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

Location of Upper North Street School (now MayFlower) It escaped bombing in WWII but was hit in WWI in 1917 with the loss of many children.

December 8, 1940, Destruction of St Mary and St Joseph Church: Opened in September 1856 on Gate Street (which later became part of Canton Street), the church was a striking Kentish rag-stone cruciform building designed by William Wilkinson Wardell. It was highly regarded as one of the finest Catholic churches in London. The original Catholic church and its adjoining presbytery on Canton Street in Poplar were destroyed by a direct hit during the bombing. The parish was forced to worship in the nearby Holy Child School for 14 years. A new, distinctively modern church designed by Adrian Gilbert Scott was constructed between 1951 and 1954 to replace the destroyed 1856 building.

Stainsby Tavern No 49 The public house historically located on the corner of East India Dock Road and Stainsby Road (Later this part of the road was added to Canton Street ) Built in 1863 and cost £2884, it sustained bomb damage in 1941 but continued in business till 1975 when it closed and was demolished 1982/5.

Hope Cottage 59 Canton Street, my grandparents home. My grandfather was a silk merchant and bought the property outright in 1930 when married. They bought up their family here, my mum the third child, and remained at the house until a compulsory purchase order finally arrived in 1970. They were the last residents to leave Canton Street.

Howrah House at 83 East India Dock Road which was a convent run by the Faithful Companions of Jesus. It was essentially a Girls School, although boys were admitted occasionally and there is evidence that Alfred Hitchcock spent some time there. The house was previously the residence of shipping magnate, Duncan Dunbar who owned the Dunbar Wharf in Limehouse.

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