In a further sign of regeneration in the area, the Docklands now has its own symphony orchestra-Docklands Sinfonia-which was formed in January 2009 and is based at St Anne's Limehouse.

The area gives its name to Limehouse Reach, a section of the Thames which runs from Shadwell, through Ratcliff and then Limehouse and on to Millwall.

The area inspired Douglas Furber ( lyricist ) and Philip Braham ( composer ) in 1921 to write the popular jazz standard Limehouse Blues, which was introduced by Jack Buchanan and Gertrude Lawrence in the musical revue " A to Z ".

The area also features in the Fu Manchu books of Sax Rohmer, where a Limehouse opium den serves as the hideout of the Chinese supervillain.

The area also appeared in Anna Mae Wong's 1929 film Piccadilly, where, as the toughly alluring Shosho, Ms. Wong was said to embody the Limehouse Chinatown mystique.

The next stop to the east on the DLR, Westferry, also lies within the Limehouse area.

Vehicular access is limited, as the area is cut off by the entrance to the Limehouse tunnel and parking is strictly controlled, however this makes the area reasonably quiet for cyclists.

The area has not yet experienced the levels of gentrification seen in nearby Bow, Wapping and Limehouse but some redevelopment has taken place.

Since the opening of the DLR, Limehouse has become a useful interchange for Essex commuters who work in the Canary Wharf area, but the two viaducts remained separate, resulting in an awkward interchange between the DLR platforms and the National Rail platforms, as passengers had to pass down and then up flights of stairs.

It occupies an area bounded by the East India Dock Road to the south, the Docklands Light Railway to the east and the Limehouse Cut ( a canal ) to the north-west.

The Limehouse Link tunnel is a long tunnel in the Limehouse area of east London on the A1203 road which links the northern approach of Tower Bridge with a point just north of Canary Wharf in London Docklands.

Narrow Street is a narrow street running parallel to the River Thames through the Limehouse area of east London, England.

In London, the Limehouse area became the site of the first Chinatown established in Britain and Europe.

In April 2011, Limehouse Library having closed in 2003, the Attlee statue was unveiled in its new home at Queen Mary University of London.

By 1919, anti-Chinese riots attacked Limehouse, the Chinatown of London.

* February 8 – An earthquake in London breaks chimneys in Limehouse and Poplar.

Lean was a long-term resident of Limehouse, east London.

Having eventually retrieved the cavorite, the League delivers it into the hands of their employer — none other than Professor Moriarty ( arch nemesis of Sherlock Holmes ), who plans to use it in an airship of his own, with which he will bomb his adversary's Limehouse lair flat, taking large parts of London and the League itself with it.

Some of the lithographs are of figures slightly draped ; two or three of the very finest are of Thames subjects — including a " nocturne " at Limehouse ; while others depict the Faubourg Saint-Germain in Paris, and Georgian churches in Soho and Bloomsbury in London.

Limehouse is a district in East London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Although most cargoes were discharged in the Pool of London before the establishment of the docks, industries such as shipbuilding, ship chandlering and rope making were established in Limehouse.

On 12 February 1832, the first case of cholera was reported in London at Limehouse.

By 1981, Limehouse shared the docklands-wide physical, social and economic decline which led to the setting up of the London Docklands Development Corporation.

Today, Limehouse is part of the constituency of Poplar and Limehouse and has been represented in the House of Commons since 1997 by Jim Fitzpatrick MP ( Labour ), and in the London Assembly since 2000 by John Biggs AM ( also Labour ).

Thomas Burke wrote Limehouse Nights ( 1916 ), a collection of stories centered around life in the poverty-stricken Limehouse district of London.

The Limehouse district of London is depicted in the silent film " Broken Blossoms " or " The Yellow Man And The Girl " directed by " D. W. Griffith " ( 1919 ) " where the Orient squats at the portals of the West ".

Limehouse station, located to the immediate west of the Limehouse Basin, serves the c2c mainline trains out to Essex, and Docklands Light Railway, which is two stops from Bank & Tower Gateway in the City of London.

By the 1840s Whitechapel, along with the enclaves of Wapping, Aldgate, Bethnal Green, Mile End, Limehouse, Bow, Bromley-by-Bow, Poplar, Shadwell and Stepney ( collectively known today as " the East End "), had evolved, or devolved, into classic " Dickensian " London, with problems of poverty and overcrowding.

In October 1985, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Dave Edmunds, Lee Rocker, Rosanne Cash and Ringo Starr appeared with him on stage for a television special that was taped live at the Limehouse Studios in London called Blue Suede Shoes: A Rockabilly Session.

In London, she finds lodgings in the Limehouse home of Mrs. Bronowski, who offers to watch Billy while Hannah searches for employment.

Despite strong resistance from anti-fascists, including the local Jewish community, the Labour Party, the Independent Labour Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain, the BUF found a following in the East End of London, where in the London County Council elections of March 1937 it obtained reasonably successful results in Bethnal Green, Shoreditch and Limehouse, polling almost 8, 000 votes, although none of its candidates was actually elected.

… I am a Kentish man, born in a town called Gillingham, two English miles from Rochester, one mile from Chatham, where the King's ships do lie: from the age of twelve years old, I was brought up in Limehouse near London, being Apprentice twelve years to Master Nicholas Diggins ; and myself have served for Master and Pilot in her Majesty's ships ; and about eleven or twelve years have served the Worshipfull Company of the Barbary Merchants, until the Indish traffic from Holland began, in which Indish traffic I was desirous to make a little experience of the small knowledge which God had given me.

On 30 November 1988, a bronze statue of Clement Attlee was unveiled by Harold Wilson ( the next Labour prime minister after Attlee ) outside Limehouse Library in his former constituency.

However, there is no evidence that LDDC foresaw this scale of development and nearby Heron Quays had already been developed as low density offices when Canary Wharf was proposed, with similar development already underway on Canary Wharf itself, Limehouse Studios being the most famous occupant.

: Of course, not the whole Chinese population of Limehouse was criminal.

It was Rohmer's contention that he based Fu Manchu and other " Yellow Peril " mysteries on real Chinese crime figures he knew during his time as a newspaper reporter covering Limehouse activities.

The King was displeased at Liberal attacks on the peers, including Lloyd George's Limehouse speech and Churchill's public demand for a general election ( for which Asquith apologised to the King's adviser Lord Knollys and rebuked Churchill at a Cabinet meeting ).

Many Liberal politicians attacked the peers, including Lloyd George in his Limehouse speech, in which he said “ a equipped Duke costs as much to keep up as two dreadnoughts ( battleships )” and was " less easy to scrap ".

Limehouse Basin was amongst the first docks to close in the late 1960s.

It was based on four major projects: Limehouse Basin, Free Trade Wharf, what was then known as the Light Rapid Transit Route ( DLR ) and the Docklands Northern Relief Road, a road corridor between The Highway and East India Dock across the north of the Isle of Dogs.

This speech was the origin of the phrase " To Limehouse ", or " Limehousing ", which meant an incendiary political speech.

Much later, it was reprised in the ballet " Limehouse Blues " featuring Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer in the musical film Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ).

Limehouse Blues was also the name of a 1934 film, starring George Raft.

Contemporary residents include the actor Sir Ian McKellen, Matthew Parris, and comedy actress Cleo Rocos, actor Steven Berkoff, comedian Lee Hurst, as well as politician Lord David Owen .< ref >< cite > David Owen biography accessed 28 March 2007 </ ref > Limehouse was also the home of the late film director Sir David Lean.

St Anne's Limehouse was built by Nicholas Hawksmoor.

The choice of Limehouse was also due as it was « a district renowned for his criminals ».

The canal was constructed in 1820 to carry cargo from Limehouse into the canal system.