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George V and Queen Mary during their visit to Limehouse Town Hall on 25 May 1935 TUM image id: 1684942537 Licence:	View of West India Docks from the south east in 1840. This was an age when the British Navy ruled the waves and goods were being shipped to and from London from America, India and Africa. West India Quay was given the name because ships landed here from the Caribbean carrying sugar produced on the plantations of Jamaica by slaves TUM image id: 1685112906 Licence:	The Grapes (1969) Founded in 1583 and mentioned in Dickens ’Our Mutual Friend’ TUM image id: 1671385760 Licence: CC BY 2.0	1 Cabot Square Credit: Jack8080 TUM image id: 1481482264 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Burdett Road by Baggally Street (1906) TUM image id: 1622500053 Licence:
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 Quadrangle Stores have now been turned into the Cannon Workshops (2020) Credit: Wiki Commons/Hjamesberglen TUM image id: 1685543386 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Limehouse Barge-Builders (Narrow Street from the river). This painting can be seen in the South Shields Museum and Art Gallery. Credit: Charles Napier Hemy (1841-1917) TUM image id: 1620207534 Licence:	Chinatown, Limehouse (1930s) TUM image id: 1685034358 Licence:	Pennyfields, Poplar (around 1900) TUM image id: 1605021763 Licence: CC BY 2.0
The ’Queen’ beerhouse at 128 Rhodeswell Road. Limehouse (1897). Beerhouses weren’t licenced to sell wines and spirits - only beer. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1615402335 Licence:	Children wait outside a hall in Salmon Lane in the East End for free meals (1912) Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images TUM image id: 1685032383 Licence:	’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:	Upper North Street, East India Dock Road E14, c1910. Credit: Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives TUM image id: 1721222802 Licence: