Editing West Ham United F.C. (section)

===Tower===
A yellow or white tower was added, intermittently, from the 1950s onwards.<ref>website shows much of the evolution of the badge http://theyflysohigh.co.uk/club-crest/4548286338</ref> The primary reason for this seems to be to represent ''Anne Boleyn's Tower'', the most notable feature of [[Green Street House]], an originally Tudor group of buildings which stood next to the [[Boleyn Ground]] until demolished in 1955. [[Green Street House]] was also known as ''Boleyn Castle'' through an association with [[Anne Boleyn]]. The manor was reputedly one of the sites at which [[Henry VIII]] courted his second queen, though there is no documentary evidence to support the tradition.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Various |title=East Ham: Manors and estates |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42741 |access-date=15 August 2009 |publisher=University of London & History of Parliament Trust}}</ref>

There are a number of other factors which may have influenced the inclusion of the stylised castle feature, for instance:
* to reflect the contribution made to the club by players of [[Old Castle Swifts]]
* The imposing towers, roofs and doorway of the Engineering Department of the [[Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company|Thames Ironworks]] bore a strong resemblance<ref>link to external image https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/0/02/Im1895EnV80-p567.jpg</ref> to the castle feature in earlier iterations of the badge.
* The first verse of the club's anthem [[I'm forever blowing bubbles]] begins "I'm dreaming dreams, I'm scheming schemes, I'm building castles high".
* The [[White Tower (Tower of London)|White Tower]] of the [[Tower of London]] as emblematic of [[East London]]. For hundreds of years, up until 1900, inner [[East London]] had been known as the [[Tower division|Tower Division]],<ref>The London Encyclopaedia, 1983, by Weinreb and Hibbert. The Encyclopaedia describes how the creation of the Tower Division, aka Tower Hamlets, made East London a distinct military unit</ref> an area which owed military service to the [[Tower of London]]. The (originally whitewashed) [[White Tower (Tower of London)|White Tower]] was used as insignia for the area, for instance on cap badges of local units of the army.
* In recognition of the [[West Ham#First World War – West Ham Pals|'West Ham Pals', the 13th Battalion]] of the [[Essex Regiment]] which was raised in [[Stratford, London|Stratford]] in 1915 and saw extensive action and heavy losses on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]] in the [[World War I]]. The Battalion was formed from volunteers from [[West Ham]] and [[East London]] generally. Their [[battle cry|war cry]] was "Up the Hammers". The cap badge of the [[Essex Regiment]] was the castle and key of Gibraltar, though the unit made an unsuccessful request to the [[War Office]] that crossed hammers could be used instead.<ref>"Up the Hammers" The West Ham Battalion in the Great War 1914–1918, by Elliot Taylor andBarney Alston.</ref>
* The adoption (in 1904) of Boleyn Castle FC<ref>{{Cite book |last=Colm Kerrigan |url=http://www.eastlondonhistory.com/hilsdon.htm |title="Gatling Gun" George Hildson |publisher=Football Lives |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-9530718-0-7 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013213249/http://eastlondonhistory.com/hilsdon.htm |archive-date=13 October 2007}}</ref> as the club's reserve side when they took over their grounds on the site.