Name: Bells and Whistles - Family Arts Workshop
Start: 2025-09-20T10:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-20T12:30:00+01:00
Location: Art in the Docks

Bells and Whistles - Family Arts Workshop

Newham Heritage Month

The sounding of ships horns once heralded the New Year. This family-oriented creative workshop explores a unique Royal Docks tradition.

Art in the Docks

Newham Heritage Month 2025

Newham Heritage Month is an annual heritage festival organised by Newham Council with kind support from National Lottery Heritage Fund. In 2025, the festival will take place in September 2025 with a programme of events on the theme of 'Newham at 60'.

The Royal Docks has always been a place of arrivals and departures. Ships from across the globe once found harbour here, bringing cargo, commerce, and people to London's eastern edge. As midnight struck on December 31st, 1965, the air filled with a symphony of ship horns, church bells, and the celebratory sounds of dockland families—a community united in tradition, standing at the threshold of change. No one could have predicted that within a generation, these docks would fall silent, their purpose abandoned as containerisation revolutionized maritime trade.'Bells and Whistles' will recapture this pivotal moment in the Royal Docks' history—not simply as an exercise in nostalgia, but as a bridge between generations and communities. We stand now at another threshold: sixty years later, the Royal Docks area has transformed once again. New residents from across the globe have made this place their home, pursuing the same dreams of prosperity that once led previous generations to depart.These parallel stories of arrival and departure, hope and resilience, form the heart of our project.Come and hear the story in this fun family-oriented community arts workshop.

Bells and Whistles - Family Arts Workshop

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