Leyton Orient have signed former West Ham United defender Frazer Shaw and Dover Athletic's Connor Essam. 

Shaw, who impressed last season at Dulwich Hamlet, has spent this summer on trial with the O's and his performances have earned him a one-year deal at Brisbane Road. 

Hendon, who worked with Shaw at Upton Park, told the club website: "I am pleased to have Frazer on board. He's young, eager and very energetic.

"I feel he has benefitted from his spell in non-league. I think he has grown up and I had him at the Under-21 level at West Ham. He was very good at that level but for one reason or another he drifted away from the professional game for a year but he has come back, looks strong and he is going to be physically better off because he has been dealing with men every week rather than in Under-21 football. 

"To me he looks like he has developed. Technically I know what he is about and he has got to get fitter, but to be fair to him he has worked hard over pre-season, but when you have been out of the full time game for a year it takes a bit of time to get back to how you was." 

Essam has also joined Orient for an undisclosed fee from Dover in a two-year deal. The 23-year-old, who started off his career at Gillingham, has featured throughout pre-season as a trialist for the O's. 

Hendon said: "We are delighted to bring Connor in and he is someone both I and Andy Hessenthaler have worked with in the past.

"We gave him his debut at Gillingham back when me and Andy where there and he was literally a boy. He was a big lad but he was very skinny but now he has physically developed and he has already shown us what he is capable of, but he handled playing in the Conference last year for a season very well and we had no problems in taking Connor."