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A view of the Regents Canal looking North from a bridge on The Commercial Road.
©Glyn Baker
Looking south to Limehouse Basin from Commercial Road Lock. Overhead is the viaduct of former Great Eastern Railway Fenchurch St to Blackwall, built 1836-40 by George & Robert Stephenson, now carrying the Docklands Light Railway.
©Pierre Terre
Regent's Canal north of Commercial road - pipe bridge and abutment of former ' Limehouse Curve' railway bridge built in 1880 to link the Blackwall railway to Bow. Behind is Salmon's Lane Bridge.
©Pierre Terre
Regent's Canal below Salmon Lane Lock, with New Parnham St footbridge completed in Feb 2005.
©Pierre Terre
The London, Tilbury & Southend Railway crosses Regent's Canal near Bow common
©Pierre Terre
View SE down Regent's Canal from near Ben Johnson Road Bridge, towards Canary Wharf [[TQ3780]]
©Pierre Terre
Rare surviving canal-side warehouses in Copperfield Road, once used for one of Dr Barnado's ragged schools.
©Pierre Terre
Looking from the lower gates of Johnson's Lock to the site of Stepney Gas works, under redevelopment.
©Pierre Terre
This is Docklands Garden Centre a tiny scrap of green in Tower Hamlets. Photographed from the platform of Stepney East (sorry Limehouse) Station
©Glyn Baker
Opened in 1933, the Troxy seated over 3,500 people but now looks in a sad state of repair. It has also been a venue for top artists like the Andrews Sisters, Gracie Fields, Petula Clark and even Clark Gable. The first film shown was King Kong. The last, in 1960, was The Siege of Sydney Street. Like most cinemas of that age, it finished up as a Bingo Hall.
©David Williams
I could see warm air rising from this chimney but I am not sure of its purpose.
©ANDY FISH
With mature plane trees
©Dr Neil Clifton
Built 1960, architects Maquire & Murray. Taken from St Paul's Way
©John Salmon
Built 1960, architects Maquire & Murray.
©John Salmon
Built 1960, architects Maquire & Murray.
©John Salmon

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