Editing Plaistow, Newham (section)

===1900–1995===
It was not until 1905 that Plaistow was connected to the telephone network,<ref name="Newham"/> though it became its own [[Plaistow (UK Parliament constituency)|UK Parliamentary constituency]] in 1918, consisting of the Plaistow and Hudsons wards of the [[County Borough of West Ham]], plus part of the Canning Town ward. That constituency was subsumed into the West Ham constituency in 1950.

The [[Memorial Community Church|Memorial Baptist Church]] was built in 1921 as a monument to the dead of the First World War.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England| num=1246354|desc=Memorial Baptist Church|access-date=31 May 2012}}</ref> Opened in 1922, it is now a grade II listed building.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.memorialcc.org/about/history/ | title=History | publisher=Memorial Community Church | access-date=27 July 2012 | archive-date=21 September 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921022940/http://www.memorialcc.org/about/history/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> Its ten Memorial Bells bear the names of more than 150 men who died in the fighting (the largest number of names on any set of bells in the world).<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.memorialcc.org/about/news/rededication-of-the-memorial-bells_56/ | title=Rededication of the Memorial Bells | publisher=Memorial Community Church | date=21 November 2011 | access-date=10 December 2012 | archive-date=3 March 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230008/http://www.memorialcc.org/about/news/rededication-of-the-memorial-bells_56/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> The bells were cleaned and restored using a National Heritage Lottery grant between February and August 2011<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/lottery_grant_to_restore_plaistow_church_bells_1_788694 | title=Lottery grant to restore Plaistow church bells | newspaper=EDP24 | date=1 February 2011 | access-date=10 December 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924023825/http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/lottery_grant_to_restore_plaistow_church_bells_1_788694 | archive-date=24 September 2015 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref> as part of a larger restoration project.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.eolfhs.org.uk/news/files/4ac260be61baedf9b4aca899bcb71974-249.html | title=Plaistow church bells restored | publisher=The East of London Family History Society | date=31 August 2011 | access-date=10 December 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002101310/http://www.eolfhs.org.uk/news/files/4ac260be61baedf9b4aca899bcb71974-249.html | archive-date=2 October 2011 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

[[File:Greengate House.jpg|thumb|Greengate House photographed in 2021]]
In 1921, the [[YMCA]] opened Greengate House on Greengate Street.  Now a grade II listed building, it was once used as an [[Art college]] by the [[University of East London]] and students included [[Jake and Dinos Chapman]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/8639662/Jake-and-Dinos-Chapman-at-the-White-Cube-in-pictures.html?image=2 | title=Jake and Dinos Chapman at the White Cube in pictures | newspaper=The Telegraph | access-date=6 March 2013 | location=London | date=15 July 2011}}</ref> In 2010 the building was demolished but the grand and ornate façade was retained and modernised and a new block of flats built behind it.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ellisandmoore.co.uk/greengate-house-plaistow-g68.html | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130420102530/http://www.ellisandmoore.co.uk/greengate-house-plaistow-g68.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=20 April 2013 | title=Greengate House, Plaistow | publisher=Ellis & Moore Consulting Engineers Ltd | access-date=6 March 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.newhamstory.com/node/2436 | title=Greengate House Apartments | publisher=Newham London | access-date=6 March 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130315032055/http://newhamstory.com/node/2436 | archive-date=15 March 2013 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

The area was heavily damaged during [[the Blitz]] in the [[Second World War]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.nebp.org.uk/regen/plaistow/ | title=Plaistow, Green Street, Upton Park and West Ham | publisher=Newham Education Business Partnership | access-date=12 December 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920072317/http://www.nebp.org.uk/regen/plaistow/ | archive-date=20 September 2011 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref> The Plaistow North area is largely made up of a local authority housing estate constructed in the 1960s on a bomb-damaged site. The estate used to include five 14-storey 1960s tower blocks but much has changed and the area has undergone a major redevelopment programme. The Black Lion public house was frequented by [[West Ham United F.C.|West Ham United]] football players especially such as [[Bobby Moore]] in the 1960s and '70s<ref>{{cite news|title=Harry Redknapp still hungry for success with Tottenham |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/tottenham-hotspur/4864718/Harry-Redknapp-still-hungry-for-success-with-Tottenham.html|work=Daily Telegraph|access-date=20 November 2011|author=Henry Winter|date=27 February 2009|location=London}}</ref> with several West Ham footballers spotted in the area since.

In 1965 Plaistow became part of the new London Borough of Newham, formed when West Ham joined with the [[County Borough of East Ham]] and small parts of [[Municipal Borough of Barking|Barking]] and [[Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich|Woolwich]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.civicheraldry.co.uk/great_london.html | title=NEWHAM, LONDON BOROUGH OF | publisher=Civic Heraldry of England and Wales | access-date=9 August 2012}}</ref>