Lansbury Estate

The area named after the Labour M.P. George Lansbury (1859-1940) who was born near Lowestoft. A vice president of the National Trust, Socialist mayor of Poplar and first elected Labour MP for Bow and Bromley in 1910 He resigned in 1912 to stand again as a woman's suffrege supporter. He was defeated and was not re-elected until 1922.

He founded the Daily Herald which he edited until 1922 when it became the official paper of the Labour Party. He also served as the first Commissioner of Works in 1929 for the second Labour government and Leader of the Labour Party 1931-35. (He was the grandfather of stage and screen actress Angela Lansbury.)

The district to the north of East India Dock Road, west of the railway from Bromley to Poplar Station, south of Limehouse Cut, which was bombed during World War Two, was named after the man who 'devoted his life to working for a better world and a new Poplar'.