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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.
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Former Taylor Walker pub from the inter-war period in Scandrett Street, Wapping. It closed in the 1980s and is now a coffee shop.
Photographed in the late 1980's when developers were beginning to ruin the area for rich kids' appartments
The Tobacco Dock was built in 1811-13 by John Rennie and extended in 1820s to link the London Dock with the Eastern Dock. It has now been infilled. The replica ships are associated with the conversion of the New Tobacco Warehouse into a shopping centre (now closed)
A striking apartment block on Brewhouse Lane, Wapping, viewed from Wapping High Street, May 22, 2012.
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The Thames Tunnel, the first tunnel under a river in the world, built between 1825, and 1843 by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and Marc Isambard Brunel. This is the Wapping end, The other end in in Rotherhithe.
It opened as a pedestrian tunnel, but later converted for railway use. It is now used by London Overground.
Pforte mit Allianzwappenstein von Bibra (links) /von Uttenhoven (rechts), bezeichnet „1769“, zwei schlichte Sandsteintorpfeiler zum Ökonomiehof
Wapping Dock on the River Mersey is part of the Port of Liverpool. It is situated in the southern dock system, connected to Salthouse Dock to the north, Queens Dock to the south. Kings Dock was originally located to the west, but has since been filled in.
The dock was opened in 1852. It was named after the road it runs alongside and which also gave its name to the Wapping Tunnel. Wapping or Edge Hill was constructed to enable goods services to operate between Liverpool docks and Manchester, as part of the planned Liverpool and Manchester Railway. It was the first tunnel in the world to be bored under a city. The tunnel ran downhill from Edge Hill cutting, near the former Crown Street Station goods yard in the east of the city, to Park Lane Goods Station near Wapping Dock.
The large brick warehouse built in 1856 along the eastern side of the dock was designed by Jesse Hartley. The building is of a similar architectural style to the warehouses surrounding the nearby Albert Dock. When originally built, it was 232 metres long and consisting of five separate sections. Bombed in the May Blitz of 1941, the badly damaged southernmost section was not rebuilt, with only the supporting cast iron columns remaining in situ. The remainder of the building continued in commercial use, even after the dock closed in 1972. The warehouse was restored and converted into residential apartments in 1988 and is Grade II listed.
0677 rotes Schild mit Wappen der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg - Treppe auf den Deich - Sitzbank auf dem Deich von Neuwerk. ©www.bildarchiv-hamburg.de
Hamburgs Stadtteile und Bezirke - Bilder von Hamburg NEUWERK, Bezirk Hamburg MITTE. Der Hamburger Stadtteil Insel Neuwerk im Bezirk Hamburg-Mitte liegt im südwestlichsten Teil der Elbmündung ca. 13 km nordwestlich von Cuxhaven. Bereits seit 700 Jahren gehört Neuwerk – mit Unterbrechung – zu Hamburg. Schon 1299, als Hamburg das Recht dazu erhielt, wurde auf der Insel ein 35 Meter hoher Turm als Seezeichen und als Vorposten gegen See- und Strandräuber errichtet und nach einem Brand in Stein als Festung von 1367 bis 1369 neugebaut. Der Leuchtturm Neuwerk ist das älteste Bauwerk Hamburgs und zudem Hamburgs letztes Festungsgebäude. Auf einer Fläche von 3,5 km² leben knapp 40 Einwohner in dem Hamburger Stadtteil.