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Canning Town Town North and Canning Town South wards are in the London Borough of Newham. In May 2002 , Canning Town South was the only ward in the Borough to return a non-Labour councillor. In 2006 , residents elected three Christian Peoples Alliance candidates, one of whom was Alan Craig .
105 Barking Road is a former public hall in Canning Town, in the London Borough of Newham, in the United Kingdom.The building is situated in the ward of Canning Town South, on the north of Barking Road, to the northeast of Canning Town station. 105 Barking Road is a classic example of a Victorian town hall with links to East London's suffragette and labour movements during the late nineteenth ...
As the constituency's name suggested, it covered Poplar and Canning Town, as well as Limehouse and the Isle of Dogs. The breakdown of wards was: London Borough of Newham: Beckton, Canning Town and Grange, Custom House and Silvertown, Ordnance. London Borough of Tower Hamlets: Blackwall, Bromley, East India, Lansbury, Limehouse, Millwall, Shadwell.
Newham was one of the six host boroughs for the 2012 Summer Olympics and contains most of the Olympic Park including the London Stadium, and also contains the London City Airport. Major districts include East Ham, West Ham, Stratford, Plaistow, Forest Gate, Beckton and Canning Town.
The Limmo Peninsula is an area of Canning Town in the London Borough of Newham in London's East End. It lies on the east bank of Bow Creek at the mouth of the River Lea near Leamouth . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The borough included Plaistow, West Ham, Stratford, Canning Town and Silvertown – all of the current-day London Borough of Newham west of Green Street.At the time of the 1901 census it was the ninth most populous town or district in England with a population of 267,308. [4]
Ronan Point was a 22-storey tower block in Canning Town in Newham, East London, that partially collapsed on 16 May 1968, only two months after it opened.A gas explosion blew out some load-bearing walls, causing the collapse of one entire corner of the building; four people died and 17 were injured.
Canning Town is an interchange station located in Canning Town, London for London Underground, Docklands Light Railway (DLR) and London Buses services. It is designed as an intermodal metro and bus station , fully opening in 1999 as part of the Jubilee Line Extension - replacing the original station site north of the A13 .