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Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.
37254 on 3Z02 14:00 Derby R.T.C. - Carlisle High Wapping Sidings at Alsager 08/01/2023
Think this was the 4th attempt at this run to Carlisle, we actually thought it had been caped again today too like 37405 on RHTT's which ran 3 hours ish late leaving Coleham....
Oswell House is a modernist block of flats in Wapping. Built in 1966.
I particularly like the 'flying staircase' high up near the top which links it to the adjacent building, Doughty Court.
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.
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 m (254 yd)long and consisted 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.
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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.
Liverpool
Some ducks would fly in out of the thick fog and came in fairly close. Then take off when they realized there was a human standing near by.
LMS Blacck 5's no. 45212 + 45407 pass through Wylam working 5Z45 Grosmont - Carlisle High Wapping sdgs. 9th April 2017
There are signs of times past and modern in this view of the River Thames, taken from the Thames Path at Wapping.
Sailing masts, old wharf buildings, and of course Tower Bridge provide a link to the past. Blocks of flats, the old City Hall, Guy's Hospital and The Shard are among some of the more modern structures of the London skyline.
A snap taken from Pelican Stairs in Wapping, showing a sign of the areas more gruesome past. The adjacent pub 'The Prospect of Whitby' dates back to 1520.
Another one of my Wapping shots, this one is looking East (down the river) with Canary Wharf near the centre
A southbound London Overground class 378 unit comes out of a tunnel into an essentially white scene at Wapping station on the East London Line.
As well as the white wall on the right, there is a fair sprinkling of white grit salt on the narrow platform. This is applied because although the stretch of the line between Surrey Quays and Whitechapel is below ground (and of course the River Thames), a small part of the northen end of the platform is exposed to the weather. This shot was taken on the last day of a week long cold snap across the British Isles.
Liverpool Wapping Dock the tower dates from 1856 - 100 years before I was born
My ancestors built ships around here at that time so would have seen similar views - I always feel comfortable walking around here- used to knock around here as a kid too over 50 years ago as one of my Grandfathers was a docker (the other died during the war so never met him ) we used to meet up and have lunch at a cafe further up the dock road - then I would get on the Ferry to Seacombe or New Brighton- good summers they were -gone in a flash
I had never been to this part of east London before. I had only recently heard about this canal in Wapping which is a remnant from the area's former role as London's docks. It certainly deserves its name 'ornamental' - it looks almost as if it was laid out specifically to create viewpoints for photography.
Being here felt like being in a different city - Paris, perhaps, with the Shard taking the place of the Eiffel Tower.
By the way, I promise that the seagull in the top left is not a comped-in addition. It was really there. As were the swans on the canal.
A very unusual visitor to Bristol, Glasgow Eastfield's 20022 departs Wapping Wharf along the line now used by the Bristol Harbour railway. It is about to pass under Cumberland road before running along the side of the New Cut, crossing Ashton swing bridge and joining the Portishead branch at Ashton Junction.
The railtour was called the "Severnsider 2" and 37215 was the loco at the other end. 30th June 1985.
Much has changed here. The sheds on the other side of the harbour have gone, as have most of the sidings visible above the loco. The MV Glen Avon in the background was a sludge carrier for Wessex Water, later sold to an oil company in Nigeria.
The two-storey structure occupying most of the foreground is Bridewell Place. Today it comprises expensive maisonettes but it looks as though it may have had an earlier life, although it has proven surprisingly difficult to ascertain any details.
From a general perspective, the Wapping area was first settled by Saxons, from whom it takes its name (meaning literally [the place of] Wæppa’s people). It developed along the embankment of the Thames, hemmed in by the river to the south and the now-drained Wapping Marsh to the north. This gave it a peculiarly narrow and constricted shape, consisting of little more than the axis of Wapping High Street (the cobbled road seen above) and some north-south side streets. John Stow, the 16th century historian, described it as a "continual street, or a filthy strait passage, with alleys of small tenements or cottages, built, inhabited by sailors’ victuallers".
Wapping was inhabited by sailors, mastmakers, boat-builders, blockmakers, instrument-makers, victuallers and representatives of all the other trades that supported the seafarer. Wapping was also the site of ’Execution Dock’, where pirates and other water-borne criminals faced execution by hanging from a gibbet constructed close to the low water mark. Their bodies would be left dangling until they had been submerged three times by the tide. Though Execution Dock is long gone, a gibbet is still maintained on the Thames foreshore by the Prospect of Whitby public house (about 575m downstream from the true Execution Dock!).
The area’s strong maritime associations changed radically in the 19th century when the London Docks were built to the north and west of the High Street. Wapping’s population plummeted by nearly 60% during that century, with many houses destroyed by the construction of the docks and giant warehouses along the riverfront. Squeezed between the high walls of the docks and warehouses, the district became isolated from the rest of London, although some relief was provided by Brunel’s Thames Tunnel to Rotherhithe. The opening of Wapping tube station on the East London Line in 1869 provided a direct rail link to the rest of London.
Wapping was devastated by German bombing in World War II and by the post-war closure of the docks. It remained a run-down and derelict area into the 1980s, when the area was transferred to the management of the London Docklands Development Corporation, a government quango with the task of redeveloping the Docklands. The London Docks were largely filled in and redeveloped with a variety of commercial, light industrial and residential properties. Much of the remaining warehousing has been turned into expensive residences and I think that's what has happened to Bridewell Place.