Description: The film includes East Ham boys' football game, Aldersbrooke Homes November 5th bonfire and fireworks, New style PT at St Stephens, Nativity play at Sandringham (primary school in Newham, formerly in East Ham until 1965), Queen Mother visits East Ham.

Title: Langdon Films present: Windows on East Ham, An educational magazine film, issue no. 1, 1954

An aerial shot of East Ham streets and houses

IT: East Ham Junior Boys win Crisp Shield

1953/54 season. Boys playing football match which is well shot, intercut with shots of the crowd (both boys and girls) cheering. Views of the streets and houses that back on to the park where the match is being played. Shots of penalty being taken. At the end of the match the crowd rush onto the pitch to celebrate. A shot of the East Ham players accepting the shield.

IT: November 5th at Aldersbrook Homes

Huge bonfire surrounded by crowd, followed by fireworks display, including a man lighting rockets.

IT: New style PT at St Stephens

Mixed boys and girls on climbing frames, small pummel horse and apparatus in the school hall. No safety mats.

IT: Nativity play at Sandringham

Typical nativity play with all children participating.

IT: Queen Mother visits East Ham

A visit of the Queen Mother to an East Ham hospital with large crowds of the public waiting in the rain and an honour guard of nurses. She was opening a new outpatients' wing in the East Ham Memorial Hospital on the 11 June 1954. A shot at the end showing the new building.

The End

A production of Langdon Films