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[[File:Stepney Civil Parish Map 1870 small.png|thumb|1870 map: the metropolitan borough in green]]'''Poplar''' is an area | [[File:Stepney Civil Parish Map 1870 small.png|thumb|1870 map: the metropolitan borough in green]]'''Poplar''' is an area of the [[London Borough of Tower Hamlets]]. It includes the docklands area, surrounded by a large bend in the River Thames, called the '''Isle of Dogs'''. From 1900 to 1965 it was part of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, which also included Bromley (referred to as Bromley-By-Bow to distinguish from [[Bromley]] in South-East London) and Bow. | ||
==LGBT history== | ==LGBT history== | ||
Revision as of 13:06, 8 January 2016
Poplar is an area of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It includes the docklands area, surrounded by a large bend in the River Thames, called the Isle of Dogs. From 1900 to 1965 it was part of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, which also included Bromley (referred to as Bromley-By-Bow to distinguish from Bromley in South-East London) and Bow.
LGBT history
In 2008 the Docklands Museum hosted "Outside Edge", an exhibition about London's black LGBT community.[1][2]
References
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- ↑ http://www.timeout.com/london/lgbt/david-mcalmont-on-the-outside-edge-exhibition. Accessed: 2016-01-08. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6eNfFLguh)
- ↑ http://blog.museumoflondon.org.uk/curating-the-outside-edge-exhibition-at-the-museum-in-docklands/. Accessed: 2016-01-08. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6eNfJJzhd)