Poplar is an area of the East End of London in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Poplar is about 5.5 miles (8.9 km) east of Charing Cross.
During the development of the Isle of Dogs the street signs pointed to the new development (by the LDDC), and Poplar 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 B...
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Poplar is an area of the East End of London in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Poplar is about 5.5 miles (8.9 km) east of Charing Cross.
During the development of the Isle of Dogs the street signs pointed to the new development (by the LDDC), and Poplar 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 recently re-opened sports centre 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).
On 13 June 1917, German Gotha G bombers carried out the deadliest German raid on London during World War I. One of the bombs fell on a nursery school in Poplar, causing the death of forty-six children - a tragedy which shocked the British public at the time .
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