1935 was Silver Jubilee year, marking 25 years on the throne of King George V. To celebrate this, John Silley, manager of the Blackwall based ship repair company R. & H. Green & Silley Weir Ltd, decided to build this curved group of 28 retirement flats for shipbuilding workers, designed by architect G R Unthank. Silley persuaded the Port of London Authority to exchange this land on the edge of the Mudchute for the homes for land he owned in Becton and set up the Shipworkers Jubilee Housing Trust. to manage them.
 
With the support of Poplar Borough Council who set a specially low rate and a government housing subsidy the homes were let including rates for 2/6d per week (12.5p). They remain social housing but are now managed by the Southern Housing Group.