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Parish church of St Mary with Holy Trinity, Bow Road Credit: Gordon Joly TUM image id: 1585748215 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Poplar Baths (2005) Credit: Gordon Joly TUM image id: 1582639714 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Burdett Road by Baggally Street (1906) TUM image id: 1622500053 Licence:	’Old Clo’ Women on Chrisp Street: Ashkenazi Jewish women working with shoddy and other old cloth ply their trade in Poplar Credit: ’KY’ (unknown early twentieth century photographer) TUM image id: 1682603883 Licence:	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	Upper North Street, East India Dock Road E14, c1910. Credit: Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives TUM image id: 1721222802 Licence:	Limehouse Causeway photographed in November 1936. The street was the home to the original Chinatown of London. A combination of bomb damage during the Second World War and later redevelopment means that almost nothing is left of the original buildings. TUM image id: 1620209893 Licence:	Hanbury Place, Ming Street, looking towards Hanbury Buildings (1939) The signs changing King Street into Ming Street are in place. Credit: British History Online TUM image id: 1685552237 Licence:	Castor Street Chinese Laundry, Limehouse While Chinese laundries first began to appear in Britain in Liverpool at the turn of the 20th century, one of the first in London was that run by Hop Lee in Castor Street. The Chinese moved into laundries as they were often denied other business opportunities. They were often successful because they offered a cheaper and better quality service than existing laundries. TUM image id: 1592068664 Licence:
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	Pennyfields together with Limehouse Causeway, was where London’s thousand or so Chinese community lived, and the only place where a Chinese restaurant could be found in London. (c.1920). TUM image id: 1685033375 Licence:	In the 1880s, London’s first Chinatown was established around Limehouse, where the sailors had returned to get away from their cramped shared lodging. Restaurants like this one, in 1946, became more common, and a few streets in the East End acquired Chinese names. Credit: Mirrorpix TUM image id: 1685033845 Licence:

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’Old Clo’ Women on Chrisp Street: Ashkenazi Jewish women working with shoddy and other old cloth ply their trade in Poplar
Credit: ’KY’ (unknown early twentieth century photographer)
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Upper North Street, East India Dock Road E14, c1910.
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