Poplar, London

Poplar is an area of the East End of London in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. During the development of the Isle of Dogs the street signs pointed to the new development (by the LDDC), and Poplar was lost for a decade or more.

Related Topics:
East End of London - London Borough of Tower Hamlets - Isle of Dogs - LDDC

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St Matthias Old Church is located on Poplar High Street, opposite Tower Hamlets College. It is next to Poplar Town Hall - which has mosaic detail - and Poplar Bowls Club, which is part of Poplar Recreation Ground.

Related Topics:
St Matthias Old Church - Tower Hamlets College - Mosaic

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A sports centre stands on the site of Poplar workhouse, where local politician Will Crooks spent some of his earliest years (a nearby council housing estate is named after him).

Related Topics:
Workhouse - Will Crooks

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Poplar was the location, in 1921, of the Poplar Rates Rebellion, led by George Lansbury.

Related Topics:
1921 - Poplar Rates Rebellion - George Lansbury

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As part of the 1951 Festival of Britain, a new council housing estate was built to the north of the East India Dock Road and named the Lansbury Estate after George Lansbury. This estate includes Chrisp Street Market, which was greatly commended by Lewis Mumford.

Related Topics:
1951 - Festival of Britain - East India Dock Road - Lansbury Estate - George Lansbury - Chrisp Street Market - Lewis Mumford

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The same era also saw the construction of the Robin Hood Gardens housing complex (overlooking the northern portal of the Blackwall Tunnel) - designed by architects Peter and Alison Smithson - and the similarly Modernist Balfron Tower, Carradale House and Glenkerry House (to the north) - designed by Ernö Goldfinger.

Related Topics:
Robin Hood Gardens - Blackwall Tunnel - Architect - Peter and Alison Smithson - Modernist - Balfron Tower - Carradale House - Glenkerry House - Ernö Goldfinger

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Other notable buildings in Poplar include Telehouse Docklands.

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Nearest places:

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• Isle of Dogs
• Limehouse
• Stepney
• Canning Town
• Bow

Local Docklands Light Railway (DLR) stations are:

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• All Saints
• Blackwall
• East India
• Poplar (near the head office of the DLR)
• West India Quay
• Westferry