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Newham
The London Borough of Newham is a London borough in East London, within Greater London.
It is situated 5 miles east of the City of London and north of the River Thames.
Newham is established as a centre of UK urban music and grime. Forest Gate is home of Kano and Plan B, two top selling artists within the grime scene.
From Newham are The Mitchell Brothers, a duo of rappers who are signed to The Streets record label 'The Beats'. Their musical style is heavily influenced by the mythologies of working class East End life such as drinking down the pub, football, clothing styles such as Stone Island and Fred Perry, unemployment, drug dealing and crime.
Canning Town is the birth place of 'Oi! Punk' band Cockney Rejects. The band were known for their violent and aggressive lyrics which focused on the topics of pub brawls, East End gang fighting and crime in general. Most noticeable was the fan following of the Cockney Rejects which included West Ham's notorious hooligan following the ICF (Inter-City Firm). Actors from Newham include Danny Dyer from Canning Town.
History
The borough was formed by merging the former area of the Essex county boroughs of East Ham and West Ham within the newly formed Greater London, on 1 April 1965. Green Street marks the former boundary between the two. North Woolwich also became part of the borough (previously being in the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich, in the County of London) along with a small area west of the River Roding which had previously been part of the Municipal Borough of Barking. Newham was devised for the borough as an entirely new name.
According to a study carried out in 2006 for a Channel 4 television programme, it is the "4th worst" place to live in the UK; the study took into account crime rates, school results, pollution, economic activity and property prices. In the same study, neighbouring Tower Hamlets and Hackney came in at 2nd and 1st place respectively.
Districts
- Beckton
- Canning Town
- Custom House
- East Ham
- Forest Gate
- Little Ilford
- Manor Park
- North Woolwich
- Plaistow (pronounced Plarr-stow)
- Silvertown
- Stratford
- Upton Park
- West Ham
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