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Once this mysterious and rather isolated riverside and docklands area had no bus service. In 1966, just at the time the docks were closing, route 67 was extended here, ending their isolation (though there has always been a station). For some time the main route through the area has been the 100 between Shadwell and Elephant & Castle, serving much more of the area than the 67 ever did.
On Saturday 19th July 2014 there was an open day at the Abellio's Walworth garage and as WL operates the 100, Ensign's RT3251 ran some extra trips on the route. This gave the unique opportunity to travel over the route on a double-decker.
You can see a view towards Wapping Wharf, M Shed and some cranes.
Wapping Wharf has a rich history dating back to the 18th century when it became the site of shipyards and a dry dock. When Bristol's merchants developed Queen Square around 1700, its shipyards were displaced to Wapping Wharf, marking the start of the area's long association with ship building.
Since Wapping Wharf opened in 2016, we've been committed to being a space for independent businesses to grow and thrive.
(From wappingwharf.co.uk)
M Shed is a museum in Bristol, England, located on Prince's Wharf beside the Floating Harbour in a dockside transit shed formerly occupied by Bristol Industrial Museum. The museum's name is derived from the way that the port identified each of its sheds. M Shed is home to displays of 3,000 artefacts and stories, showing Bristol's role in the slave trade and items on transport, people, and the arts. Admission is free. The museum opened in June 2011, with exhibits exploring life and work in the city. In its first year, 700,000 people visited the new museum.
Normally moored in front of the museum is a collection of historic vessels, which include a 1934 fireboat (the Fire-float Pyronaut), and two tugboats (Mayflower, the world's oldest surviving steam tug, and John King, a 1935 diesel tug) and the replica caravel The Matthew, the ship that crossed the Atlantic with John Cabot in 1497.
On the quayside outside the museum are four electrically powered cargo cranes built in 1951 by Stothert & Pitt. Three of these cranes are operational and operate some weekends. A short distance to the west on Wapping Wharf is a much older crane, the sole surviving operational example of a Fairbairn steam crane. Built in 1878, also by Stothert & Pitt, it was in regular use until 1973, loading and unloading ships and railway wagons with loads up to 35 tons. It has been restored and is in working order, operating on some bank holidays and during the Bristol Harbour Festival. (From Wikipedia)
View taken on 13 October 1973.
Scanned from a Kodachrome slide taken by the late Lyndon Rowe, now in my collection.
Repost from the web. Uploaded with Danny McL in mind. Vaugham Way is notable by it's absence. Interesting that Wapping Basin was already a sport centre by 1983.
CREDIT TO ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHER (i.e. no me).
Alongside the Floating Harbour in the Bristol Docks area is ‘M Shed’ which now a museum. These transit warehouses were served by an extensive rail network and in this view GWR pannier tank 3731 is shunting at Princes Quay in the mid 1950s. Attached is a shunters truck which is marked as being dedicated to use in the Wapping Wharf area.
At this time the locomotive was allocated to Bristol St Phillips Marsh shed 82B moving west to St Blazey 83E in Cornwall in 1961, before being transferred to Neath Court Sart shed 87A in 1962 for its last two years before withdrawal.
Salthouse Dock is the oldest existing dock in Liverpool, and some of the masonry in the south-west corner of the dock is from the original construction. The dock walls are Grade II listed. A granite stone gable and arch entrance survives at the south east corner of the dock, from a transit shed built by Jesse Hartley.
Wapping Arch Liverpool. 237/365
This panorama is made from two scanned negs, I think this may be a unique view across towards Albert Dock which now can not be replicated.
Camera Pentax 6x7, 45mm lens film Kodak VPS.
Wapping Beach on the River Thames foreshore in London is only reachable in low tide.
This stretch of the Thames was also once the site of Execution Dock where, for over 400 years, maritime criminals were hanged.
The Turks Head, Wapping, seen from St John's Churchyard.
Flickr, Wapping, NOT Rotherhite, you would need to swim to get to Rotherhithe.