Death of a Community
1986: Islanders dressed in black mourned the death of their community at the hands of developers and property speculators by processing with a coffin around the Isle of Dogs before staging a mock ‘funeral’ at Canary Wharf, the proposed site of a new financial centre - “the final nail in the coffin”

www.80sislandphotos.org.uk/death-of-a-community-march

The Isle of Dogs - before the big money:
www.hoxtonminipress.com/products/the-isle-of-dogs

Welcome to the Isle of Dogs:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ1BUtXPwPc

I'd move to Barking or Kennelworth.

By comparison, Ealing is a rural idyll.

Can you still buy red and green rover tickets?

Yes, but they're not valid to go as far as Leeds.

I believe you can get to Houndsditch, though.

Or a Greyhound bus to any city.