Poplar

The Falke Type Torpedo Boat.

Among the different classes of vessels designed for special services constructed by Messrs. Yarrow Co. at Poplar for the British government is one which is stated to be the fastest torpedo boat in Her Majesty's Navy.

This boat has been put through its official trials with a load of fifteen tons running continuously for two hours without stopping.

A speed of twenty-three knots, which is equal to twenty-six and a half statute miles an hour was obtained.

And another key thing that's happening in the period between the two wars is in, especially in Britain, well, I'd say not especially, but at least that's what I know about, is various attempts at kind of local self-organization and municipal socialism, basically.

Famously in Britain, in Poplar, um, which is a, a part of London that at the time was very, very... had a very sort of poor local demographic.

You get labor-led local administrations trying to create all kinds of local welfare services.

Uh, in South Wales, like the great historic redoubt of the coal miners, um, the, and the mining unions, uh, you famously get, uh, in the, um, especially in the, the South Wales town of, um, Tredegar, you get, y- you get the creation of local institutions like f- like the, um, the Tredegar Medical, Medical Aid Society, which, yeah, basically everybody living locally pays a subscription, effectively a kind of voluntary local tax to fund what is a kind of localized, fully comprehensive health service.

Young gentlemen who entered the navy had no desire to become masters.

Those who went into this line were practical sailors, men as tough and often as rough as the common seaman, who lived when they were at home at Wapping, Poplar, Shadwell, and Stepping, if they belonged to the port of London, or at Point, Gosport, and certain streets outside the dockyard walls at Portsmouth, if they belonged to that town.

Cook at that time, 27 years of age, resolved that he would not be a pressed man.

He would enter as a volunteer.

So who was the real man and exactly what year was he born and when? Well, it seems that his 1905 and 1907 New South Wales jail records were accurate in terms of his birth date and his birthplace.

George Michaelis was born on the 1st of April 1873 in Poplar, Middlesex, England, to Louis Michaelis, a German, and Jane Butler.

They had married on the 14th of April 1856 at the Trinity Church in Stepney, Middlesex, England.

Louis was a shipping clerk.

So at the moment, so at the back of the hotels that we've done in London and in Europe and the residential, we've entered a new segment where we've been invited to work for residential development for long-term rental apartments that are designed in-house by the brand, but their ground floor public spaces are intended to be more like hotel public spaces or or members club public spaces.

So we're working on one at the moment in Poplar in East London, and it's about 450 square meters of public areas with a large gym for residents, a coffee shop, coworking area, lounge spaces.

And it's really interesting because it's a segment where the hospitality language and aesthetic and challenges are intended to be brought for residential users.

So it's quite developed in America with like those big buildings that have like big gyms, lounges.

Young gentlemen who entered the navy had no desire to become masters.

Those who went into this line were practical sailors, men as tough and often as rough as the common seamen, who lived when they were at home at Wapping, Poplar, Shadwell, and Stepping, if they belonged to the port of London, or at Point, Gosport, and certain streets outside the dockyard walls at Portsmouth, if they belonged to that town.

Cook at that time, twenty-seven years of age, resolved that he would not be a pressed man.

He would enter as a volunteer.

What is that

like? Ta Hamlets, East London, Poplar, which is round the corner from Bow, down the road from Stratford.

Yeah.

East London, geezers, you know what I mean? Yeah.