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Poplar: Saint Frideswide's Mission House, Lodore Street, E14
Saint Frideswide's Mission House was built in 1892 here in Lodore Street and was originally a mission run by Christ Church, Oxford. At first services were held in a room in this Mission House, but a church was later built in Follett Street at the junction with Lodore Street, where the building on the right is now. The Church was severely damaged during the Blitz, completely demolished in 1947 and never rebuilt.
Behind the black railings at the top of the stone entranceway is a small statue, presumably of the eponymous saint. Saint Frideswide is the patron saint of Oxford, accredited with the founding of Christ Church, hence the connection.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 19 Aug 2008
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Poplar: Follett Street, E14 (1)
The changing demographics of the East End are visible here. High up on the building on the right is an advert that I can't quite completely decipher, but seems to be advising that the family grocers previously resident there used to have the largest sale of a certain brand of soap in the world. Their shop is now Hin Cheong's Chinese takeaway, while the building with the buff bricks is in use as a Somali community centre.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 19 Aug 2008
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Houses on Ida Street, South Bromley
Image: © Ian S
Taken: 1 Mar 2014
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Poplar: Follett Street, E14 (2)
Many of the buildings that existed in Poplar at the start of the Second World War were either damaged during the Blitz, or else had to be demolished after the war in order to undertake the essential complete redevelopment of the area. Just occasionally some pockets of pre-war buildings remain, cheek by jowl, with more modern buildings, as here in Follett Street.
Firstly on the right is a building dating from 1899. The cross in the date tablet suggests that this is ecclesiastical in origin, and probably associated with
Image which is opposite. Secondly and beyond it is one of the few surviving ordinary Victorian residential properties, that must have been typical of a lot in the area. Beyond that the street reverts to one of the usual tedious and anonymous small blocks of flats.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 19 Aug 2008
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Brownfield Street, South Bromley
Image: © Ian S
Taken: 1 Mar 2014
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Ida Street, South Brromley
Image: © Ian S
Taken: 1 Mar 2014
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Flats on St Leonards Road, E14
Image: © Danny P Robinson
Taken: 11 Jul 2009
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Balfron Tower, E14
From this side of the block you can look down on the busy A12/A13 junction as the traffic incessantly pours out of the Blackwall Tunnel.
Image: © Danny P Robinson
Taken: 11 Jul 2009
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Poplar housing
Housing in Poplar, less than a mile from Canary Wharf.
Image: © Malc McDonald
Taken: 17 Apr 2010
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Poplar Convenience Store, East India Dock Road
Image: © Ian S
Taken: 1 Mar 2014
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