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St Matthias Old Church is located on Poplar High Street, opposite Tower Hamlets College. It is next to Poplar Town Hall, Poplar Bowls Club and Poplar recreation Ground.
A sports centre 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).
Poplar was the location, in 1921, of the Poplar Rates Rebellion, led by George Lansbury.
As part of the 1951 Festival of Britain, a new council housing estate was built to the north of the East India Dock Road and named the Lansbury Estate after George Lansbury. This estate includes Chrisp Street Market, which was greatly commended by Lewis Mumford.
The same era also saw the construction of the Robin Hood Gardens housing complex (overlooking the northern portal of the Blackwall Tunnel) - designed by architects Peter and Alison Smithson - and the similarly Modernist Balfron Tower and Carradale House (to the north) - designed by Ernö Goldfinger.
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There is a Wiki for the Poplar Area.
http://wiki.poplarconnect.net/bin/view/Connect/WebHome Contributions are sought from local people