Melanie McGrath's book Silvertown is a novelistic account of her grandmother's life in the area, where she and her husband ran a cafe.
In the late 1930s, she joined the Goodrich Silvertown, a prestigious softball club sponsored by B. F. Goodrich Company, one of the largest tire and rubber manufacturers in the world.
The terminal on the north side of the River Thames is at the Royal Victoria DLR station on the area named Royal Victoria Dock just north of Silvertown in London Borough of Newham.