34-549: St Mark's Church, Silvertown or St Mark's Church, Victoria Docks is a former church building in Silvertown in east London, located on North Woolwich Road. It takes one of its names from the nearby Royal Docks . It was listed as Grade II* in 1971 and now houses the Brick Lane Music Hall. The church was founded as a joint church and school, housed in an iron building and opened in 1857. Samuel Sanders Teulon
68-647: A loss of shops, post office, local social club, and library. Of the many previous pubs along the Albert Road in Silvertown, only one now remains. Some small pockets of residential development occurred in the 1980s, however since then, little has been done to improve the centre of Silvertown. Further west, the residential area of Britannia Village was developed in the 1990s in what would come to be known as "West Silvertown". On 21 April 2015, Newham Council gave planning permission to The Silvertown Partnership for
102-641: A massive TNT explosion at the Brunner-Mond munitions factory, in what is known as the Silvertown explosion . Seventy three people died and hundreds were injured in one of the largest explosions ever experienced in the British Isles. In the early 20th century the area suffered greatly from road congestion due to being located between the Thames and the Royal Docks , then the largest and one of
136-509: A new community arts and creative space called The Factory Project. A £3.5 billion redevelopment of part of the district was approved in 2015. In 1852 S.W. Silver & Company moved to the area from Greenwich and established a rubber works, originally to make waterproof clothing. This subsequently developed into the works of the India Rubber, Gutta Percha and Telegraph Works Company , which constructed and laid many submarine cables . By
170-422: A new £3.5 billion redevelopment in the area. The 7 million square foot (650,000 m ) development will provide offices, a tech hub, 3,000 new homes and brand experience pavilions. A school, health centre and shops are also included in the plan and a new bridge will cross the Royal Docks to get people to Custom House station and Crossrail . However, little of this proposed redevelopment will benefit
204-701: Is London City Airport , with Pontoon Dock station also nearby. Access to Silvertown was much improved by an extension of the Docklands Light Railway from Canning Town to Woolwich Arsenal , which opened on 02 December 2005. The old Silvertown railway station on the North London Line was closed in 2006. A new London Underground station at nearby Custom House built by Crossrail was opened in 2022, adding further public transport access to and from central London, Essex, and direct service to London Heathrow Airport. Locally, this new line used
238-453: Is a novelistic account of her grandmother's life in the area, where she and her husband ran a cafe. The Sugar Girls , by Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi, tells the true stories of women who worked at Tate & Lyle 's Silvertown factories, and features much detail on the area. E postcode area The E (Eastern) postcode area , also known as the London E postcode area , is
272-688: Is a road tunnel under the Thames which will open in 2025 and provide a toll route to the Greenwich peninsula. Transport For London public buses that serve Silvertown include the 473 that runs from Stratford to North Woolwich and the 474 that operates from Canning Town to Manor Park. Both the 473 and 474 make stops at London City Airport. A new route 241 runs between Straford and Pontoon Dock. Some attempts have been made in recent years to establish bicycling lanes, however ongoing construction and road works limit access and cyclists generally are required to share
306-605: The East Ham part of St Mark's parish in 1877 to become a parish church of its own) and St Barnabas' Church, West Silvertown in 1882 (which became a parish of its own in 1926). The building survived the war but the decline of the London docks in the 1960s led to a sharp drop in local population and major slum clearances in the area. The church was declared redundant in 1974 and its parish merged with those of two of its former mission churches, St Barnabas' and St John's – St Barnabas
340-548: The London E16 postcode district along with Canning Town and Custom House . The area was named after the factories established by Stephen William Silver in 1852, . The riverside of central Silvertown continues to be dominated by the Tate & Lyle sugar refinery, with residential developments being built to its east and west. Central Silvertown features St Marks Church (now Brick Lane Music Hall), London City Airport, and
374-582: The Paddington Head District Sorting Office. The E20 postcode has been used fictionally in television soap-opera EastEnders since 1985. It has been a real postcode since 2011 carved from and only bordered by the E15 postcode, its buildings marketed as and often self-identifying as Olympic Park and Queen Elizabeth Park. It includes landmark sports venues built for the 2012 Summer Olympics . The approximate coverage of
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#1732783748498408-401: The 1860s a number of manure and chemical works and petroleum storage depots had been set up. In 1864, the area became an ecclesiastical parish of its own, centred on the church of St Mark's . Sugar refiners in the area were joined by Henry Tate in 1877 and Abram Lyle in 1881, whose companies merged in 1921 to form Tate & Lyle . Prior to the merger, which occurred after they had died,
442-623: The East End. Silvertown Silvertown is a district in the London Borough of Newham , in east London , England. It lies on the north bank of the Thames and was historically part of the parishes of West Ham and East Ham , hundred of Becontree , and the historic county of Essex . Since 1965 , Silvertown has been part of the London Borough of Newham, a local government district of Greater London. It forms part of
476-595: The London economy. The redevelopment is planned to include the restoration of former flour factory Millennium Mills . In January 2015, the Mayor of London announced an initial £12m of government funding to start work on demolishing part of Millennium Mills and clearing it of asbestos . Prior to this latest development, the area was transformed in the 1970s by the construction of the Thames Barrier , an adjacent park, new housing areas and London City Airport . In
510-770: The Silvertown Rubber Works were all badly damaged by bombing. Silver's was eventually taken over by the British Tyre and Rubber Co, later known as BTR Industries . The site closed in the 1960s and is now the Thameside Industrial Estate. Another major local employer was the Loders and Nucoline plant at Cairn Mills, a traditional port oleo industry and formerly part of Unilever . This originally milled seeds but later concentrated on production of fats from palm kernel oil . The area
544-442: The busiest dock groups in the world. The area was cut off for much of the time by lifting bridges over dock entrances and level crossings which were closed for up to three-quarters of each hour by train movements. This led in the early 1930s to the construction of the elevated Silvertown Way , one of the earliest urban flyovers. On the first night of The Blitz , Tate and Lyle's sugar refinery, John Knight's Primrose Soapworks, and
578-577: The east. The postcode area is roughly the combined area of the London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets , Newham and Waltham Forest . Also, the eastern part of the London Borough of Hackney , the western sections of the London Boroughs of Redbridge (E11, E12, E18) and Barking and Dagenham (E6) and a small part of the Epping Forest District (E4), are within the postcode area. The postcode area excludes parts of East London like
612-436: The first chapter "Sea, Soup and Silvertown" the author describes his grandparents' flight from the area during The Blitz and the inspiration for the book. The docks and factories of Silvertown also provide the backdrop for his 2015 book Constance Street which traces the once thriving community through the lives of 12 women and their struggle for survival during the chaos of the war years. Melanie McGrath 's book Silvertown
646-574: The former Truman's Brewery building in Brick Lane , before moving to Shoreditch and then its present building. It was established by Vincent Hayes, who had previously run and performed in Music Hall shows at the Lord Hood pub, where he was landlord during the 1980s. The church's exterior was left largely unchanged, whilst a stage, bar, kitchen and lighting and sound equipment were added to
680-456: The historic centre of residential Silvertown. The Silvertown Partnership were selected as the development partner to take forward the regeneration of the site. Their plan was to develop the site with homes, restaurants, commercial buildings, local convenience retail facilities, and significant public realm for community use. They predicted that it would provide up to 20,700 new jobs, up to 3,000 homes and contribute £260m each year of gross value to
714-632: The interior, with offices housed in the church's former vestry. In 2004 a mural was painted on the wall behind the church's exterior war memorial, whilst a new lighting and sound rig was installed in October 2006. Audiences are seated at tables in a cabaret-style arrangement and food is served during the interval at matinees and before the show in the evenings. Brick Lane Music Hall is licensed for weddings and civil partnership ceremonies as well as being involved in workshops for schools, as well as taking shows to community centres, care homes and hospices throughout
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#1732783748498748-806: The mid-1990s much of the business activity in the area was centred on the brewing firm Bass . In 2007 Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester visited Silvertown, to formally open the new Silvertown Ambulance Station on North Woolwich Road. The Tate & Lyle Thames Refinery is a safeguarded wharf in the Port of London . It is one of the largest sugar refineries in the world, with a capacity of 1.2 million tonnes per annum. The Raw Sugar and Refined and Shore Berth jetties include two bulk-handling crane . The terminal commodities are sugar, as dry bulks, and edible and vegetable oils, as liquid bulks: it exports globally and imports from Fiji , Caribbean , Africa and South America . The nearest Docklands Light Railway station
782-485: The part of the London post town covering much of east London , England . It borders the N postcode area to the west, both north of the tidal Thames . Since closure of the East London mail centre , its mail is sorted at Romford Mail Centre together with IG and RM postcode areas. The current E postcode area was originally formed in 1866 as a merger of the E and NE areas, which had been created in 1858. In 1917,
816-511: The postal districts were numbered alphabetically by their most important parish, chapelry, topographical or built environment feature. As of 2004, the district names do not form part of the postal address. High demand caused sector 9 of the E1 postcode district to be split and recoded in 1999 to create an E1W postcode district around Wapping, but the rest of the district did not gain an additional character. When districts are used for purposes other than
850-531: The postcode districts, with the historic postal district names in italics , is as follows: The E17 postcode district is one of four to have a population above 100,000. The E postcode district is bounded by the River Thames to the south. Postcode districts E6, E14 and E16 also have river frontages in the south. The River Roding and the North Circular Road form part of the boundary in
884-468: The road with motor vehicle users. Silvertown is featured in a ballad by Mark Knopfler , titled Silvertown Blues , which describes the area as it was before redevelopment. 'Silvertown' was the name of a Men They Couldn't Hang album released in 1989. One song 'Blackfriers Bridge' mentions Silvertown. The district also features in Charlie Connelly 's 2004 book, Attention All Shipping . In
918-472: The sorting of mail, such as use as a geographic reference and on street signs, E1 and E1W continue to be commonly classed as one 'district'. The E postcode area contains two non-geographic postcode districts for high-volume business users, E77 and E98. The Eastern District Office is on Whitechapel Road and was the eastern terminus for the former London Post Office Railway , which has been mothballed since 2003. The railway ran 10.5 kilometres (6.5 mi) to
952-458: The strikers who had immense popular support. Leading figures in the strike included Tom Mann and Eleanor Marx . The workers were eventually starved back to work, with many being victimised for their role. In the aftermath of the strike, Silver's declared a half-yearly dividend of 5 per cent. The rest of the industry congratulated Silver's management for holding a line against New Unionism. On 19 January 1917, parts of Silvertown were devastated by
986-508: The trackbed of the old North London Line and there is passive provision for a stop serving Silvertown to be built in future. The London Cable Car connects West Silvertown with the Greenwich peninsula . London City Airport is located in central Silvertown. A new bridge to connect West Silvertown with Crossrail's Custom House station is one of the features of a £3.5bn redevelopment plan for London's Royal Docks. The Silvertown Tunnel
1020-401: The two men were bitter business rivals, although they had never met. Tate & Lyle still has two large refineries in the area. In 1889 Silver's factory was the scene of a twelve-week-long strike by the majority of its 3,000 workers. The strikers were demanding higher pay and were inspired by the recent successes of New Unionism in the East End of London. Management refused to negotiate with
1054-528: Was also declared redundant, with St John's becoming the sole church for the resulting parish of North Woolwich with Silvertown. The church building was bought in 1979 by Newham Council , with the intention of turning it into a museum. A major fire in 1981 largely destroyed the roof, which was replaced between 1984 and 1989. After the fire the Brick Lane Music Hall took on the building, converting it to its present use in 2003 to host traditional music hall and variety shows. Brick Lane Music Hall had opened in 1992 in
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1088-461: Was made the parish's patron. St Mark's also founded mission churches at St Matthew's, Custom House in 1860, which was later transferred to St Luke's Church, Canning Town before becoming a parish of its own in 1920. St Luke's itself was originally a mission church of St Mark's before being made a parish of its own on its permanent church's completion in 1875. St Mark's also opened the mission churches of St John's, North Woolwich in 1872 (which took
1122-413: Was part of the ancient parishs of West Ham and East Ham , Essex , from the 12th century onwards. The Local Government Act 1894 created East Ham Urban District. West Ham became a county borough in 1900, before merging with East Ham to create the new London Borough of Newham in 1965. Since the closure of the former mainline Silvertown rail station, the small commercial area nearby has suffered, with
1156-578: Was taken on as the designer of a permanent church, which opened in 1862 and was promoted to a separate parish two years later, taking parts of Woolwich (centred on St Mary Magdalene Woolwich on the opposite bank of the Thames) and East Ham . The docks' manager Charles Capper was allowed to nominate the first vicar, but after that the bishop of London (or after 1884 the Corporation of the City of London)
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