Published:
5:44 PM June 9, 2021
L-R: Lloyd Jeans, Neandra Etienne and Paul Romane with the Newham Heritage plaque commemorating the location of the Upper Cut Club in Forest Gate where Jimi Hendrix wrote Purple Haze.
- Credit: Andrew Baker
Plaques have gone up to mark where Jimi Hendrix penned a musical masterpiece and an underground recording studio had its home.
Hendrix s song Purple Haze was completed in London on Boxing Day in 1966 in the dressing room of the Upper Cut Club in Forest Gate.
The once star-filled venue has since been demolished, but Neandra Etienne - who lives in the borough - campaigned to have the location memorialised with a plaque in Woodgrange Road.
PC Charlie Harrison was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court yesterday (April 12).
- Credit: MPS
A police officer who was jailed for grievous bodily harm (GBH) has been sacked without notice by the Met.
Pc Charlie Harrison was on duty in plain clothes when he lashed out with his foot and knocked a man to the ground in front of his two sons in Sebert Road, Forest Gate, on New Year s Eve in 2018.
The 39-year-old, who was attached to the Met s violent crime taskforce, appeared to be carrying out a police stop, according to the Met.
Cmdr Paul Betts said: This is a very serious matter with Pc Harrison jailed following his conviction for GBH.
Annette Quinn
Shafique Khan (DJ Chef)
- Credit: Fatou XX and Elijah Sserunjogi
Two young people have interviewed a DJ as part of a project on a long-standing record shop for Newham Heritage Month 2021.
Forest Gate Youth Zone members Fatou XX and Elijah Sserunjogi learnt oral and photography skills when they caught up with Shafique Khan (DJ Chef) as part of Rendezvous Projects oral history interviews for the project Crate Digging: The Influence of De Underground Records.
Fatou XX and Elijah Sserunjogi learnt photography skills when they caught up with Shafique Khan (DJ Chef)
- Credit: Katherine Green
Rendezvous Projects said the Sebert Road shop and recording studio was pivotal to British underground dance music and culture, as well as influential for a generation of local musicians and music lovers.
Beckton Gasworks pictured in the 1960s. Newham Archives and Local Studies
- Credit: Newham Archives and Local Studies
Details of this year s Newham Heritage Month have been announced, with the line-up including brickmaking, feminism, corner shops and more.
The celebration, which is funded by the National Lottery, will take place mainly online with free events and activities throughout May.
Rosie Murdoch, programme manager, said: This year’s line-up has exciting invitations for everyone, from Kid’s Trails to underground record stores, revolutionary feminists to music and memories, poetry to brickmaking.
L-R: Mike De Underground, Randall, Marly Marl, MC Fats, Cool Hand Flex and Jonny 2 Bad outside De Underground Records in Sebert Road, Forest Gate in July 1995. The shop features in this year s Newham Heritage Month.