EAW000646 ENGLAND (1946). The bomb damaged residential area at Bow Common, Poplar, from the south-west, 1946

The site of the original Trinity Chapel on East India Dock Road. Completely destroyed by a flying bomb in 1944.

Bow Creek

Three Mills Island

All Hallows Church, Bow

Poplar Town Hall, 1870-1938

Bow Locks

St Saviour's Church

Saint Gabriel Church

Queen Victoria Seamen's Rest, est. 1843

Board of Trade Offices

George Green School

St Matthias Church

Langdon Park School

Spratt's Dog Biscuit Factory

Burdett Estate

Air Raid Shelter, Fawe Street.

St Michael and All Angels Church

Emergency housing known as Pre-fabs. They were meant to last for 15 years, but many were still being lived well into the sixties.

A.T. Clarke (formerly Gower) "The Oil Shop" at 70 Upper North Street. S.E. Godden was the Manager from 1946 until its compulsory purchase in 1958.

The Pigott Arms Public House. Meeting place of the clan!

Commercial Road, 30/09/2014

Limehouse Town Hall, 30/09/2014

St. Anne's Church, Limehouse, 30/09/2014

Bow Creek from East India Dock Road, 17/02/2015. Looking north west.

All Saints Church, Newby Place, 17/02/2015

Devons Road Bow MPD 1D Coaling Tower.

Bromley Hall Dates back to Tudor times

214 Brunswick Road

No 9 Woodstock Terrace. My grandparents lived here until one morning when the grandfather sat on a chair it collapsed through the floorboards. Poplar Borough Council, the landlords, condemned the house and rehoused them to Currie House. Always referred to has Pneumonia Mansions by my Nan as the place was freezing in the winter months.

Poplar Baths

Nissen-type huts. Temporary housing?

Poplar Park

Mrs Kings

Mayflower School

Horse & Carts

Morant Street near Lower North Street

Oriental Street

Bombed out remains of St Stephen's Church

Morant Street having suffered much damage

Langley House, a home for Orphans

Hippodrome on corner of Stainsby Road

National Bank on East India Dock Road

Limehouse Cut