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Wapping is one of my favourite areas of London. Once a busy dock, when the docks closed much of the area became run-down. Today it is one of the richest parts of London, with the old wharfes now transformed into luxury flats, but unlike many areas of London, the transformation has taken place whilst retaining it's history. The old wharfes are now beautifully restored, and the narrow, winding cobbled streets give the area a lot of character.
Next to a pub in wapping there is a set of stairs leading down to the river. I took this picture of a bucket of bones on the top step. I assume I hadn't stumbled upon a crime scene. Perhaps someone was picking up things at low tide.
If anybody has any idea what this was all about, let me know.
Hermitage Basin, Wapping. Built by the Port of London Authority in 1913-14 it was designed to maintain water levels in the dock basins.
The main station building and entrance to Wapping Underground Station
on Wapping High Street, London E1.
I sat outside a coffee shop on the corner of Wapping Lane and Wapping High Street and shot this Alexander ALX200-bodied Dart of East London as it negoatiated the tight corner whilst on route D3.
At one of the many closed pedestrian crossings on the Highway in E1 due to early implementation of physical Olympic Route Network barriers www.whatsinwapping.co.uk/olympic-barriers-isolate-wapping...
Wapping High Street, Wapping. Dock Officials' houses at the Entrance Lock to London Dock, designed by Daniel Asher Alexander and completed 1811-13.
Brunel’s Thames Tunnel, between Wapping and Rotherhithe, was the first tunnel to be built under a river anywhere in the world. It took eighteen years to complete and opened in 1843. It was described as the ‘eighth wonder of the world’ and introduced methods of tunnelling still used today.
12th March 2010 was the penultimate day that the public will ever be given foot-access to the Brunels’ brilliant construction. I walked it from Rotherhithe to Wapping and back, stepping over the relaid rails of the East London Line, and marvelling.
That's Rotherhithe across the river, which would be my next destination after roaming around Wapping for a bit.
Wapping High Street, Wapping. Designed by Sidney Smirke as a Flour Mill and completed in 1840 and converted to flats in 1996.
Graffitified sign denoting that this was once an operational school.
Sadly now forlorn but not forgotten by the local vandals!
www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/local/localbrad/35444...
In the Uncommercial Traveller, Dickens walks to Wapping in search of Wapping Workhouse for Women which had been called a disgrace by a magistrate. Dickens gets himself lost, but eventually finds the workhouse where he finds it is clean and very well run. On old maps, the location is shown adjacent to St John's church and school. So this photo is in the right place and possibly shows a building of that date.