Tankerton’s name comes from Tankerton Street, an elfin road that once made up a part of the Cromer Street Estate. Halfway between King’s Cross and Bloomsbury, Tankerton Street was developed in 1893 by the philanthropic East End Dwellings Company, who encouraged their tenants to lead responsible and respectable lives. In its original iteration, when it was the Lucas Estate, it received the worst designation on Charles Booth’s poverty map. A decade later, under the management of the EEDC, it had gone up in their estimations, with the map now noting its occupants included policemen and postmen among their number.