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- Thames Portrait – From Westminster to Southend
- Lenanton’s
- Hammond House Photo Album
- Outside Christ Church – a Mainly Pictorial History
- A History of The Arches in Millwall Park
- ‘As the rum burnt, its evaporated alcohol made the firemen tipsy’ – the Rum Quay fire of 1933
- Late 1970s Photos of George Green’s and Area
- Hesperus Crescent
- Millwall Lead Works (aka ‘The Lead’)
- The Writing on the Wall
- Hawkins & Tipson’s Rope Works
- Bill Voisey, the Millwall Footballer from Cubitt Town
- The Isle of Dogs – Kew Gardens Connection
- Cumberland Oil Mills
- Docklands Light Railway Accident
- The Isle of Dogs in the Seventies (Sound On :) )
- Round Glengall
- Morton’s of Millwall (and Cubitt Town)
- Is this a Photo of Saunder’s Ness?
- Men of the Isle of Dogs Killed in Action During WWI (Update: New Grave Photos)
- Folly Wall
- The Chimneys of the Isle of Dogs
- Some Quality Images from Tim Brown’s ‘The East End in Colour 1980-1990’
- Fred. Olsen & Co. and the Millwall Docks
- Where the Other Half Lived: the Isle of Dogs – Blackheath Connection
- A Short History of Glengall Road (which turned out to be longer than I anticipated)
- A Walk Round the Isle of Dogs in 1968 (Then & Now) – Part II, Manchester Road (Mostly)
- A Walk Round the Isle of Dogs in 1968 (Then & Now) – Part I, Westferry Road
- The first battery company in the world was opposite the Tooke Arms!
- Millwall FC in Millwall Park
- Preston’s Road
- Los 7 Puentes de Avellaneda – Made on the Isle of Dogs
- “In Constant Use” – The Unnoticed End of 200 Years of Millwall Industry
- Images of the Isle of Dogs During WWII
- Everything you wanted to know about Alpha Grove but were afraid to ask
- Outside The Nelson
- The Isle of Dogs in Maps
- Millwall House – An Island Secret for 150 Years
- The Millwall Mudlark
- A Brief History of Castalia Square
- The Last Windmill in Millwall
- The Sad Deaths of Heinz Marchlowitz and Richard Bomba
- St. Mildred’s House, Westferry Road
- Off the Track in London – On the Isle of Dogs in 1905
- The Traffic Island Outside Christ Church
- West India Dock Pier: Festival of Britain, Murder and Nico
- The Blue Bridge
- Limehouse Basin. No, not that one.
- Cuba, Tobago and Manilla – Three Old Island Streets
- Unique Images of Canary Wharf from the Late 80s to the Early 90s
- A History of South Cubitt Town
- A Wander Around the Block Near the City Arms
- An Elevated View of the New Docks & Warehouses now constructing on the Isle of Dogs near Limehouse
- The Chapel House Estate
- McDougall’s Millwall
- A Lifetime Behind Bars – Guest Article by Tony Alltoft
- Island Pubs – Then & Now
- The Kingfield Estate
- A Drive Through West India Docks in the 1960s
- The Oldest Photos of the Isle of Dogs (a Selection)
- The Island at Sea
- You say Coldharbour, I say Cold Harbour
- Nellie Frances Cressall
- Island Pubs and Beer Houses
- Where we learned to rite proper
- The West Ferry Estate
- The End of the Island – Blackwall Entrance Lock
- The Public Library in Strattondale Street
- War Damage to Shelters in Poplar
- Limehouse Hole
- Me new book – A Dictionary of Lost East London
- The Poplar Gut
- The Barn Fields
- Millwall Flyers. Guest article by Con Maloney
- The Bridges of the Isle of Dogs
- The Mudchute Anti-Aircraft Gun Emplacement
- Dolly Fisher – ‘Tugboat Annie of the Thames’
- The Timber Transporter
- The Mill Wall
- Gizza Job, I Can Do That.
- Samuda Estate
- Tooke Times
- Historic Isle of Dogs Churches
- The Ill-Fated R101 over the Isle of Dogs
- Millwall Park Open-Air Swimming Pool
- The Windmills of Millwall
- Stebondale Street
- A Little Bit of Millwall
- The Isle of Dogs Progressive Club
- Central Granary
- Pier Head Cottages
- Cold Harbour Infectious Diseases Receiving Station
- The Millwall Extension Railway
- The Isle of Dogs and the American Civil War
- Christmas Tree From Norway
- Roland Dowlen: Island Scoutmaster and War Hero (Guest Blog)
- The Ferry House
- Millwall Fire Station
- Dockland Settlement
- The Other End of the Tunnel
- Wet, Wet, Wet
- Glen Terrace
- A View from a Balloon
- Lawn House
- The View from the Hill
- Women’s Work
- Now available: The Isle of Dogs During World War II
- Millwall Park
- The Glass Bridge
- The Newty
- Father Kingdon: “A man of reassuring bulk, generally with an endearing smile”
- Potter’s Ferry
- The Lascars
- Greenwich Foot Tunnel
- Kingsbridge – A Picture Worth a Thousand Words
- The Lost Waters of Millwall
- The Medieval Road from Poplar High St to the Greenwich Ferry
- The Prince Alfred Public House
- London Bridge – Made on the Isle of Dogs
- The Cutty Sark in Millwall Docks
- Barnfield
- The Isle of Dogs is NOT Named After Royal Hunting Dogs
- SS Endurance
- Moderately Shameless Self-Promotion
- The West India Dock Tavern
- The Drunken Dock
- A Pictorial History of St. Luke’s Church, Millwall
- Island Pub Map
- From Millwall to the Kop
- Rigger and Painter – Dick Whyte
- The Walls
- Filmed on the Island
- Unveiling of Bullivant’s Wharf Plaque
- Poplarism aka The Poplar Rates Rebellion
- The Distress
- Millwall FC – The Millwall Year(s)
- For the Convenience of the Public
- S.V. Penang
- Hello, Hello, Hello, What’s All This Then?
- Island Prefabs
- The Quest for Queenie Watts – The Voice of the Isle of Dogs
- Westwoods – From the Thames to the Indus
- “The General Tone of the Isle of Dogs is Purple”. Charles Booth’s Poverty Maps
- ‘Lead, Kindly Light’
- Dudgeon’s Wharf – You Couldn’t Make It Up
- Home Sweet, Defective Home
- The Tragedy at Bullivant’s Wharf
- The History of Canary Wharf
- Pickles and Pickets
- The Muddy
Tag Archives: Christ Church
The Quest for Queenie Watts – The Voice of the Isle of Dogs
A few months ago, I posed a question in one of the Isle of Dogs groups on Facebook. “Can anyone name a famous person who was born on the Isle of Dogs?” A lot of people answered, naming people I’d … Continue reading
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