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1/ THREAD: A government-prescribed, socially-distanced walk through the Isle of Dogs. First up, the Manchester Estate, a London County Council estate - designed by its Architect's Department and built by its Direct Labour Organisation - completed in 1962.
2/ Its current form reflects a refurbishment scheme carried out by Tower Hamlets Borough Council in 1990.
3/ The Manchester Grove Estate was built in 1925-1926 by Poplar Metropolitan Borough Council and designed by Borough Engineer Harley Heckford - when they were still building 'public conveniences' and well before the Island's later transformation.
4/ The Locke's Houses on East Ferry Road (here) and Chapel House Street were constructed c1920 by the Locke's Housing Society for the workers of Locke, Lancaster's nearby Millwall Lead Works. Designed by Bradshaw, Brown and Co, they copied the style of the Chapel House Estate.
5/ The Chapel House Estate was an Addison Act estate built by Poplar Metropolitan Borough Council between 1919-1921. The estate was designed in garden suburb, neo-Georgian style by Sir Frank Baines, the chief architect of the Office of Works. This is Chapel House Street.
6/ Here's Macquarie Way and Thermopylae Gate on the estate, named after renowned clipper ships.
7/ The Chapel House Estate also included these blocks of flats on Thermopylae Gate; unusually each had its own back garden.
8/ Here's George Lansbury, then leader of Poplar Metropolitan Borough Council, ceremonially cutting the first turf on the estate in January 1920. The Council provided each new home with a fruit tree, planted by an unemployed ex-serviceman.
9/ Moving on and looking across what was the Millwall Outer Dock, you see the four 22-storey towers of the Barkantine Estate, built by the Greater London Council, completed in 1968. The sloping roofs come from a later London Dockland Development Corporation-funded refurbishment.
10/ Montrose House nearby was built by the London County Council on the site of the former Phoenix Wharf and completed in 1937. It is a standard five-storey, walk-up, balcony-access tenement block of its time.
11/ Michigan House, adjacent, was originally planned in the same style but delayed by war and not completed until 1960. It's essentially built in the same form but of yellow stock brick and with the addition of lifts.
