioLondon at 3.10pm today, talking about all the celebrations for Newham's 60th birthday

🎤Listen live www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

📲or on catch up
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September 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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🙌Discover more about your borough with talks and dicussions including explorations of iconic local cultural heritage, Royal Docks traditions, seafaring histories & more.

Discover all discussion events www.newhamheritagemonth.org/discussion/

Discover all talks www.newhamheritagemonth.org/talk/
A photo the exterior of beloved local cultural hub and shop Wenty's Tropical Foods in Upton Lane, Newham. The iconic store and the life of its owner Wentworth Newland will be the subject of Immediate Theatre's Newham Heritage Month project. Image courtesy and copyright Immediate Theatre and Wentworth Newland
August 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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🎊 One week to go until the festival launch party outside East Ham Town Hall!

🎉 Come along 3-6pm Saturday 30 August for free live music, food & drinks, dancing, face painting, arts & crafts

✨ www.newhamheritagemonth.org/events/newha... @newhamcouncil.bsky.social
August 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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We're looking for people who have memories of visiting or using the old Canning Town Library to share with our Community Researchers.

Your stories will be vital to shaping an exhibition for the borough’s new Heritage Centre, set to open in 2026.

Contact james.king@newham.gov.uk to get involved
A black and white photo of a children's storybook session in Old Canning Town Library image copyright and courtesy of Newham Heritage Service
August 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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🤍East Enders pay tribute to Newham superstar Terence Stamp, from school days in Plaistow to recent encounters with the Oscar-nom.

💎"A diamond actor and lovely man.”

✨"Used to see him ride up and down Chadwin in his convertible with Jean Shrimpton!”

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The promotional image for Far From The Madding Crowd movie Actor Terence Stamp visiting his old school in Plaistow, during the 1960s. Terence Stamp, Tom Hunter and David Bailey at the National Portrait Gallery private view for David Bailey's Stardust exhibition in 2014. (Credit: Dr. Tom Hunter) The promotional image for The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert movie
August 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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🎤🪩 Get ready to sing your heart out and dance the night away this September!

✨ Book for live DJ sets, Bollywood singing workshops, music tales and more.

🎟️ Discover the full music line-up and get FREE tickets at www.newhamheritagemonth.org/music-2/

@newhamcouncil.bsky.social #NewhamHeritageMonth
A group photo of people lined up outside at an Art Beyond the Shell event A selection of Bollywood magazines, cassette tapes and VHS A vintage black and white photo of pupils entering Newham Academy of Music A vintage blue and white flyer for Galaxy night clube in Forest Gate
August 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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🚨Free tickets are going FAST for amazing exclusive tours at this September's festival!

✨From hard hat tours of Canning Town Old Library to peeks inside Newham’s phenomenal archives, guided bike trails of Forest Gate & more!

🎟️Book now www.newhamheritagemonth.org/tour/ @newhamcouncil.bsky.social
A black and white photo of West Ham Pump House image courtesy of of Newham Heritage Service and Heritage Engineering Learning Trust A photo of a bike tour group exploring Forest Gate's cycling heritage. Image courtesy and copyright Frames of Mind
August 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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🚨Free tickets are going FAST for amazing exclusive tours this September in #NewhamHeritageMonth!

✨From hard hat tours of Canning Town Old Library to peeks inside Newham’s phenomenal archives, guided bike trails of Forest Gate & much more!

🎟️Book now www.newhamheritagemonth.org/events/
A black and white photo of West Ham Pump House image courtesy of of Newham Heritage Service and Heritage Engineering Learning Trust A photo of people on bikes on a cycling tour of Forest Gates' bicycling heritage. Photo copyright and courtesy Frames of Mind
August 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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🎊 Join thousands of east Londoners at 60 exciting free events and activities this September!

👏 Celebrating Newham’s phenomenal six decades of heritage

🔥From live performances, exclusive tours and film nights, to art workshops and exhibitions

🎟️ Get your FREE tickets now at NewhamHeritageMonth.org
August 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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📅Mark 30 August in your calendar for FREE live performances, creative workshops & delicious food to kick off #NewhamHeritageMonth!

🎉Expect DJ sets, live music, dancing, arts & crafts that explore the borough’s rich heritage as we celebrate Newham At 60

www.newhamheritagemonth.org/events/newha...
A photo of a person taking a selfie in front of the stage at the launch party for Newham Heritage Month 2024, with IROKO Theatre in traditional dress playing instruments and singing on stage behind them
August 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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🚨Festival tickets alert!

🎟️Tickets for 60 dynamic free events & activities go live TODAY!

✨From Bollywood song workshops & skateboarding sessions, to arts & crafts, exclusive tours, film nights, & more, discover what's on offer.

Get your FREE tickets www.newhamheritagemonth.org/events/
August 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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💌Are you on the list? #NewhamHeritagMonth '25 festival tickets go live soon, be the first to be notified when FREE tickets are released!

🎟️Sign up for email notifications at newhamheritagemonth.us8.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
July 31, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Last chance to have your event included in this year's festival!

Have you got an event planned in Newham this September that relates to the theme of Newham at 60: A Borough Like No Other?

Find out how to make it part of #NewhamHeritageMonth 2025 at www.newhamheritagemonth.org/blog/would-y...
June 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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📣'Newham City Farm - Straight from the Horse’s Mouth' call out for stories, photos, artefacts, interview participants to showcase the history and significance of Newham City Farm.

To participate or find out more, please email Alison McLucas nhmcityfarmproject@gmail.com
A photo of Ryan Davis with Blaze the horse at Newham City Farm. Image courtesy and copyright Ryan Davis
June 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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✨Learn how to record local stories and create visual material as a paid Heritage Producer for ‘Inspector of Nuisances’, a project developed for #NewhamHeritageMonth 2025

Find out more and apply now at alicebillinghouse.co.uk

Know someone who'd love this opportunity? Please share!
A black and white vintage photo of the exterior of a row of terraced houses in Canning Town in 1980, with young people clustered around the doorways and debris in the foreground. The image is titled 'Living conditions Canning Town c.1890' Image courtesy and copyright Alice Billing House
May 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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👏HUGE congrats to the projects selected for funding for the 2025 festival!

🎊We're so happy to share with you the first 14 projects spanning from skateboarding & Bollywood culture to trade union activism & trailblazing women in the workforce

Learn more www.newhamheritagemonth.org/blog/newham-...
A GIF showing archive images of Newham throughout the decades including markets, high streets, shops and cinemas, as well as an artwork by Newham artist Madge Gill, all courtesy and copyright Newham Heritage Service
May 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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🫧Forever blowing bubbles? In the 60 years since East Ham and West Ham became Newham, West Ham United has seen some incredible victories and glorious celebrations.

❤️💙Could these items from Newham Archive inspire your festival project? Deadline 21 March
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March 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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🔥Sunny skies got you thinking of summer? Flashback to a hot festival evening, as DJ Dlux tells the story of legendary Dejavu FM vm.tiktok.com/ZNdd2hGQ6/

❤️Want to share more of Newham's culture legends? Apply to be part of this year's #NewhamHeritageMonth www.newhamheritagemonth.org/blog/newham-...
A screenshot from a TikTok video interview of DJ Dlux on a sunny June evening outside Echo music venue in E15, with captions reading "Stratford, East 15" at the bottom of the screen, and graphics of a speaker stack on the top right of the screen and the words "east London" on the top left of the screeen. DJ Dlux was part of the team who created a project for the 2024 Newham Heritage Month festival revealing the story behind the legendary Newham underground radio station DejavuFM
March 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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⏰ One week left to submit a project idea for #NewhamHeritageMonth!

✨Is there a story from our local heritage that hasn't been told? A person who should be celebrated? A place people should know about?

💡Get top tips on how to make your application amazing www.newhamheritagemonth.org/blog/7224/
Photos from across the decades celebrating the 60th birthday of Newham, courtesy and copyright Newham Archive
March 14, 2025 at 9:39 AM