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3 unusual facts about Isle of Dogs


1886–87 Royal Arsenal F.C. season

The match was played on a piece of scrap land in what is now Tiller Road on the Isle of Dogs.

C. J. Freezer

Training as an engineer in a dockyard on the Isle of Dogs and working for Associated Press, he started as editor of the Railway Modeller magazine.

Telephone interpreting

Police on the Isle of Dogs became his second client, and he later began serving corporate clients and converted the charity into a commercial service.


Anti-Fascist Action

In 1993, Derek Beackon, a candidate from the British National Party (BNP), won a council seat on the Isle of Dogs in Tower Hamlets, East London; under the slogan of "Rights for Whites".


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