Year	What Was Happening ?
« 1850	At St John's	In & Around Stratford	In The Church	In The World
1851	William Holloway becomes Perpetual Curate of St John's.	Population of Stratford: 10,586 Chapel Street Ragged School opens.	The Census includes a unique Ecclesiastical Census.	The Great Exhibition
1852		Stratford Marsh, or Stratford-in-the-Marsh, becomes a separate parish from Stratford. Parish church is Christchurch, corner of Union Street and High Street. Edward Cridge, curate at All Saints, West Ham, is appointed vicar. The Parish of Forest Gate formed, Parish church is Emmanual, corner of Upton Lane and Romford Road.		Cholera epidemic sweeps Britain The Earl of Aberdeen becomes Prime Minister
1853				Franklin Pierce is elected president of the United States.
1854		Edward Cridge leaves Christchurch to become chaplain of the Hudson's Bay Co in Canada. James Stopford Ram becomes vicar. Forest Lane Industrial School opened by the Whitechapel Board of Guardians		Commodore Mathew Perry visits Japan, opening the island to trade with the U.S., ending its isolation from the world.
1855		Channelsea School opens, administered by the Vicar of Christ Church.		Viscount Palmerston becomes Prime Minister
1856		West Ham constituted a local government area and Local Board of Health established.
1857		John Snow reports on an outbreak of Cholera at Abbey Row, due to a contaminated well pump, which lays low one-fifth of the population of the area and kills 6 people.	The work of the Plaistow and Victoria Dock Mission gets a mention in Charles Dickens' 'Household Words', in September and the name 'London over the Border' is coined.	Indian soldiers revolt against the British. Great Britain takes over Indian rule from the East India Company. James Buchanan is elected president of the United States.
1858		J M Kennedy becomes vicar of Christchurch.		The Earl of Derby becomes Prime Minister
1859		Maryland Road Mission opened		Viscount Palmerston becomes Prime Minister
1860
1861		John Strickland becomes vicar of Christchurch. West Ham, Stratford & South Essex Dispensary (later Queen Mary's Hospital) opens. Gurney Memorial built Stratford Co-operative Society founded. Population of Stratford: 15,994		Beginning of the American Civil War
1862
1863		Metropolitan Northern Outfall sewer constructed (completed 1865).	the Bishop of London's Fund established - the first of a succession of funds to assist in the problems of 'London over the Border'.
1864 »	William Holloway Dies. George Stopford Ram becomes Perpetual Curate of St John's	James Wray Carter becomes vicar of Christchurch.