'Poplar Dock', 1872. Poplar Dock on the Isle of Dogs, originally a series of reservoirs built by the West India Company, in 1828 was converted to a railway dock used mainly to import coal from the Northeast of England. From, "LONDON. A Pilgrimage" by Gustave Dore and Blanchard Jerrold. [Grant and Co., 72-78, Turnmill Street, E.C., 1872].