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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 Wapping Hydraulic Power Station (built 1890) was originally run by the London Hydraulic Power Company in Wapping, London, England. Originally it operated using steam and later it was converted to use electricity. It was used to power machinery, including lifts (elevators), across London. The Tower Subway was used to transfer the power, and steam, to districts south of the river.
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.
Another gradient marker, showing how the steep ascent towards Rotherhithe eases off on the approach to the Station.
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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.
Ob es sich hier um ein Lüttichau-Wappen handelt, ist fraglich. Das dortige Stadtarchiv konnte mir dazu keine Auskunft geben.
Wapping High Street, Wapping. Designed by Sidney Smirke as a Flour Mill and completed in 1840 and converted to flats in 1996.
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.
Railway signage in the Tunnel just south of Wapping Station.
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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.
The Wapping Project is a refurbished power station which now houses a nice bar and exhibitions, and films are being shown as well.
See the difference in our new workshop! There is space for three people to be working on three separate jobs. And look at the light! Very high ceilings meant we didn’t have to cut up the planks when they came from the woodyard, so we could make the most efficient use of the wood.
It had two more storeys above the ground floor, giving us space to display finished items, office space to discuss designs with potential customers, and rehearsal space for Open Productions. It was like a dream come true when we moved in.
In Chester, I had been living with Dave, but upon moving Open to Liverpool, Dave quit his flat and moved in with his parents temporarily, and Lynn carried on living at Dave’s Aunt Meg’s. That left me on the street, so Lin Baker took me in. Lin was stage manager for Albert, remember, a teacher and very much Lynn’s friend. Lin’s flat soon served as a retreat for Lynn and me, when we weren’t at Meg’s or Mike Hale’s (though it was a trek to his flat in Birkenhead). And this was when we weren’t at the workshop at #24, since the premises needed sorting and I had orders to complete. I know for a fact that Lynn and Lin did a lot of decorating – cheap white paint everywhere (and even some on the walls!).
But Lin’s flat didn’t offer Lynn and me the privacy which we naturally desired, so, with the help of Lynn’s dad, we bought a VW camper van – one of those 1960s icons, only not psychedelically painted! We used to park it, make some tea and watch the sun go down over the Mersey.
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A man steps over a fallen branch in Wapping High Street www.whatsinwapping.co.uk/st-judes-storm-uproots-tree-and-...
Wapping Station, on the former East London Line, now a London Overground Station on the Windrush Line, with one of Brunel's original Thames Tunnel shafts in the centre which now houses the stairwell down to the platforms.
This photo (from my archives) shows the ventilation shaft on the Limehouse side of the river, located in the King Edward VII Memorial Gardens. Until the second world war this had a staircase allowing pedestrians to access the tunnel.
Section of a riverfront Warehouse in Wapping London. Image taken 2007 from the deck of a rather bouncy boat. This detail is of King Henry's Wharves. I believe they are still used as warehouses.