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 was lost for a decade or more.
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. A now disused sports centre, ironically called ''The Workhouse'' 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).
The
Metropolitan Borough Of Poplar was the location, in
1921 , of the
Poplar Rates Rebellion , led by
George Lansbury . 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 . The same era also saw the construction of the
Robin Hood Gardens housing complex (overlooking the northern portal of the
Blackwall Tunnel ) - designed by
Architect s
Peter And Alison Smithson - and the similarly
Modernist Balfron Tower ,
Carradale House and
Glenkerry House (to the north) - designed by
Ernő Goldfinger . Other notable buildings in Poplar include
Poplar Baths , finally closed in 1988, which local campaigners hope to get redeveloped.
Nearest places:
Local
Docklands Light Railway (DLR) stations are:
