Sprattâ€™s Complex, E14

Sprattâ€™s Complex is a housing development in Poplar.

The former pet food factory was converted into approximately 150 live-work units beginning in 1985. This was one of the first such warehouse conversions in London.

The complex, which once operated as Sprattâ€™s dog biscuit factory, consists of six multi-story warehouses made of reinforced concrete grouped around courtyards.

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

colin Passfield Dora Street, E14 Added: 1 Jan 2021 15:28 GMT	Dora Street, E14 My grandmother was born in 1904 at 34 Dora Street Reply
Giraud Street, E14 Added: 16 Feb 2021 13:41 GMT	Giraud Street I lived in Giraud St in 1938/1939. I lived with my Mother May Lillian Allen & my brother James Allen (Known as Lenny) My name is Tom Allen and was evacuated to Surrey from Giraud St. I am now 90 years of age. Reply

LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

Richard Lake De Laune Street, SE17 Added: 28 Sep 2022 09:37 GMT	Trade Union Official John William Lake snr moved with his family to 22 De Laune Street in 1936. He was the London Branch Secretary for the Street Masons, Paviours and Road Makers Union. He had previously lived in Orange St now Copperfield St Southwark but had been forced to move because the landlord didn’t like him working from home and said it broke his lease. John William snr died in 1940. His son John William Lake jnr also became a stone mason and at the end of World War two he was responsible for the engraving of the dates of WW2 onto the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Reply
Julie Well Walk, NW3 Added: 22 Sep 2022 18:30 GMT	Well Walk, NW3 (1817 - 1818) The home of Benthy, the Postman, with whom poet John Keats and his brother Tom lodged from early 1817 to Dec., 1818. They occupied the first floor up. Here Tom died Dec. 1, 1818. It was next door to the Welles Tavern then called ’The Green Man’." From collected papers and photos re: No. 1 Well Walk at the library of Harvard University. Source: No. 1, Well Walk, Hampstead. \| HOLLIS for Reply
Wedlake Street Baths Added: 4 Sep 2022 15:42 GMT	Superman 2 I worked here in 1977. The scene in the prison laundry in Superman 2 was filmed here. Reply
TUM The Underground Map Added: 27 Aug 2022 10:22 GMT	The Underground Map Michael Faraday successfully demonstrated the first electrical transformer at the Royal Institute, London. Reply
Admin Tower Bridge, SE1 Added: 26 Aug 2022 15:19 GMT	Bus makes a leap A number 78 double-decker bus driven by Albert Gunter was forced to jump an accidentally opening Tower Bridge. He was awarded a Â£10 bonus. Reply
Admin Paddington Added: 26 Aug 2022 12:44 GMT	The world’s first underground train The very first underground train left Paddington on the new Metropolitan Railway bound for Farringdon Street. Reply
Admin Baker Street Added: 26 Aug 2022 12:41 GMT	Baker Street Baker Street station opened on the Metropolitan Railway - the world’s first underground line. Reply
Admin Olympia Added: 26 Aug 2022 12:17 GMT	TV comes to Olympia Over 7000 people queued to see the first high definition television pictures on sets at the Olympia Radio Show. The pictures were transmitted by the BBC from Alexandra Palace, introduced by Leslie Mitchell, their first announcer. Reply

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Langdon Park

Langdon Park is a DLR station in Poplar which opened in 2007.

Langdon Park was originally proposed to be called Carmen Street, but later took the name of the adjacent park.

Construction took just over a year at a cost of Â£10.5 million. The Mayor of London presided over its opening ceremony on 10 December 2007.
The station features three art installations by British artist Kate Davis.

LOCAL PHOTOS

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Bridge Street cafe. Credit: Gill Rickson TUM image id: 1526166930 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Bow Locks, with Bow Creek, beyond, at low tide (2006) Limehouse Cut begins to the right of the locks. Credit: Wiki Commons/Gordon Joly TUM image id: 1642165114 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Poplar Baths (2005) Credit: Gordon Joly TUM image id: 1582639714 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:	Pennyfields, Poplar (around 1900) TUM image id: 1605021763 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Lochnagar Street, looking east towards Islay Wharf Before the coming of the Blackwall Tunnel approach road, there was a road called Brunswick Road from which Lochnagar Street ran and from which this photo was taken. This area of Poplar contains a large number of streets with Scottish names because they were built on an estate which had been bought by the McIntosh family in 1823. The initial letters of local street names were chosen alphabetically - Aberfeldy Street, Ailsa Street, Blair Street, Culloden Street, Dee Street, Ettrick Street, Findhorn Street, Leven Road, Oban Street, Portree Street, Spey Street, Teviot Street, Wyvis Street and Zetland Street. TUM image id: 1562852551 Licence:	Castor Street Chinese Laundry, Limehouse TUM image id: 1592068664 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Rook Street, Poplar decorated with flags, shrines and a banner in preparation for a Catholic procession, September 1914. TUM image id: 1660580248 Licence: CC BY 2.0	East India Dock Gates and the entrance to Blackwall Tunnel (1929). The photograph is taken from the corner of Woolmore Street and Robin Hood Lane. In the background is the Poplar Hospital for Accidents TUM image id: 1620309368 Licence:

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