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Hale Street, E14
Image: © Danny P Robinson
Taken: 25 Jun 2009
0.02 miles
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Turf Zone "StunyGarden"
Park on Stoneyard Lane, Poplar, London.
Image: © Ian S
Taken: 25 Dec 2022
0.03 miles
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Housing estate, Poplar
These blocks of flats, seen from Hale Street, were erected in the 1930s as part of a huge slum clearance exercise in this part of London.
Image: © Natasha Ceridwen de Chroustchoff
Taken: 26 Jun 2008
0.04 miles
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Former School of Marine Engineering, Poplar High Street
Built in 1902-06 by the London County Council's Architect's Department. Of Portland stone, with a curious and interesting facade in which some windows are semi-circular and deeply recessed in arches with intervening pairs of columns. Grade II listed.
It is now part of Tower Hamlets College (as is the "clumsy" extension to the right).
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: Unknown
0.05 miles
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George Lansbury on Poplar rates rebellion mural
George Lansbury is shown here heading the march that took place on 29 July 1921 when the councillors and 2,000 supporters, marched five miles to the High Court, whither they had been summonsed, with a banner stating "Poplar Borough Council, Marching to the High Court and Possibly to Prison, To Secure The Equalisation of Rates For Poor Boroughs".
George Lansbury, a local MP both before and after this event, had already been in prison (and on hunger strike) in 1912 for supporting suffragist activities.
See http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRlansbury.htm
Image: © Natasha Ceridwen de Chroustchoff
Taken: 26 Jun 2008
0.05 miles
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Poplar rates rebellion mural, Hale Street
This mural commemorates an important radical victory in 1921 when Poplar's Labour council, under the mayor George Lansbury, took a unilateral decision to use more of the money raised by the rates on poor relief in their own disadvantaged borough instead of forwarding it to the government for city-wide disbursement. As a result of their defiance Lansbury and the majority of the local council (24 men, 6 women) were imprisoned and during that period council meetings took place in jail. Huge crowds gathered outside Brixton prison to show solidarity. After six weeks of imprisonment, the councillors were released and, shortly afterwards, a new system of levies introduced. As a result of Lansbury's stand, further alleviating reforms were also introduced to local government finance and poor relief.
The mural lists the names of the rate rebels but it appears to be the only public commemoration of the protest to be found in the borough.
Image: © Natasha Ceridwen de Chroustchoff
Taken: 26 Jun 2008
0.06 miles
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Bowling Green, Poplar
At the corner of Hale Street and Poplar High Street.
Image: © Danny P Robinson
Taken: 25 Jun 2009
0.06 miles
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Poplar rates rebellion mural, detail
Poplar council's defiance of government's municipal funding policy in 1921 received huge community support and Poplar Town Hall (now demolished) was mobbed. However the leader of the rebellion, George Lansbury, was editor of the Daily Herald (which he helped to found) not Reynold's News which was another left-wing newspaper. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Herald
http://www.ppu.org.uk/learn/infodocs/people/pst_lansbury.html
Image: © Natasha Ceridwen de Chroustchoff
Taken: 26 Jun 2008
0.06 miles
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Queen Victoria Seamen's Rest, 121 -131 East India Dock Road, E14
A seamen's hostel -- the last in East London and the largest in the UK. Many retired seafarers now live here. See the Merchant Navy Welfare Board link http://www.mnwb.org/index.php/news-reader.89/items/queen-victoria-seamens-rest.665.html
Image: © Danny P Robinson
Taken: 11 Jul 2009
0.08 miles
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Saltwell Street, Poplar
Saltwell Street turns to the left passed the deck access block to become Poplar High Street. The towers of Canary Wharf - another world altogether - loom up in the background.
Image: © Stephen McKay
Taken: 23 Oct 2015
0.10 miles