Samuda Estate

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Samuda Estate is located in Cubitt Town on the Isle of Dogs. With 505 dwellings it is home to about 1,500 people. It is named after the shipbuilding company of the Samuda Brothers, Jacob and Joseph d'Aguilar Samuda.

Admiral Togo visited the site in 1877 to supervise the construction of the Fusō.

The Samuda Estate was used as the setting for Defiant Pose, a novel by Stewart Home. It has also been used as a location for a number of films and TV Dramas, including Dirty Pretty Things, England Expects The Face and Red Light Runners an uncompleted film scheduled to star Harvey Keitel.


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