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on valentine's we had a really romantic dinner at a posh restaurant... not. instead we went all the way down to wapping to see the brunel tunnel, the 1st underwater tunnel built. evah.
it failed as a cargo transport system first, so it was used for the people to have fun and walk around. the arches which sheltered the stalls are still there. well worth the visit.
a big thank you to dave who got us the tickets.
(best viewed large)
One of the finest views in England, some would say this has been spolied by the Mann Island Development which blocks the once uniterrupted view if the 3 graces. Its a moot point.
Canal barges have been able to berth in Salthouse Dock since the extension of the Leeds Liverpool Canal was opened. The resurgance of the canals has provided a new life for some of these docks...to be honest, where better a place than Salthouse with a view like this!
Wapping Station looking towards the Thames Tunnel
The station, dating from1869, occupies the north end of the former Thames foot tunnel built by Marc Isambard Brunel between 1825 and 1843, and subsequently adapted for railway traffic. Access to the station is by lift or a flight of stairs built into one of the original access shafts of the Thames Tunnel
Wapping Wall, Wapping. Designed by E B Ellington, engineer to the Hydraulic Engineering Co of Chester who supplied the machinery, and built 1889-93. This was the last working station of five built by the London Hydraulic Power Co to provide power for cranes, lifting bridges etc throughout London Docks. It closed in 1977 and was converted to a gallery in 2000.
A pub near News International's printing presses in Wapping, hence the name (which presumably came into use when the printers moved in, around the late-80s). It has since closed.
Address: 50 The Highway (formerly St George Street, before that Ratcliff Highway).
Former Name(s): The St George's Tavern; The Artichoke Tavern.
Owner: Watney Combe Reid (former).
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Wapping Road School, Bradford 1877 - 2000
Business As Usual
This important and historic school building has fallen into serious disrepair because of a protracted debate over its future between the owners Sphinx Commercial Ltd, and Council planners. An outline planning application for turning the Grade II listed building into apartments was submitted in 2004, before it was sold, but that has not yet been turned into reality. Since being in planning limbo for four years it has been struck by arsonists, thieves and vandals on several occasions. As a result, the school’s slate roof has been gutted and most of its interior features destroyed. It is now on the council’s Listed Building ‘At Risk’ register.
A Remarkable Heritage
Wapping Road School, built in 1877, was a ‘Board School’ under Bradford's very own W.E. Forster's Education Act of 1870.
The school’s distinguished 123-year history saw it play a leading role in the development of state education. More than a century ago, the school created national and international headlines with the help of education campaigners Margaret and Rachel McMillan and their push to improve the lot of children in the state system. Their influence helped bring the country’s first school swimming pool to Wapping Road school and nearby Green Lane School in 1899.
Bradford was a grim place for the poor in the 19th Century, with a lot of extreme poverty. Children suffered in spite of the sacrifice by their parents. Also at this time, children were brought up from London workhouses to work in the mills. This is how the area of Wapping in Bradford got it’s name. Dirt and disease was a problem.
Right up to the early part of this century some children were ‘sewn up’ for the winter – wrapped in flannel which was then sewn into place and not removed until the warm weather came. Some parents thought that this was necessary because there was not enough food to keep a child warm otherwise.
Lots More Including Original Archive Images here.
Fairly early on a Sunday morning I was wandering the streets of Wapping and came across a broken doll on the cobbles. I took this general image which locates it fairly precisely, with the street name plate on the wall for Wapping High St, before moving closer.
I'd photographed this same street corner a year previously, without the doll and from a little closer to the junction, and I think the doll was probably on Clave St.
Wapping Lane, Wapping. Designed by F H Pownall and begun in 1865-6 but not completed until the 1939, it was then badly damaged in the war and renovated in 1948-50. To the right of the entrance is the Clergy House and to the left the Sisters' House both completed in 1881. It originated as a mission from St George's in the East under Father Lowder, the first such mission to the poor in the East End. The Mission provided schools, a refuge for prostitutes, a hostel for homeless girls, night classes and parish clubs, an insurance scheme for dockers, coal for the poor and general poor relief.
The Wapping Station end of the Brunel Tunnel. The twin-arch design can be clearly seen; it was built to accommodate horse-drawn carts which in the event did not use the Tunnel. In between the two bores is a succession of cross-passages; these were used to house shops and souvenir kiosks, the Tunnel being quite a popular tourist attraction when it finally opened - to pedestrians only - in 1843.
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The London Overground service between Highbury & Islington and New Cross/New Cross Gate was suspended over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend (24-26 May 2014) to adapt the line to take 5-car trains. The London Transport Museum took advantage of the closure to offer escorted walks through the tunnel between Rotherhithe and Wapping Stations.
The Tunnel was originally built as a pedestrian tunnel and opened in 1843; it was the only project on which Marc Isambard Brunel and his son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, worked together. It was sold for railway use in 1869, the first trains running four years later.
The tunnel was extensively renovated during the 1990s, during which most of it was restored to its original appearance.
with the river cruiser 'Mercia' passing Thames Barges moored up at Hermitage Wharf.
From Butlers' Wharf, London SE1.
Canon EOS 5D with Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* 85mm f/2.8.
Wapping station in 2004 before temporary closure for ELL extension works.
The round section of the building corresponds to the northern access shaft of the Thames Tunnel; this was incorporated into Wapping Station when the tunnel was converted for railway use in 1869.