Isle of Dogs The Isle of Dogs is a horseshoe of land curving into the River Thames just beyond Stepney. Water surrounds it on three sides and Millwall and Cubitt Town lay to the east and west with Poplar to the north. Queen Elizabeth the first was said to exercise her dogs here hence the [...]

Flu and Dr Tapper Flu epidemics of all sorts come and go, but in London’s pre-war East End, there was no vaccine to fight an outbreak of anything. There were countless diseases springing from poverty and all you had at your disposal were the coloured glass flasks of herbal remedies lining Dr Tapper’s shelves. Each [...]