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| Cubitt Town | ||
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| PostCode District | E14 | |
| Borough | London Borough of Tower Hamlets | |
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Cubitt Town is an area in East London, and is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and is located in the London Docklands as part of the Isle of Dogs.
Toponymy[]
Cubitt Town is named after William Cubitt, Lord Mayor of London (1860–1862), who was responsible for the development of the housing and amenities of the area in the 1840s and 1850s, mainly to house the growing population of workers in the local docks, shipbuilding yards and factories. As it grew, Cubitt also created many local businesses employing manual labourers as well as the streets of housing to accommodate them.
History[]
A public library was financed by Andrew Carnegie and built by C. Harrold Norton, being completed in 1905.[1] Will Crooks, the then Mayor of Poplar had attended a meeting at the Guildhall, where Carnegie had promised to fund public libraries. Crooks was able to get a commitment from him to pay for two libraries, this one in Cubitt Town and another in Bromley-by-Bow. Carnegie agreed to provide £15,000 for both together. 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.
Education[]
Cubitt Town Library is currently owned by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council as part of their library service.[2]
More information on the Wikipedia page [3] and the British History Online page [4].