Wapping High Street, London

Wapping High Street, East London, April 2013.

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.

A random shop in Shadwell/Wapping

Berner Wappen mit Berner Bär an einem Gebäude der ehemaligen Johanniterkommende Münchenbuchsee im Dorf Münchenbuchsee im Berner Mittelland im Kanton Bern der Schweiz

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V.elot.our von J.egenst.orf nach Z.ollik.ofen am Freitag den 28. August 2015

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Mit dem Z.ug von B.ern nach J.egenst.orf

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Mit dem F.ahrr.ad J.egenst.orf - U.rtenen - M.ooss.eed.orf - M.ünchenb.uchs.ee - Z.ollikofen

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Mit dem Z.ug zurück nach Bern

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a deserted, unsuccessful development from the 80s, attempting to make over the London Docks into an east end hub of commerce. A lesson for all developers... It's particularly bad in the way that the waterway was reduced to 3 ins depth, presumably on health and safety grounds.

Royal Mint Street

Wapping Mine, Matlock

Cabbage White butterfly sits on a dandelion and a fly approaches from behind

Built: 1889-93

Architect: E.B. Ellington

Decommissioned: 1977 (some plant remains insitu)

Grade 28 listed: Sept 1973 (listed as London Hydraulic power Company Station with No 37)

Reopened: 2000 as The Wapping Project a restaurant and art space by Shed 54 Ltd

Wapping Mine, Matlock

Arts Centre & Restaurant. Ex London Hydraulic Power Company Pumping Station, Wapping.

Chain at The Salthouse Dock Liverpool

Tobacco Dock soldiers meet Wapping residents and Mayor of Tower Hamlets Lutfur Rahman

Arts Centre & Restaurant. Ex London Hydraulic Power Company Pumping Station, Wapping.

This is one of several fox cubs in Wapping, London, E1W at the moment.

Wapping

Georgie the terrier - Wapping

The Wapping squirrel eats a sandwich in Wapping Rose Gardens

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.