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3 unusual facts about West Ham station


New West Ham Stadium

The London Development Authority wanted the club to build a new ground on the site of a Parcelforce depot southwest of West Ham station.

West Ham station

East London Rugby Football Club is situated nearby on Holland Road, which is also home to Kings Cross Steelers RFC and Phantoms RFC.

In November 1897 Arnold Hills, the owner of the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, whose football team Thames Ironworks FC (reformed in 1900 as West Ham United) played at the Memorial Grounds, secured an agreement with the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway to build a station at Manor Road.



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