Lansbury estate (London)

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Built for the 1951 Festival of Britain, and named after Popular Polar Labour MP George Lansbury. It is one of the larger estates in London, and is Bordered by East India dock road to the south, the DLR line to the east, and the Limehouse cut to the Northwest. It was a badly bombed plot of land before construction started in 1949, with several extensions being built, the last one finished in 1982. It has been considered by many one of the Model estates, with a good social community, and pleasing aesthetics, with human interests, and not economical interests at heart. It contains the Chrisp street market, the first purpose built pedestrian shopping street in the UK,with it's famous clocktower, and the Trinity Independent Chapel, which was rebuilt in a Modernist design after the original structure suffered heavy bombing in World war Two. The area is serviced by All Saints, and Langdon park Docklands Light Railway stations.
It should be noted that Popular British actor Angela Lansbury is Grand-Daughter to George Lansbury.