However, shoppers at rival supermarkets including Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s have claimed delivery slots are "running out" following the start of the new lockdown. Christine Coleman and brothers outside the entrance to Cressall House later in the decade. The scarcity of places to live was reflected in the population figures: in 1950 the population of the Isle of Dogs was under 10,000, less than half its size before the start of WWII (and back to the same size it was in the 1860s, almost a century before). A foundation stone in the wall of 12 Castalia Square marks the commencement of the estate. NEAREST STATIONS Distances are straight line measurements from the centre of the postcode. The Sun is waiting for clarification about how often its equipment is currently cleaned. Automatic counting technology has been installed in 100 of the busiest Asda stores. This section was also named Commercial Road, and it was not until 1828 that it received the name, West India Dock Road. Most residents of Greater London are very proud of their capital and the multiculturalism of the city. Open map Street View. Close to Asda, Crossharbour DLR station ( opposite ). Charlie Brown’s and The Blue Posts (which by this time had been renamed The Buccaneer). The Kennington Lane gas-holder of the Phoenix Gas Co. was an interesting example of the firm’s boldness and pioneering skill in the construction of large holders. North Greenwich Railway Station. The nifty service means customers can wait in their car instead of queuing outside if the shop is busy. Photo: PLA Collection. George Green’s Youth Club. The supermarket will increase the number of home delivery slots to 900,000 per week by the start of April. Outside Akbar House. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. Photo by Rosemary Freeman, courtesy of her son John. One of these was Samuel Cutler & Sons whose Providence Iron Works were opposite St Edmund’s School in Westferry Road (they also had a few buildings on the other side of the road, adjacent to the school). 1976. Prior to that washing consisted of simply jumping into a barrel of cold water. 16 to 52, was a row of shops and businesses. Westferry Road (Strafford Street on left). Much of the former site of the Londoner is surrounded by a huge hoarding meant to represent a building, complete with an advertising screen. GB. With the exception of a couple of houses in the middle of the terrace, they were typical two-up two-down cottages. Is the shop just visible on the right of the following photo the same place? It was partly rebuilt by the Great Eastern Railway in 1896. Industrial Archaeology News Issue 172. Samuel Cutler Sr. opened his original Providence Iron Works in the 1850s on the former site of the Poplar Gas Light Company diagonally opposite Mellish Street. 1980s construction of the first Island Gardens DLR station. Photo: britainfromabove.org.uk, March 1941. 1900. Today, apartments and the rowing club are on the site. Maria Street diagonally from bottom left, with Janet Street and St Hubert’s House in the background. But, in the end, Keith scouted the path and found a nice piece of wall which could barely be closer to the location of the WWII air raid shelter….just a couple of yards away. This clip has some great scenes of the interior of the restaurant, West India Dock Road and Garford Street. Left of the Sailor’s Palace were numbers 2-12 West India Dock Road, a row of shops (including in the 1960s one of the many Chinese restaurants in the area). Customer touch points - such as fridge and freezer handles and checkout areas - will have a "protective" layer of antimicrobial coating to keep shoppers safe. London E14 3BT. St Luke’s School foundation stone, now mounted on a modern wall in Westferry Road close to the site of the school. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. The company went into liquidation in 1909. In the photo, the firemen are cooling down barrels of collodion cotton and boxes of paint – inflammable materials that really ought to have been stored more securely and not in the open behind housing. The next night my father decided we must risk our own home, as there were at least 50 firemen using the school hall when they had to take a rest and it didn’t seem very safe anyway. Keen to do some DIY? Contemporary depiction of the Maconochie Brothers. 1920s. The derelict space on the left is the former Horse Shoe Yard. His first recorded non-grazing venture was when he was in his late 30s. During WWII, houses on the west side of Ferry Street were seriously damaged, and houses at the corner of Manchester Road and Ferry Street (close to the railway arches) were completely destroyed. The memorial to the victims of the bombing at Cubitt Town School in the night of 18th/19th September 1940 is to the right of entrance. Supermarkets are allowed to stay open as they're deemed essential for shoppers. 1977. Later image of The Union (Courtesy of Kathy Cook). The bridge option emerged as favourite, the tunnel being too expensive for the PLA and the cablecar unpopular with the Council. Michigan House, just south of the lock, was built between 1958 and 1960. All together, the following were victims of the bombing of Cubitt Town School, all but one of whom was an emergency worker : c1949. They later developed a large business as general constructional engineers. He is said to have given away large sums in aid of the 1912 dockers’ strike, and he was made honorary treasurer of the Stevedores’ Union. During the so-called ‘phoney war’ of 1939, the government was even reluctant to allow use of tube stations as shelters, as they were genuinely worried that Londoners would move underground and not want to come back up to the surface. As was the case with Commercial Road, West India Dock Road was operated as a toll road by the dock company who also recovered some of its road-construction costs by selling parcels of land along the road. In his email, he remarked, “an elderly gentleman, doffed his hat when he passed. I looked around at the other men and most of them looked shocked and a bit sick; we had usually found bodies mutilated and they were usually lifted out by hands and feet and quickly got away. Behind them, on the left, the bomb-damaged Island Baths. A high-level bridge would keep the public out of the docks and allow barges to pass, opening only for ships. Photo: Island History Trust. Son Richard went on to become the landlord of the Lord Nelson public house. Fire Station. Francis Chichester arriving at Greenwich on the day of his knighting. I also found an old 18th or 19th century clay pipe on the site, which amazed me no end. God is good. The government was also concerned that the large-scale construction of underground shelters (as was happening in Berlin) would serve only to cause unnecessary panic. I laid her on the stretcher. Shortly before its closure. Bomb damage led to the clearance of the adjoining houses along the north and east sides of the yard and their sites were incorporated into it. I can imagine there was some optimism amongst Islanders at the time; and if you were a kid then, so many bomb sites to play on! 1960s. The DLR station is in the same vicinity. Photo: George Warren / Island History Trust. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. Dam at Millwall Dock entrance lock. “When he returned, he told my mother that my father had been injured. Shortly after the bombing, some rowing boat owners offered to transport people over the Thames at 2/- per passenger. 1845. William Henry also leased a number of houses on the south side of Strafford Street (Nos. Photo: Island History Trust. More than reason enough to investigate further…. The incident had confirmed the government’s concerns about large public shelters, especially those that were not purpose-built. 79 Alpha Road. Additionally, Johnson Street also became part of Ferry Street. Building work on St John’s Estate started early in the year. The following photo shows Crews Street. 1970s. Although they look less than sturdy, Anderson shelters turned out to be extremely strong and effective when covered in earth as prescribed. By now I am feeling a bit angry at the prospect of these two girls being lugged by their arms and legs so I got down beside them. Part of the St John’s Estate in the 1950s. The works closed in the early 1960s – when the firm relocated to Telford – and the whole site had been cleared by the mid-1980s. Demolition of Dunbar House. Circa 1800. Photo: Island History Trust, George Green’s Playing Fields in Millwall Park. In 1857, demonstrating that he was a man of standing in the community, Henry contributed to the endowment fund for the recently-opened Christ Church, where he was one of the two churchwardens (see article here). 8 min walk to Canary Wharf tube station. Work started on Cressall House in Tiller Road with the block opening a year later. But Asda says more of these stations have now been installed at the front of all 631 stores. I cooled down a bit after I had smoked a cigarette. 27-29 is Limehouse Police Station, built in 1940 on the site of an earlier police station. ‘Could I see your mother?’ he asked. Survey of London: Government restrictions on public spending stopped widespread refurbishment and modernization of the existing housing stock for a time, despite the increasing age of many of the dwellings and the defects of a significant number of the more modern buildings. Significant numbers of deaths and casualties were caused in the early months by glass blown in by explosions that might even be hundreds of yards away. My sister Karen and her then very young daughter Karly lived in this flat for a period in the 1980s. Wherrymen are ferrying passengers across the river to Greenwich, while others (and passengers) are waiting on the Marsh Wall path. They could not withstand a direct hit (nor could even a concrete shelter), but they were very effective at withstanding blasts and the force of buildings, walls or other heavy objects collapsing onto them. The Ferry House in the 1890s (estimate), with Factory Place on the left. Looking towards Manchester Road from close to the Ferry House. Barnsley has the second-highest rate, down from 183.1 to 174.2, with 430 new cases. By the mid-1970s, there was virtually no industry left in Ferry Street. By the way, all photos of Cutler’s workers in this article are courtesy of the Island History Trust collection (https://www.islandhistory.co.uk/). The naming ceremony was held on 16th July 2009, after which family members went to Tower Hamlets Cemetery to lay a wreath at the civilian memorial (see below). 24 Hour Asda Supermarket is a 10 min walk away, as well as local shops and amenities. Or if you send a text, you’ll get a reply when it’s your turn to go inside. What of the many gas holders built by Samuel Cutlers & Sons? He and his first wife Catherine had six children (birth years are approximate): William Henry also became a farmer once he was old enough, but made his money in market gardening (in the late 1800s he had a 40 acre market garden north of Chapel House Street), employing “10 men, 6 women and 4 boys”. The restaurant featured in an epsiode of the 1980s TV series, Prospects, in which the main characters are tempted to take advantage when the staff bundle out of the building and into the street in order to chase a group of customers who had done a runner. Henry’s wife Catherine died in 1852 at the age of 49, and he remarried in 1855 to widow Sarah Ratcliff (néé Clayton) whose father Thomas Clayton was also a farmer. It seemed to me to be a forgotten tragedy. At noon on Saturday 5th July 2014, an informal ceremony took place to mark the unveiling of a plaque dedicated to the memory of the victims of the WWII Bullivant’s Wharf tragedy. Unfortunately they were not to be used until 1945 as the government prohibited the storing of rowing boats on or near the River Thames. Survey of London: A local man, born in 1869, recalled this ground producing cabbages and mangolds for the London markets. Westferry Road was eventually extended… past Windward House and past Jamaica House, to meet West India Dock Road opposite the Oporto Tavern. More than a news digest – it’s an original take on world news as it happens. Noisy, vibrant and truly multicultural, London is a megalopolis of people, ideas and frenetic energy. Bradshaw, and later his son [probably Henry Junior, who later went on to run various pubs in the West End, near Piccadilly], ran the public house for some years. 1947. by 15ft 5in. Photo: Gary O’Keefe. By some soldiers it was regarded as a welcome change from bully-beef.’ (‘The Long Trail. Survey of London: In 1817 the area now largely covered by Cahir Street, Harbinger Road (British Street until 1929) and Hesperus Crescent was three meadows and a patch of swamp. 16 Malabar Street. Further east, and visible in the following photo, was the Railway Tavern, more commonly referred to as Charlie Brown’s (which became its formal name later). The bombers came in the darkness of the black-out. Window tape, heavy curtains and brick blast walls proved to provide some protection against this threat. Despite the fact that the West India Docks had been operating for almost three decades, and the west side of the Island was becoming increasingly built up, this part of the Island retained its rural character until the middle of the 19th century when the development of Cubitt Town commenced. This was a couple of years before the company secured a lucrative contract to supply tinned meat and vegetable stew to British troops fighting in the Boer War (1899-1902). But with the opening of the LCC’s free foot tunnel in August 1901 the service ceased to be viable and the pier was dismantled soon afterwards. 1910. Both families had their own servant, and it is evident that they were well off by Island standards. Early 1990s (estimate). 88 (right) and higher (left). It was redeveloped in the early 1990s as part of the Masthouse Terrace housing scheme. The London Tavern on the corner of Glengall Grove and Manchester Road lost its top floors during WWII, and the remains were demolished in 1954. Late 1940s. Asda will double the hours of its existing safety marshals to help shoppers with any Covid-related queries. The brothers’ first business was a fish-curing factory in Lowestoft, started in 1873. Same view as previous photo but showing recently constructed flats on the left (Fraser Court). Neither route – due to narrow roads and tight corners – was suitable for the heavy traffic which included many lorries and buses. The same technology, known as Bio Master X shield, is already used to kill bacteria and viruses in the NHS Nightingale Excel hospital. It became the Buccaneer shortly before its demolition in 1987–8. Much of this block was destroyed by bombing during WWII, and what remained was cleared on the creation of the junction with the newly-extended West Ferry Road in the 1950s. This led to the establishment of the Strangers’ Home for Asiatics, Africans and South Sea Islanders (to give it its full name). Soldiers’ Songs and Slang 1914-18′, Sphere Books, 1969, p.119). 1970s. Within minutes we had located the spot they were likely to be, and got two people out, but I don’t think they were alive as were working without lights and they were at best unconscious. Just outside the Millwall Inner Dock in Glengall Road (a section that was renamed Tiller Road) was the Capewell Horse Nail works, an American company with its headquarters in Connecticut. Photo is also part of the Island History Trust Collection (https://www.ideastore.co.uk/digital-gallery/view/2250), 1953 Coronation party. There was strong local opposition, however, and so in 1958 the PLA asked Parliament for power to close the route. Girls who worked at Maconochies. Redevelopment around the quays brought increasing traffic to the Millwall Docks in the 1960s, and a rebuilding of the lock was again considered before it was permanently closed in 1967, its east end filled so that the road bridge would not have to be replaced. By the time of the 1862 map, the partnership had been dissolved, and Antonio Armani endeavoured to run the firm alone. “Greenwich from the Isle of Dogs”, Richard Dodd (National Maritime Museum Collection). The trees are very young, so it must be shortly after the flats opened. c1969. St John’s Church, Roserton Street, was damaged during air raids in 1941 and was abandoned and eventually demolished in the 1950s. The Week brings you all you need to know about everything that matters. It appears to have survived WWII, but I’ve not been able to find a photo of it or any information. At the corresponding time you are also invited to observe 2 minutes silence before Keith and Anne Woods lay flowers at the plaque on behalf of the Woods family, Con Maloney and Brian Smith will then lay a wreath on behalf of Friends of Island History Trust, to remember all those affected by the bombing. Initially, their unofficial ‘club house’ was the Princess of Wales public house. Charles Brown Jr. became landlord of the Blue Posts pub across the road (more about this pub below). Tower Hamlets Councillor Andrew Wood was present, as was some weird looking bloke wearing a back to front hat (you know who you are ). Map: Mick Lemmerman. The guns and the planes and the bombs. 1960. In 2014, when I wrote the first article, I had heard of this terrible incident, but I did not know anything about it. London Metropolitan Archives. In 1871, 40 West India Dock Road was owned by the Kirkaldys – a father and sons business consisting of plumbers, painters and marine engineers. Photo: PLA / Museum of London. Cyclo Motors recovery vehicle in Ferry Street, just left of the Ideal Bar. Production of Pan Yan Pickle ceased in 2000 due to falling sales. To the left of the shops, and visible in the previous photo was 14 West India Dock Road, originally known as the German Sailors’ Home (this building also still exists). Photo: Island History Trust, Running down Glengall Grove towards Manchester Road. Late 1800s. Morton’s, one the Island’s largest employers for many decades had been taken over in 1945 by the Beecham Group who moved the operations to Lowestoft. It is my personal opinion that the inventor brought to his task an imperfect knowledge of cookery and a perverted imagination. A large number of seamens’ hostels were built locally, often run by missionary societies who mostly wanted to provide a more wholesome alternative to other lodgings and tempations in the area. The ceremonial opening of the new school was on 21st March 1938. Built on the former Northumberland Wharf, the launching site of HMS Northumberland, built by the Millwall Iron Works. The firm moved to Shropshire in the mid-1900s and the works were taken over by Alexander Dunbar, who operated there from 1911 to 1929. Pharmacy Gift Cards Asda Mobile Personal Loans Pet Insurance Asda Opticians Asda Tyres toyou Parcel Service. The following photo shows a gentlemen’s outfitters at an unidentified location in West India Dock Road. In September 1940 I lived where I was born, on the Isle of Dogs. 45 West India Dock Road is on the left. The caravan park also puts you within easy reach of Glen Affric for unforgettably scenic walks - you'll see its magnificent landscapes best on foot and maybe even spot some deer. Stewart Street. Grant’s were also nautical outfitters in the past, but I think that that part of their business was very insignificant by the time the following photo was taken. The Lord Nelson. Again, various groups have started an action to have them saved (and if you agree, you can sign their petition here: https://www.change.org/p/tower-hamlets-strategic-developement-committee-petition-to-tower-hamlets-council-objecting-to-st-william-homes-planning-application). Reg Beer will also be there to represent those injured, including his Brother in Law Reginald Crouch and Cllr Peter Golds will represent today’s residents of the Isle of Dogs. 16 – The Alma. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. You can go on to Google Street View and have a look around, but this ‘Then and Now’ image sums if up for me. I don’t know how many we recovered, our relief came on at 8.00 a.m., but we carried on until nearly ten, when a squad from the other end of Poplar came to help. The other two are from Canning Town. Even in 1827 north of the road was not yet developed. The premises of Cubitt Town School are now occupied by St. Luke’s School. Early 1930s. West India Dock Road in the post-WWII ruins of Poplar. As the raid began, the centre of the building took a direct hit. Manchester Road in the 1950s.In the middle on the left is Stebondale Street. Bullivant’s in the 1930s. Dogs A raw dog food company is recruiting ten people to look at pictures of pups in the return for £20 an hour. Photo: Mick Lemmerman. Thanks also to the landlord and staff of the George for their hospitality. Severe damage was caused by bombing in the Second World War. The business was a great success and it expanded to include food processing, packaging and canning, and they were one of the largest employers in the town. It is based on the electoral register and – because not everybody registered to vote and not everybody reported a change of address on time – it is not necessarily complete or accurate. Photo: Island History Trust. The Stronghold Works at Bullivant’s Wharf received a direct hit, as mentioned by rescue worker Bill Regan in his diary entry for 20th March 1941, when he was stationed at the emergency services depot in Millwall Central School, Janet Street (quote from Heavy Rescue Squad Work on the Isle of Dogs – Bill Regan’s Diary from the Second World War, by Ann Regan-Atherton): Nothing of great moment until now. Poet Laureate, John Betjeman, was also impressed, writing in 1956: Street layouts also remained pretty much unchanged at first, and pre-WWII Island communities could re-establish themselves. From c1951 it was occupied by the Burdell Engineering Company, which added a number of small buildings and a single-storey shed on the Manchester Road frontage. Photo: http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk. Click for full-sized version. 2008. Photo: Mick Lemmerman, 1970s. View from more or less the same place in 1990. It was thirty years in advance of Barnes Wallis coining the term ‘geodesic’ for these lightweight structures for airships and aircraft and fifty years ahead of Buckminster Fuller’s trendy geodesic domes. From 1950, major new housing schemes started in Poplar, with virtually all homes being in the form of council flats. In the background are the sheds of the Transporter Yard in the Mudchute, where ASDA now stands. The rise in popularity of motorized bus transport in the early twentieth century led also to a drop in passengers on the Millwall Extension line, to such an extent that the line was closed in 1926. (I’m a total magpie, I wonder if I’ve still got it somewhere?). The coat of arms on the side of the building is that of Stepney Borough Council. Henry’s is a proper ‘local boy does good’ story. Here are the latest supermarket lockdown rules for Asda, Aldi, Lidl, Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and M&S. Or, to put it another way, much has been demolished thanks to the creation of the Limehouse Link road and tunnel. Mudchute Park and Farm is a large urban park and farm in Cubitt Town on the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, just south of Canary Wharf.It is a Local Nature Reserve and a Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation.. Delivery fees can cost up to £3.99, while service fees are typically 10% of our order. I have spent most of my life as a nurse. After much fundraising and negotiation the money was raised and work on the existing clubhouse begun. Photo: David Lloyd, 1956. Dockers waiting for the call-on in East Ferry Road, close to The George. The boathouse with a bar, training tank, function hall and hot running water eventually opened in September 1970. 1870s (estimated). A Chinese community grew around the Home and the 1881 census recorded that of the 22 people who lived there, eleven were born in China, six in India or Sri Lanka, two in Arabia, two in Singapore and one in the Kru Coast of Africa. The 1960s photo (above) of the former North Greenwich Railway Station shows the Ideal Bar, a café which had a long history at the site, probably going back to when the station was still operational. Joyce Jacobs’ recollections of the evening (from http://www.islandhistory.org.uk): We had our blankets and our kettle and all the things you took up there and we were going out the front door when it was really banging overhead. My most vivid memory is removing hundreds and hundreds of nails from the wooden beams that had been recovered from the old factory buildings. Photo: Sophia Pettman. The Starch House was thereafter renamed (or rebuilt as) the Ferry House, occupied by W. Hart and probably used as a place of refreshment and shelter for ferry passengers until the building of the present Ferry House public house. The rear of this row of cottages is shown on the right of the following photo of Britannia Dry Dock. The following photo shows the cleared area. Asda says this will allow shoppers to socially distance. Some materials from the previous buildings were incorporated in the houses. Fireman Arthur Sharpe, who was on duty inside the School, recorded his memory of a dull thud and a bright flash, the crash of falling masonry and a desperate rush for the exits, then a roll-call and the missing girls, of trying to climb the staircase to the women’s rest-room, but it was ready to come down at any moment and the centre of the school had been flattened. Circa 1960. The leases for the land on both sides of Wharf Road remained in the hands of the (heirs of) the stone merchant until 1890 when they were taken over by engineering firm John Fraser & Son who set up their Millwall Boiler Works there. Named ‘Stronghold Works’, it was selected as the site for a public shelter due to its strength. 1934. 1970s. Nevertheless, it was eventually enclosed and used as a scrap-yard. Photo: Island History Trust. Kemp was automatically sentenced to hang, but this was later commuted to life imprisonment. Cold running water was added in 1949. The short estate street is named Omega Close, for reasons which escape me. They were succeeded by a series of ships chandlers. Everyone was so pleased that the victims were finally getting a memorial, and there was plenty of reminiscing among the many old Islanders who were present (including plenty from the Island History Trust), some of whom had lost family or friends in the bombing, and some of whom only just missed being in the shelter themselves at the time. Year unknown. Photo: Island History Trust, In 1952, the British Antarctic Expedition’s ship, Theron, was loaded with supplies in Millwall Docks before departing on a three-year voyage. The wharf was then incorporated into the premises to the east until 1906, when it was taken by James Livingstone & Son as a metal-wharf, known as the Millwall Iron Works. The building then had a number of owners before it was demolished in 1987-8 for road improvements: 1905. Photo: Mike Seaborne, 1980s. Later Bill Regan discovered that the girls’ names had been Violet Pengelly and Joan Bartlett – who had the same first names as his own two daughters who were then away on evacuation. Survey of London: The first place of worship built on the Isle of Dogs since the medieval chapel of St Mary, this was erected in 1817 by a congregation which had been meeting since 1812, at first in a house on the Mill Wall belonging to John Howard, a mast- and block-maker. There is little or nothing left to remind us of the colourful history of the road. More recently, housing has been built around the edges of the site of Dunbar House. It names 41 victims, and not 44 as mentioned in the WWII report; either the report was incorrect, or the names of all victims were not established. Approximately the site short Estate Street is named Omega close, for reasons which escape.... 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