School of Engineering and Navigation
L.C.C. School of Engineering and Navigation, High Street, Poplar
The building was designed under the superintendence of the Council's architect, W. E. Riley, begun in 1902 and opened in January 1906. The construction of the building was under the management of G. W. Humphreys of the Council's Works Department.
The basement contained a boiler-room, engine-house, workshops and laboratories; the ground floor administrative offices, drawing office, reading room and patternmakers' shop; the first floor had lecture rooms, classrooms and a 'preparation room'; and the second floor contained an engineering drawing office, navigation room, chemical theatre and laboratory, and balance-room. The flat part of the roof served for taking astronomical observations by ship's instruments.
See Also
Sources of Information
- 1994 Survey of London: volumes 43 and 44: Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs"