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West Ham United crestWest Ham United
Original artwork for the crossed-hammers-and-castle West Ham United crest, c.1903–04.
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Culture & Identity

Bubbles, the crossed hammers, the chants. The shape of West Ham as a thing to belong to.

The story

'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles' since the late 1920s.Crossed hammers since the shipyard.The Boleyn castle since 1904.

Claret and blue since 1899.The visual and cultural identity that gives a hundred-and-thirty-year-old Club its consistent shape.

West Ham United · Est. 1895

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279 objects across 130 years of the Club. Every shirt, medal, programme and photograph.