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a through service of trams and motor omnibuses, which convey
a large number of the population, chiefly consisting of clerks,
warehousemen, mechanics, postal and telephone officials to and
from the City of London.
The industries of the district are the Beckton Works of the
Gas Light and Coke Company, Royal Albert Docks, a firm of
wholesale druggists, several manufacturers of ladies' wearing
apparel, a butter substitute factory, a food factory, monumental
masons, artificial flower workshop and office paste works.
The district has grown from a population of 96,018 in 1901,
to 133,487 at 1911 Census, and is still growing. The building of
the new docks (now under construction bv the Port of London
Authority) will increase the demand for houses in that part
of the Borough. The houses now being erected in the immediate
neighbourhood of the Greatfield Estate are very satisfactory, each
with a small piece of garden at the rear.
The subsoil is sand and gravel with the exception of a portion
in the south of the Borough, where it consists of alluvium
overlying London clay.
The altitude is low, the highest point being about 50 feet
above ordnance datum.