Nauticá : Sugar Towers / Sweet Labour
The Tommy Flowers Foundation
Location: SS Robin and supporting Pontoon, Trinity Buoy Wharf, 64 Orchard Place, Poplar, London, E14 0JW. DOWNLOAD MAP BELONGING MAP
Nearest stations: Canning Town via the red bridge/City Island or East India DLR
Nearest parking: free after 5pm weekdays and all day weekends on nearby Aberfeldy estate
ACCESS INFORMATION
Please note that SS Robin and the pontoon are not step-free as access is via a gangway that may be steep depending on the tide. Seating will be available and an accessible WC is located on site at other side of the Orchard Cafe. If you have specific access requirements, please get in touch in advance so we can support your visit.
Nauticá : Sugar Towers / Sweet Labour
A free exhibition for Photomonth during Black History Month that blends rarely-seen images from the Getty Images Hulton Archive of mid-19th century Poplar industry and culture, with contemporary portraits by Adam French, augmented by Danny Amos Flynn’s Coolitude! screenprints of indentured Indian plantation workers in Mauritius forced to pay highly for their own ID photographs, exhibited alongside ceramic sugar bowls by Angela Strange using torn designs, echoing fractured lives.
This event is part of Tower Hamlets Black History Month 2026 and reflects this year’s theme: Honouring Our Communities.
With special thanks to the Black History Month team at London Borough of Tower Hamlets for their support and King’s Foundation students Dashiel Bonti and Evie Brookes.
Email tommyflowersfdn@gmail.com to receive our occasional newsletter.
EXHIBITION DATES/TIMES
Saturday 17 Oct – 11am–5pm
Sunday 18 Oct – 11am–5pm
Saturday 24 Oct – 11am–5pm
Sunday 25 Oct – 11am–5pm
Nauticá : Sugar Towers / Sweet Labour
The Tommy Flowers Foundation
Location: SS Robin and supporting Pontoon, Trinity Buoy Wharf, 64 Orchard Place, Poplar, London, E14 0JW. DOWNLOAD MAP BELONGING MAP
Nearest stations: Canning Town via the red bridge/City Island or East India DLR
Nearest parking: free after 5pm weekdays and all day weekends on nearby Aberfeldy estate
ACCESS INFORMATION
Please note that SS Robin and the pontoon are not step-free as access is via a gangway that may be steep depending on the tide. Seating will be available and an accessible WC is located on site at other side of the Orchard Cafe. If you have specific access requirements, please get in touch in advance so we can support your visit.
Nauticá : Sugar Towers / Sweet Labour
A free exhibition for Photomonth during Black History Month that blends rarely-seen images from the Getty Images Hulton Archive of mid-19th century Poplar industry and culture, with contemporary portraits by Adam French, augmented by Danny Amos Flynn’s Coolitude! screenprints of indentured Indian plantation workers in Mauritius forced to pay highly for their own ID photographs, exhibited alongside ceramic sugar bowls by Angela Strange using torn designs, echoing fractured lives.
This event is part of Tower Hamlets Black History Month 2026 and reflects this year’s theme: Honouring Our Communities.
With special thanks to the Black History Month team at London Borough of Tower Hamlets for their support and King’s Foundation students Dashiel Bonti and Evie Brookes.
Email tommyflowersfdn@gmail.com to receive our occasional newsletter.
EXHIBITION DATES/TIMES
Saturday 17 Oct – 11am–5pm
Sunday 18 Oct – 11am–5pm
Saturday 24 Oct – 11am–5pm
Sunday 25 Oct – 11am–5pm
Nauticá : Sugar Towers / Sweet Labour
The Tommy Flowers Foundation
Location: SS Robin and supporting Pontoon, Trinity Buoy Wharf, 64 Orchard Place, Poplar, London, E14 0JW. DOWNLOAD MAP BELONGING MAP
Nearest stations: Canning Town via the red bridge/City Island or East India DLR
Nearest parking: free after 5pm weekdays and all day weekends on nearby Aberfeldy estate
ACCESS INFORMATION
Please note that SS Robin and the pontoon are not step-free as access is via a gangway that may be steep depending on the tide. Seating will be available and an accessible WC is located on site at other side of the Orchard Cafe. If you have specific access requirements, please get in touch in advance so we can support your visit.
Nauticá : Sugar Towers / Sweet Labour
A free exhibition for Photomonth during Black History Month that blends rarely-seen images from the Getty Images Hulton Archive of mid-19th century Poplar industry and culture, with contemporary portraits by Adam French, augmented by Danny Amos Flynn’s Coolitude! screenprints of indentured Indian plantation workers in Mauritius forced to pay highly for their own ID photographs, exhibited alongside ceramic sugar bowls by Angela Strange using torn designs, echoing fractured lives.
This event is part of Tower Hamlets Black History Month 2026 and reflects this year’s theme: Honouring Our Communities.
With special thanks to the Black History Month team at London Borough of Tower Hamlets for their support and King’s Foundation students Dashiel Bonti and Evie Brookes.
Email tommyflowersfdn@gmail.com to receive our occasional newsletter.
EXHIBITION DATES/TIMES
Saturday 17 Oct – 11am–5pm
Sunday 18 Oct – 11am–5pm
Saturday 24 Oct – 11am–5pm
Sunday 25 Oct – 11am–5pm