Bacon's Atlas of London & suburbs, c.1912 : Sheet 13 West : East Ham, Silvertown, North Woolwich
A page from the wonderfully detailed Bacon's Atlas of London & Suburbs, this being dated from c1912 by one of the 'special maps' bound in at the front of the atlas. The bulk of London is covered in a series of map sheets at 4" to the mile and is very detailed giving a clear indication of the pre-WW1 city, in its full Victorian and Edwardian splendour but before the massive inter-war expansion into 'Metroland' and similar suburbs.
Bacon's was formed by one George Washington Bacon (1830–1922), an American who set up business in London producing atlases and maps of the capital in about 1870 after a series of business failures. G. W. Bacon & Co. Ltd. prospered and in c1900 were acquired by the Scottish publishers and cartographers W. & A.K. Johnston of whom they became a subsidiary.
This is sheet 13 of the "Four-Inch" scale maps and they show the eastern Docklands with, north of the River Thames, Beckton including the massive Gas Works of the London Gaslight & Coke Company, and south of the River the edges of Woolwich Arsenal and the marshlands to the east. This, the western section, clearly shows the Victoria and Albert Docks along with, under construction, what was to become the King George V Dock. London City Airport now sits in this area. To the south is Silvertown with the line of industries alongside the railway and river. The railway shows the northern deviation, through Custom House station, and the old line that became the Silvertown Tramway. These lines are now respectively parts of the trajectory of the Elizabeth line and DLR. North of the Docks the Northen Outfall Sewer, on its way to the works at Beckton, is an obvious feature with the Victorian and Edward suburbs of Plaistow and East Ham.
South of the River the old Royal Dockyard at Woolwich is seen. Woolwich, North and south, is linked by the famous free ferry that still operates and the boundary line shows that at this time North Woolwich was in the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich, since 1888 and so in the County of London. Previously it had been part of Kent. Even so it was surrounded by parts of Essex until the creation of the Greater London County Council in 1965.
Bacon's Atlas of London & suburbs, c.1912 : Sheet 13 West : East Ham, Silvertown, North Woolwich
A page from the wonderfully detailed Bacon's Atlas of London & Suburbs, this being dated from c1912 by one of the 'special maps' bound in at the front of the atlas. The bulk of London is covered in a series of map sheets at 4" to the mile and is very detailed giving a clear indication of the pre-WW1 city, in its full Victorian and Edwardian splendour but before the massive inter-war expansion into 'Metroland' and similar suburbs.
Bacon's was formed by one George Washington Bacon (1830–1922), an American who set up business in London producing atlases and maps of the capital in about 1870 after a series of business failures. G. W. Bacon & Co. Ltd. prospered and in c1900 were acquired by the Scottish publishers and cartographers W. & A.K. Johnston of whom they became a subsidiary.
This is sheet 13 of the "Four-Inch" scale maps and they show the eastern Docklands with, north of the River Thames, Beckton including the massive Gas Works of the London Gaslight & Coke Company, and south of the River the edges of Woolwich Arsenal and the marshlands to the east. This, the western section, clearly shows the Victoria and Albert Docks along with, under construction, what was to become the King George V Dock. London City Airport now sits in this area. To the south is Silvertown with the line of industries alongside the railway and river. The railway shows the northern deviation, through Custom House station, and the old line that became the Silvertown Tramway. These lines are now respectively parts of the trajectory of the Elizabeth line and DLR. North of the Docks the Northen Outfall Sewer, on its way to the works at Beckton, is an obvious feature with the Victorian and Edward suburbs of Plaistow and East Ham.
South of the River the old Royal Dockyard at Woolwich is seen. Woolwich, North and south, is linked by the famous free ferry that still operates and the boundary line shows that at this time North Woolwich was in the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich, since 1888 and so in the County of London. Previously it had been part of Kent. Even so it was surrounded by parts of Essex until the creation of the Greater London County Council in 1965.