Video by Roger Stotesbury: The Last Match at the Boleyn
Watch Roger Stotesbury’s short documentary about the sights and sounds of the last day at West Ham’s iconic Upton Park
stadium. We meet the locals and the fans and enter the turnstiles one last time. It is the end of a way of life. There are tears. Filmed on Tuesday 10 May.
Animation by Aleks Budimir. Image of the branded Olympic Stadium is from West Ham United. (A local independent bookseller comments at 1:50).
Thank you, West Ham fans, for all your support
On Tuesday 10 May from 5 pm, we’re inviting West Ham fans who are also supporters of Newham Bookshop to come to the Bookshop to have a
drink with us before the last match at the Boleyn, against Manchester City.
West Ham fan and Newham Bookshop supporter Pete May tells the story of our connections with West Ham
stars and their books over many years, in his Hammers in the Heart blog.
Interested in learning more about Newham Bookshop and some of the people connected with it? We have four lessons for classroom or family use developed from On the Record’s oral history project centered around Newham Bookshop, Writing and Reading Newham. Click here for full details.
Newham Bookshop is LoveReading’s Bookshop of the Month
We are proud that Newham Bookshop is LoveReading’s Bookshop of the Month. The article features a Q&A with Vivian Archer, which you can read here.
