Green Street, Newham

Morley's Corner is the site of the Champions statue commemorating West Ham's players who helped win the 1966 World Cup: Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst, Ray Wilson, and Martin Peters.

[7] In 1931 Gandhi visited London for a period of 3 months for talks on the future of India, he based himself at Kingsley Hall in Bromley-by-Bow and was enthusiastically received by East Enders.

It is said that he attended several West Ham games during his stay[8] and visited the Boleyn Tavern where he drank cream soda while discussing football and radical politics with local people.

[9] Gandhi was a keen football fan, establishing three teams in South Africa,[10] and already had a strong connection to West Ham United through his friendship with its founder, Arnold Hills, while living in London completing his law studies in 1888–91.

[13] The road has an array of shops specialising in primarily South Asian goods, catering to those with strong cultural and familial ties to Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.

An article written by journalist Larry Ferguson in 2003 encapsulated this and focused on the Fashion designer, Bubs Mahil who ran and continues to run the famous saree house Chiffons London in Green Street, Forest Gate, and has made costumes for Bollywood diva Aishwarya Rai as well as British Prime Minister Tony Blair — who wore her Nehru jacket in India — and his wife, Cherie.

[14] In the early 1990s and 21st century she also made headlines for dressing other notable people including Prince Buthalezi, Richard Branson, Mark Ramprakash, Britt Ekland, Parminder Nagra, Gurinder Chadha, Meera Syal, Myleene Klass and Joss Stone.