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After the jewellery shops, you’ll come across a selection of restaurants on Green Street. But first, let’s take a small detour to see a beautiful Sikh temple.

Take the next left on Neville Street, where you will find the Ramgarhia Sikh Gurdwara Temple.

Head back to Green Street, for some food to tantalise the taste buds. here you will find a range of Gujerati, South Indian and Punjabi dishes.

Amongst these restaurants, you will see Barclay Hall on the corner of St Georges Road. This was built in 1905 as a prayer and meetings hall by the Barclay family, a Quaker banking family. Barclay Hall was restored in 1996 and still performs its original function. It is also available for private hire.

Keep walking along Green Street and soak up the exciting fusion of traditional and contemporary Asian fashion. The vast selection of Asian fabrics on offer ranges from the utilitarian to the exquisite and exotic. Look out for the glitzy accessories, such as matching bangles, bags, shawls and shoes.

Why not have a browse as you walk?

If you wish to keep walking up the road you will see the The Muslim Community Centre and Mosque

Cross the road here at the crossroads.

To your left, you will see another designer fashion shop at number 121, Chiffons. This store is so exclusive that you need to be buzzed in for entry! Now it’s time to turn around and start walking back down Green Street on this side of the road.

Throughout Green Street you will see beauty shops offering specialist beauty services, such as threading. This is an ancient method of hair removal, used for shaping the eyebrows. The delicate twisting action of the thread traps the hair and lifts it out of the follicle, less painfully and more effectively than tweezing. Another popular treatment is “mehndi”, more commonly known as henna. This is the traditional art of adorning the hands or feet with a paste made from the finely ground leaves of the henna plant. Once the green paste is removed from the body, a reddy orange ink-like stain remains for a while.

This is a popular form of beautification, practiced in India and other Middle Eastern nations. Resembling intricate tattoos, the designs are applied by hand by experienced professionals, who follow the latest fashions.

Next, you’ll see the Jevovah’s Witness Kingdom House, which claims to be the oldest in London.

Continue walking down Green Street and you will come across some amazing food shops. These are great places to stock up for a picnic at Priory Park, which is where we are headed.

Retrace your steps along Shaftesbury Road and turn left once more into Green Street

Continue walking along Green Street and make sure you look down at your feet. You’ll see the Green Street Pavement, which is a decorative mosaic designed by local community seniors and schoolchildren.

Walk down Green Street until you reach the corner of Plashet Grove (with the Duke of Edinburgh pub opposite on your right). Cross the road and then turn left up Plashet Grove. The road turns into Grangewood Road - keep walking along the right-hand side of the road. You will cross a bridge over the Tube line, and enter Priory Park which is on your right.

7. Priory Park

Priory Park is one of Newham’s 22 parks, a green space where Bobby Moore used to kick a football around when he was a child. For those who don’t know, Bobby Moore was a West Ham United football legend and Captain of England’s 1966 World Cup winning team. Follow the path through the park round to the back of West Ham stadium. The stadium is known as The Boleyn Ground, because legend has it that a grand house associated with Queen Anne Boleyn, wife of the Tudor king Henry VIII, was built around here in the 1500s. That association with King Henry Vlll is celebrated in the names of various streets and buildings in the vicinity, for example, Seymour Street and Cleves Primary School, both named after two more of Henry’s six wives, Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves.

Exit the park opposite the West Ham United Centenary Stand.

Turn left up Priory Road, making sure the stadium stays on your right.

On match days, you can grab a burger from the burger joint on your left, which does a roaring trade. If it is open, check out the names of their specialities!

Turn right at the end of the street into Barking Road. Cross the road and walk to your right.

This is heartland West Ham territory. There is no more fitting tribute than the statue in front of you, in the centre of the old crossroads. The Champions Statue is a marvellous reminder of West Ham’s massive contribution to England’s greatest football triumph in the World Cup of 1966. Sculpted by Philip Jackson and unveiled by Prince Andrew in 2003, it depicts West Ham’s Bobby Moore (England’s captain) on the shoulders of Martin Peters and Geoff Hurst. Ray Wilson stands slightly aside on the left. Wilson was from Everton football club but set up the first of a mesmerising hat-trick of goals from Hurst – the only hat-trick in any World Cup final.

Cross the road at the crossroads to reach the Newham Bookshop at 745-747

Barking Road.

Walk into the bookshop and, as you go in, note the photos of famous footballers, local and international celebrities pinned onto the wall on your left. They have all done book signings or author talks at the bookshop.

On your right, you will see an amazing range of books about London and its fascinating history.

Described by The Guardian as one of the best bookshops in Britain, Newham Bookshop also specialises in children’s literature and the latest bestsellers.

Cross the road and you will see The Boleyn Pub in front of you. This used to be a 19th-century coaching inn. In the wall in front of you, you can see the remains of the archway through which coaches and horses passed through to the now-vanished courtyard and stables at the back of the inn. These days, the pub is a home pub for Hammers fans.

Continue walking, turning left down Green Street until you reach Upton Park stadium, known as The Boleyn Ground.

This is the stadium for West Ham United Football Club. West Ham United or the Hammers have a devoted following, and the team has never been out of the top two divisions. The team song is ‘I’m forever blowing bubbles, pretty bubbles in the air’, because of an association in the 1920s with a local schoolboy footballer, who resembled the child in the famous Pears soap poster advert.

The Hammers participated in the first ever Wembley Final in 1923 – the famous ‘White Horse Final’, when a lone white police horse Billie pushed the capacity-crowd back off the pitch.

The club prides itself as being an ‘Academy of Football’, because their junior development programme is one of the most successful in the country.

The team’s claret and blue colours were originally the company colours of the old Thames Ironworks, where the team started as a social club, Thames Ironworks FC, in the early 20th century. They became a professional team in 1900. If you attend a match or do this walk on a match day, you will now understand the chant of “Come on you Irons”.

The club has a public bar for drinks and snacks if you fancy a break. You can even stay overnight here at the Quality Hotel, with its unique rooms overlooking the pitch.

Turn right out of the stadium.

If you are interested, take a brief detour by turning right at this point down Tudor Road. At the end, on the right, you will discover the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, whose participants are Mormons. This building has a colourful history, which mirrors the flow of various religions in this cosmopolitan area. Before becoming a Mormon church, the building was actually used as a Muslim mosque, while before that it was originally a Jewish synagogue.

Turn back along Tudor Road until you reach Green Street and turn right.

Cross the road at the crossing in front of Queens Market and walk into the market area.

This is one of Britain’s most diverse local markets, selling food, fabrics and homewares. The market started over 100 years ago with predominantly Jewish traders from Whitechapel. Today, you will find really friendly traders selling a dizzying array of fresh produce, from fresh coriander, thyme, yams and breadfruit to red snapper, tiger prawns and octopus. Why not pick up something special for dinner tonight?

When you have finished browsing this fantastic market, head back to Upton Park Station, completing your walk of Green Street.