Canning Town - Pocket Images Author:Howard Bloch, Nick Harris This fascinating collection of nearly 200 old photographs of Canning Town illustrates some of the enormous changes the area and its people have see over the last oen hundred years. Canning Town once provided the workforce for the Docks, Thames Ironworks and Beckton Gasworks which, together, formed a major centre of industry in the SOuth. The com... more »bination of heavy industry and poor social conditions, created by inadequate housing and services, stimulated the growth of trade union and political activity, which was such a feature. Using photographs drawn exclusively from the Lonson Borough of Newham's Local sSTudies Library, many aspects of Cannign Town's social life, inclusing the destructive effects of the last war and subsequent redevelopment, are here superbly illustrated.« less