June 2009

	Bridget Cherry - Poplar Trail Poplar, London. Sat 6 June, 2009 All Saints, East India Dock Road was locked. It has a fine old fence
	East India Dock Road here still has a number of mainly nineteenth century buioldings with more recent shop fronts
	Poplar Baths and Richard Green, (1803–63) shipbuilder and philanthropist. The baths have been empty and unused for some years
	Green's Blackwall Yard, until 1815 the largest private shipbuilding yard in the world. Green was the fifth child of his father, George Green and the only child to survive infancy.
	Poplar Borough Council arms . Poplar cared for and provided facilities for the poor - cared enough for councillors to be jailed over the rates. Canary Wharf which now looms over the area expresses architecturally a very different priority - the power of money
	Chrisp St Market Fountain (nails - LDDC, 1989, now waterless) and Idea Store (aka Library) by Adjaye Associates 2003-4
			George Green Schools, 1883 (Clock 1928). Green (1767-1849),a shipbuilider, was owner of the Blackwall Yard and father of Richard (above) The fear of the Lord that is wisdom and to depart from evil is understanding. Job XXVII.28 The new building was specifially built to provide a wider secondary education after the 1870 Act had provided free and universal elementary education. Green was a Congregationalist who also bullt and endowed the Trinity Chapel, Sailors Home on the East India Road. The son of a Chelsea brewer, he worked at the Blackwall shipyard of John Perry, married his daughter and became a partner in the business.

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