Year	What Was Happening ?
« 1926	At St John's	In & Around Stratford	In The Church	In The World
1927	Reginald Wragge-Morley becomes vicar of St John's.	Chapel Street Ragged School closes. Broadway Cinema, Tramway Avenue, opened.		Allied control of Germany ends. Australian Parliament House opens in Canberra. Fifty-two nations attend an economic conference in Geneva, Switzerland. In Vienna, riots in the streets over acquittal of Nazis on trial for political murder. The German economy collapses In China, Chu Teh forms the Red Army. Johnny Weismuller swims 100 yards in 51 seconds. Charles Lindbergh flies non-stop from New York to Paris in the 'Spirit of St. Louis.'
1928	Curate Reginald Wernham leaves St Johns to become vicar of St Pauls, East Ham			The voting age for women in Britain is reduced to 21 from 30. Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin. The Thames overflows its banks. The Olympic Games are held in Amsterdam. Al Jolson's recording of 'Sonny Boy' sells 12 million records. Jawaharlal Nehru founds Independence of India League to help free India from British rule. Chaing Kai-shek elected President of China.
1929				BBC begins broadcasting daily programme of television shows. James Ramsey MacDonald becomes Prime Minister Trotsky is thrown out of the U.S.S.R. Herbert Hoover is elected US president. Wall Street stock market crashes and leads to the Great Depression.
1930				Amy Johnson is first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. UK to Australia telephone service began.
1931		Population of West Ham 294,278.		Spain elects it first president, Alasaraza Zamaora. The Japanese invade Manchuria.
1932 »	Cecil Morris becomes vicar of St John's