The Lee Navigation above Bow Bridge is flanked by the A102 Blackwall Tunnel Northern Approach Road (on the left). The large red-brick building with the water tower is the former Bryant and May's match factory, now converted into flats. This factory was the site of the match-girls' strike of the 1880s, famous for being one of the first strike by women workers, and the first about working conditions rather than pay. It succeeded in obtaining pensions for those of the workers who had to stop work because of the effects of phosphorous poisoning. Its organiser, Annie Bezant, was one of the early founders of the Labour Party.