Helen Brown, Author at Poplar LDN

A child walks outside of a Chinese freemason society in Limehouse. Image: The Underground Map

The story of Limehouse’s lost Chinatown

Limehouse was London’s first Chinatown, home to a tightly-knit community demonised in popular culture and eventually erased from the cityscape.

Former Tottenham scout Kirk Whitelock on opening Poplar’s Aberfeldy Boxing Club, tackling knife crime and food poverty, and providing a

Paolo Fiorentini tells of assimilating into life in London, dealing with grief through art, and teaching others how to use

Why Alan Nguyen left his career as an accountant to run the family shop set up by his parents 23

Artist Paolo Fiorentini made postcards of Poplar’s most iconic local landmarks to inspire pride in the area. “Someone bought the

Rahemur Rahman, the first Bangladeshi fashion designer to show at London Fashion week, on why he dedicated his last collection

Sewing teacher Asma Begum gives us an insight into her daily life, from creating a community of mothers to finding

Narrow Street’s Georgian terraced houses, canal boats and pebble beach make for a perfect day out surrounded by city skylines.

Lyn Gerald partners with Justice In Fashion to showcase sustainable fashion by East London designers at Poplar Union. Teacher and

The East India Company’s Poplar almshouses were built thanks to a greedy diamond trader, and housed a seaman maimed by

From gothic arches and white Greek columns to post-war modernist architecture, Poplar is studded with stunning churches. If you take