In wandering round Limehouse this morning, I found my way into Roy Square (originally named after its developer and now coyly called The Watergarden), another of the early examples of docklands housing, designed by Ian Ritchie in 1986. It wasn’t helped by being used for the displacement of tenants from the Barleymow Estate five years later:-
I admired the Barleymow Estate (called Barleymow because it occupies the site of the original 1730 Taylor Walker brewery) as seen across the false hill of Ropemaker’s Fields:-
I was intrigued by the angel and blue columns on the house at the corner of Three Colt Street:-
And I ended up looking at the original gate to West India Dock (it looks as if it needs a haircut):





Where is the above gate picture taken from?
It’s the old entrance to the dock located at the junction of what is now Ontario Way and Hertsmere Road. Charles
Not the one in the picture link or a different one?
http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConGallery.40/What-is-left-of-the-old-port-The-West-India-Docks.html
It’s a different one, not by the cinema, but on Hertsmere Road, just before Canary Wharf. Charles