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Saracen Street, Poplar
The dwellings on Saracen Street form the north site of the Lansbury Estate. They were built 1951-1952 to the designs of architects Norman and Dawbarn. For a comprehensive account of the Lansbury Estate and the Festival of Britain (1951) see this http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46490. The shop on the left of the image was originally a public house, "The Chimes" built to the designs of architects Stewart & Hendry.
Image: © Jim Osley
Taken: 13 Aug 2014
0.05 miles
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Church of St Mary and St Joseph, Poplar
Built in the 1950s to the designs of architect Adrian Gilbert Scott (1882-1963).
Image: © Jim Osley
Taken: 13 Aug 2014
0.06 miles
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Grundy Street, Poplar
Seen from the junction with North Street. A combination of enemy action and slum clearance schemes means that most of Poplar has a post-war appearance. In this view there are various housing styles and a few remaining older buildings.
Image: © Stephen McKay
Taken: 23 Oct 2015
0.09 miles
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Upper North Street, Poplar
An attractive terrace of grade II listed Georgian town houses, a happy survival in an area comprehensively redeveloped since the Second World War. The effect is spoiled somewhat by the mauve wheely bins.
Image: © Stephen McKay
Taken: 23 Oct 2015
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Limehouse, Bartlett Park
Tower Hamlets park with football pitches and playground.
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 26 Aug 2012
0.10 miles
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Church of St Saviour from the air
A derelict church surrounded by a cluster of houses in an area of parkland. See
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Image: © Thomas Nugent
Taken: 26 Aug 2019
0.10 miles
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St. Saviour, Northumbria Street, Poplar
Image: © Chris Whippet
Taken: 8 Jan 2009
0.12 miles
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Canton Street, Poplar
The western end of Canton Street is line with blocks of flats, all built in the post-war era. This shows a walkway leading up from the street giving access to the block on the right. Canton Street is one of several in this immediate area with Chinese names.
Image: © Stephen McKay
Taken: 23 Oct 2015
0.12 miles
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Augusta Street, Poplar
Image: © Chris Whippet
Taken: 8 Jan 2009
0.12 miles
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Seamen's Rest, original entrance
This is the Jeremiah Street entrance of Queen Victoria Seamen's Rest opened in 1902. See http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConNarrative.141/chapterId/2941/The-welfare-of-seamen.html for contemporary photos.
Earlier there was a small mission, run by the Wesletyan Methodist church, consisting of a plainly furnished reading room and rest room with a third room available for daily Bible and Prayer meetings. An elementary nautical school ran three mornings a week and services were held on Monday and Friday evenings.
Prior to that on this spot stood a tavern appositely named The Magnet - a considerable attraction, no doubt, to the recently-paid-off sailors who thronged this area. The Methodists had it closed down and took over the site.
Image: © Natasha Ceridwen de Chroustchoff
Taken: 26 Jun 2008
0.12 miles