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Poplar (1910) TUM image id: 1556886600 Licence:	Poplar Baths (2005) Credit: Gordon Joly TUM image id: 1582639714 Licence: CC BY 2.0	George V and Queen Mary during their visit to Limehouse Town Hall on 25 May 1935 TUM image id: 1684942537 Licence:	Alpha Grove (1962) Alpha Grove (previously Alpha Road) runs from Strafford Street to Tiller Road on the Isle of Dogs. Alpha Grove ran right through to the West India Dock fence dock - its cranes can be seen at the end of the road. When built in the 1800s, Alpha Road followed a section of the old island path, Dolphin Lane. The road running across the view in the photo is Byng Street. TUM image id: 1489324044 Licence:	1 Cabot Square Credit: Jack8080 TUM image id: 1481482264 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Two Men on a Bench is one of two sculptures in Canary Wharf by Giles Penny. Credit: www.walkmeblog.com TUM image id: 1685539374 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The River Thames looking west as photographed from the restaurant at One Canada Place (2018) Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1686915908 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Quadrangle Stores have now been turned into the Cannon Workshops (2020) Credit: Wiki Commons/Hjamesberglen TUM image id: 1685543386 Licence: CC BY 2.0	East India Road, Poplar It takes it name from the former East India Docks and its route was constructed between 1806 and 1812 as a branch of the Commercial Road. The road begins in the west at Burdett Road and continues to the River Lea bridge in the east in Canning Town. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1562851965 Licence:	Chinatown, Limehouse (1930s) TUM image id: 1685034358 Licence:
Pennyfields, Poplar (around 1900) TUM image id: 1605021763 Licence: CC BY 2.0	’Blood Alley’ in the West India Docks, circa 1930. This photograph was taken at the North Quay shows a gang of dockers trucking bags of sugar beneath an awning of washed sacks that are hung out for drying at. ‘Blood Alley’ was the nickname given to roadway between the transit sheds and sugar warehouses because handling the sacks of sticky West Indian sugar badly chafed and cracked the dockers’ skin. This quay is now home to the Museum of London Docklands Credit: PLA collection/Museum of London TUM image id: 1685546420 Licence:	91-97 Three Colt Street, Limehouse (1923) Assuming this was photographed just before demolition as the supporting prop looks dodgy. The greengrocer is using a pram as a market stall. Credit: English Heritage TUM image id: 1623947100 Licence:	Two unidentified girls, with tobacconist in the background on Emmett Street, Limehouse (1952) Credit: Tate Britain/Nigel Henderson TUM image id: 1651158491 Licence:	Children playing street cricket in Alpha Road, Millwall in August 1938. A ship - the Union Castle line “Dunbar Castle” can be seen in the background. The photo was taken close to its corner with Manilla Street. In the background, behind the dock fence are the West India Docks. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images TUM image id: 1685036340 Licence: