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St Katharine’s, Tower Hamlets A revi­talised part of the former London docks, located between Wapping and the Tower In 1147 Queen Matilda estab­lished a church-cum-hospital that…

Stepney, Tower Hamlets Once the capital of the East End, Stepney is now reduced to a collec­tion of flats and terraces wedged between Commer­cial Road…

Hackney Wick, Hackney/Tower Hamlets This hitherto run-down Leaside area, divided from the rest of Hackney by the East Cross Route, is presently exhibiting a flowering…

Langdon Park, Tower Hamlets A conser­va­tion area, open space and Docklands Light Railway station in north-east Poplar Well into the first half of the 19th…

Poplar, Tower Hamlets A stone’s throw from the top of Canary Wharf’s towers, Poplar is a histor­i­cally poor East End district where regen­er­a­tion projects continue…

Isle of Dogs, Tower Hamlets An 800-acre tongue of land jutting into the Thames opposite Deptford and Greenwich, now dominated by the gleaming towers of…

…building in the Square Mile to break the 200-metre barrier since Tower 42 (the NatWest Tower). In its early days it was sometimes known as…

Traitor’s Gate   Traitor’s (or Traitors’) Gate was a watergate – orig­i­nally simply called the Water Gate – beneath St Thomas’s Tower at the Tower…