I can't find any pics but there is a book of archive photos of Canning town by Bloch & Harris. You may be able to get it from your local library
Canning Town (Archive Photographs) (Paperback)
by Howard Bloch (Author), Nick Harris (Author)
For information
The church of ST. GABRIEL, Canning Town, Wellington Street, originated about 1868. A map of that year shows an unnamed iron church between the river Lea and the railway, just north of Barking Road, in the position later occupied by St. Gabriel's. (fn. 170) A brick building was consecrated in 1876. (fn. 171) St. Gabriel's was at first a mission of West Ham, but in 1879 a separate parish was formed from parts of West Ham, St. Mary's, and St. Andrew's. The advowson of the vicarage, originally vested in the bishop, was in 1886 transferred to the Lord Chancellor, so that the benefice could be augmented from the revenues of All Hallows, London Wall. (fn. 172) In 1884 services were started in Hermit Road, where an iron church was erected in 1896. Another mission was started in Clifton Road, where the church of ST. FAITH was built in 1891–2. A third mission, in Grange Road, was opened in 1891. Of these only St. Faith's appears to have remained in use by the 1920s. (fn. 173) St. Gabriel's itself was damaged during the Second World War, and was demolished about 1955. In 1961 part of the parish was merged in that of St. Matthias, the remainder going to St. Luke.
From: 'West Ham: Churches', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6 (1973), pp. 114-123. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42761. Date accessed: 27 March 2008.
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