Poplar always looks and feels as if it was heavily bombed, without any relics of its seventeenth-century shipyards and consisting mainly of large 1930s and 1950s estates.   At its heart is St. Matthias, which contains within its mid-Victorian ragstone casing the original chapel of the East India Company which first opened in the early 1650s:

This is the graveyard:

This is the former Board of Works opened in 1870:

And this is the old Chaplain’s House, with the arms of the East India Company in the pediment: