EAW035319 ENGLAND (1951). Ida Street, Chrisp Street and environs, Poplar, 1951. This image has been produced from a print.

St Saviours School, Alton Street Poplar

LCC Daimler ambulance

77 Willis Street

The New Pavillion Cinema when this photo was taken. When I went here the name outside was The Essoldo but always knew it as the "Pav". Only just found out why from the site below. http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/26021

This area was later to become Chrisp Street market and the stalls traded on this square. Since been changed but is generally much the same today

Hay Currie secondary school. Still exists today but the name has been changed to Langdon Park school.

Cotton Street.

Susan Lawrence primary school.

Willis Street. My father was born in one of these houses in 1928. Number 77 I believe. Eleven people in two rooms until re-housed early 1939.

St Leonards Road

Poplar Baths. Built 1932-34 and closed in 1988. Still exists and is a Grade II listed building. Must have kept thousands of kids off the street and clean in its time!

All Saints Poplar

Site of the original Poplar Station. Now the All Saints stop on the Docklands Light Railway.

Poplar Police Station. The following description has been taken from the web. Police Station at Nos 193–195 (demolished). About 1861 stables at No. 193 were taken for use by the Metropolitan Police and in 1867–8 these and the house of the builder John Jeffrey at No. 195 were adapted for use as a police station by Lathey Brothers of Battersea Park at a tendered price of £1,193 to designs by T. C. Sorby, architect. This was under lease from the freeholder until the police bought the freehold in 1892. In 1897–8 the site was rebuilt for the Metropolitan Police by Willmott & Sons of Hitchin at a tendered price of £9,985. This was a good example of the work of the police architect, John Dixon Butler, large-scaled but well detailed, big but not intimidating — qualities which the Arts-and-Crafts style and materials were well fitted to express. It was of three and four storeys, the latter rising to a straight-sided gable. The building was of brick, banded with stone, the main door marked by a large projecting shell-hood, the windowopenings of the lower two storeys emphatically mullioned-and-transomed in stone, and the flues grouped in two deep chimneystacks. The station was closed in 1971 and subsequently demolished, being replaced by a police office in Market Way.

Chrisp Street with the market stalls out.

Ida Street. All the street above the pin was developed with new housing after this image was taken. The small section below the pin still exists although there is no access from East India Dock Road