To the west is Millwall, to the east and south is Greenwich, to the northwest Canary Wharf, and to the north — across the Blue Bridge — is Blackwall.

The district is situated within the Blackwall & Cubitt Town Ward of Tower Hamlets London Borough Council.

HMS Prince Albert, the first British warship designed to carry her main armament in gun turrets, was launched here.

[1][2] Estates in the area include: The area is a mix of old east London working-class communities transplanted into 1960s and 1970s high-rise estates and the middle-class workers in the Canary Wharf complex attracted by relatively low prices for riverside living, plus less recent Bangladeshi and East Asian immigrant populations.

The total expense for this building was £6,805 13s 10d, which included some neighbouring land which originally served as a public garden before providing space for an extension to be used a meeting hall and erected in 1962.