Pages
Recent articles
- Bowlers strike out to raise vital funds for charity
- Riders brilliant effort for charity’s Easter Egg Appeal
- (no title)
- Sleighed by your kindness … Christmas Toy Appeal reaches target
- Launch of a special community appeal at the heart of our community
- Bidding to make a splash for vital Christmas appeal
- ‘Our Linda’ Lewis is honoured with a plaque to mark her journey from ‘Custom House to California’
- Wartime picture of Silvertown church
- Help Drew Primary School make music … and memories
- First hand account of Black Saturday and beyond – and memories of wartime North Woolwich and Silvertown
Looking for something?
Colin Grainger
Mauretania… the biggest ship ever seen in King George V Dock
A magical moment from Newham’s history…the famous Mauretania becomes the biggest ship in history to enter the Royal Docks in North Woolwich in 1939. My dad Bill Grainger reckons he is 246th person on the […]
True Grit of our Kim
Having been a journalist for over 40 years and having reviewed more plays, films, shows and books than I can remember, it is very hard when you know someone personally to write an unbiased analysis […]
Come On You Spurs
It’s 51 years since I first stepped inside White Hart Lane. And over 1,500 home games later, the magic is still there. There is still that tingle down the spine. Supporting the team that is […]
Community Links
The “New’am’ Recorder” has always been a family newspaper. Despite staff changes over 40 years, that family feeling always remained. We challenged those in power, fought against injustice and won awards for our work. But […]
Eddie the cat: TV critic and superstar
He’s the little fellow who has changed our lives… and continues to do so on a daily basis. And Eddie the ginger cat, or Eddie Ed as he is more commonly referred to, now rules […]
Read all about it
The following interview with me appeared in issue 263 of “The Newham Mag”, Newham Council’s fortnightly magazine about the Borough. Read all about it Colin Grainger joined the Newham Recorder as a trainee reporter […]
The heartbeat of Newham
I worked at the Newham Recorder from August 1972 to December 2012, more than 40 years. I began as a long-haired trainee reporter and worked my way up through the newsroom to become the newspaper’s Editor. An east […]