Poplar Dock looks very different now, with a small marina and flats around most sides. I think you can now only see one of the buildings which spread across the horizon in this picture.
 
At left is the elegant 1820 Georgian spire of All Saint's Poplar, then a tall tower holding floodlighting for the docks. After a couple of dockside cranes we come to the long low bulk of Robin Hood Gardens, sadly now demolished. It's impossible to understand why this pioneering block with many fine design features should have been refused listing and protection, other than that some people in powerful positions saw a chance to make large profits from its replacement by new higher density blacks built on the cheap. As with the Heygate at the Elephant, profit ha led to a fine building with a long expected life (with proper maintenance) being replaced by shoddier work with a shorter life time. Coming up behind it's right hand end is a tall tower that could be Balfron, saved from demolition, but whose residents were cheated out of rehousing in it when it was recently refurbished.