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RD11667. Wapping Station in East London, opened in 1869 by the East London Railway. It is situated at the north end of the Thames Tunnel which was build by Marc Brunel and his son Isambard during 1825 to 1843 although there was a seven year break in construction while further funds were raised.
Although planned as a road tunnel, there were insufficient funds to build the access ramps so it remained a foot tunnel with access by spiral staircases. The access to Wapping Station is via the north access shaft and although there are still stairs leading down to the platforms, there is also a lift.
It was taken over by the East London Railway in 1865 and opened as a railway tunnel in 1869, thus providing a rail link between north and south London. In 1933 the Thames Tunnel became part of the London Transport underground system although main line freight trains still used it until 1962; it now forms part of the London Overground network and pictures on the walls depict the station and the tunnel in earlier times. This one shows it in the early days of steam traction after its conversion to a railway tunnel.
Wednesday, 15th July, 2015. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
This district in east London is now home to luxury flats, but was once part of the Docklands area. Many of the structures are new (last 30 years) but built in the style of warehouses. I can imagine it was a pretty rough area at one time. We saw a few older buildings with exterior damage which we thought might be from the Blitz.
The only preserved and working London Underground tube train (38ts) passes through Wapping station on the now former East London Line on Sunday 16 December 2007 headed by DM 11012
This statue is situated outside the police headquarters at the corner of Liver Street , Wapping , in Liverpool .
Officially entitled " The Great Escape " this sculpture was fashioned in rope before being cast in bronze. It is an anatomically correct horse fifteen feet high and weighing four tons. At the horse’s tail a length of rope extends to the ground where a life-size sculpture of a man steps upon the rope 'forcing the horse to rear and apparently unravel itself in a bid for freedom'. This scene is said to reflect man's efforts to free himself of slavery. Edward Cronshaw is an English sculptor who works exclusively in natural materials - wood, stone, fruit, bone - before making bronze casts of his creations. Cronshaw was raised near Pendle in a family home of such antiquity that a local hill bears the same name, Cronshaw's Seat. He trained as a joiner and furniture maker before attending St. Martin's School of Art in London. Joining a group of artists at Dean Clough near Hebden Bridge, he was first acclaimed as a sculptor when he won the competition for this sculpture. The commission paid for improvements to his studio enabling casting of such massive works. His largest is perhaps the twenty foot high statue of Giai, for Boot’s headquarters in Nottingham.
A tiny Alley next the 'Town of Ramsgate' pub leading directly out to the river Thames. It is where pirates such as Captain Kidd (another local pub is named after him) took their last walk, before being hanged from the gallows that used to stand here. Once again, initially posted in Guess Where London.
RD11669. Wapping Station in East London, opened in 1869 by the East London Railway. It is situated at the north end of the Thames Tunnel which was build by Marc Brunel and his son Isambard during 1825 to 1843 although there was a seven year break in construction while further funds were raised.
Although planned as a road tunnel, there were insufficient funds to build the access ramps so it remained a foot tunnel with access by spiral staircases. The access to Wapping Station is via the north access shaft and although there are still stairs leading down to the platforms, there is also a lift.
It was taken over by the East London Railway in 1865 and opened as a railway tunnel in 1869, thus providing a rail link between north and south London. In 1933 the Thames Tunnel became part of the London Transport underground system although main line freight trains still used it until 1962; it now forms part of the London Overground network and pictures on the walls depict the station and the tunnel in earlier times.
This one shows it in the days when it was part of London Transport's Metropolitan Line with a train of 'F' Stock approaching on the northbound line while a freight train disappears towards the south.
Wednesday, 15th July, 2015. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
Brunels tunnels under the Thames seen from Wapping Station. (London Overground/old East London Line)
RD11677. Wapping Station in East London, opened in 1869 by the East London Railway. It is situated at the north end of the Thames Tunnel which was build by Marc Brunel and his son Isambard during 1825 to 1843 although there was a seven year break in construction while further funds were raised.
Although planned as a road tunnel, there were insufficient funds to build the access ramps so it remained a foot tunnel with access by spiral staircases. The access to Wapping Station is via the north access shaft and although there are still stairs leading down to the platforms, there is also a lift.
It was taken over by the East London Railway in 1865 and opened as a railway tunnel in 1869, thus providing a rail link between north and south London. In 1933 the Thames Tunnel became part of the London Transport underground system although main line freight trains still used it until 1962; it now forms part of the London Overground network.
Wednesday, 15th July, 2015. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
RD11671. Wapping Station in East London, opened in 1869 by the East London Railway. It is situated at the north end of the Thames Tunnel which was build by Marc Brunel and his son Isambard during 1825 to 1843 although there was a seven year break in construction while further funds were raised.
Although planned as a road tunnel, there were insufficient funds to build the access ramps so it remained a foot tunnel with access by spiral staircases. The access to Wapping Station is via the north access shaft and although there are still stairs leading down to the platforms, there is also a lift.
It was taken over by the East London Railway in 1865 and opened as a railway tunnel in 1869, thus providing a rail link between north and south London. In 1933 the Thames Tunnel became part of the London Transport underground system although main line freight trains still used it until 1962; it now forms part of the London Overground network and pictures on the walls depict the station and the tunnel in earlier times.
This one shows it in the days when it was part of London Transport's Metropolitan Line with a train of 'F' Stock approaching on the northbound line while a freight train disappears towards the south.
Wednesday, 15th July, 2015. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
Wharf, Wapping, 1981
29g-25: wharf,street, derelict, Tower Hamlets,
I wondered why this section of wall where two demolished buildings met had been left here on Wapping High St, left for at least a season for the buddleia (or buddhlea) to grow out from it. Linnaeus got the spelling wrong in his Species Plantarum when he named this after English botanist Reverend Adam Buddle (1662–1715) but according to Wikipedia, the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature requires it to be spelt Buddleja, following Linnaeus. The 'j' was apparently a symbol commonly used for a 'long i'.
But rather than the shrub, I think I was more interested in the brickwork, with its small circular orifice, bricked up doorways and other oddities including the two cross ends of the bracing struts of the no longer standing building behind. Both sloping edges of the brick and the left vertical edge have also been covered with mortar for protection, unlike the ragged broken brick at the bottom and top right. I wondered if this brick had been left free-standing for many years, perhaps even since the area was heavily bombed in the war.
Building work was obviously going on behind these joined walls with what I think is an ORU on-site concrete mixer. The road sign (with E1 for some reason painted out) was I think probably opposite Clave St.
Although I can't remember having exhibited this image as a photograph, it was one I produced as a screen print in an edition of probably around 30 copies of which I probably have one or two left somewhere. It will have involved perhaps 5 or 6 printings with different colour inks (transparent and opaque), starting with a mid-tone and then printing in shadows and highlights from tonal separations with some blocking out of areas, and was a long and complex process.
Although I prefer the photograph, screen prints were definitely more saleable. I still have the home-built vacuum press and printing frame (bought, but stored in the rigid carrying case I made for it) in the loft but haven't used it for over 20 years. Photography is far more interesting
Lane in Wapping. Ilford 400 (can't remember whether Delta or HP5 but I wouldn't know the difference anyway). Sun and cloud kind of a day.
Olympus Trip 35
See also:
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This and many other of my photographs are featured in my book "London, Portrait of a City, 1950 to 1962" (Allan Hailstone, publ. Amberley Publishing), together with the story of how I came to photograph them and my memories of past London.
Wapping Overground station, previously it was part of London Underground, being the East London branch of the Metropolitan Line.
Wapping, like Rotherhithe and other former East London Line Underground stations, have been transformed into Overground stations. This being part of a new circular train route linking north and south London.
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RD11665. Wapping Station in East London, opened in 1869 by the East London Railway. It is situated at the north end of the Thames Tunnel which was build by Marc Brunel and his son Isambard during 1825 to 1843 although there was a seven year break in construction while further funds were raised.
Although planned as a road tunnel, there were insufficient funds to build the access ramps so it remained a foot tunnel with access by spiral staircases. The access to Wapping Station is via the north access shaft and although there are still stairs leading down to the platforms, there is also a lift.
It was taken over by the East London Railway in 1865 and opened as a railway tunnel in 1869, thus providing a rail link between north and south London. In 1933 the Thames Tunnel became part of the London Transport underground system although main line freight trains still used it until 1962; it now forms part of the London Overground network and pictures on the walls depict the station and the tunnel in earlier times. This one depicts the tunnel's days as a pedestrian tunnel.
Wednesday, 15th July, 2015. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
Trierer Burg, Schlussstein mit dem Wappen der von Breidbach zu Bürresheim an einer Arkade des Kapellenbaus
Schloss Bürresheim, Sankt Johann (bei Mayen), August 2014
Erstmalig 1157 erwähnt ist Schloss Bürresheim gemeinsam mit Burg Eltz und der Burg Lissingen die einzige Burganlage in der Eifel, die niemals erobert oder verwüstet wurde.
Die heutige Anlage ist im 15. Jahrhundert aus zwei benachbarten Burgen entstanden, der sog. "Kölner Burg" (im Besitz des Erzbistums Köln) und der "Trierer Burg" (Erzbistum Trier).
Nach dem Ausbau der Trierer Burg durch die Familie von Breidbach ab 1659 wurde die Kölner Burg nur noch als Wirtschaftshof genutzt und verfiel schließlich. Sie ist heute nur noch als Ruine erhalten.
Die Trierer Burg wurde von 1659 bis 1700 zum barocken Wohnschloss aus- und umgebaut.
Bereits 1683 entstand an der Südwestseite des Schlosses ein französischer Terrassengarten im Stil des Barock, der in seiner heutigen Form 1952 rekonstruiert wurde.
Wapping Road School, Bradford 1877 - 2000
Business As Usual
This important and historic school building has fallen into serious disrepair because of a protracted debate over its future between the owners Sphinx Commercial Ltd, and Council planners. An outline planning application for turning the Grade II listed building into apartments was submitted in 2004, before it was sold, but that has not yet been turned into reality. Since being in planning limbo for four years it has been struck by arsonists, thieves and vandals on several occasions. As a result, the school’s slate roof has been gutted and most of its interior features destroyed. It is now on the council’s Listed Building ‘At Risk’ register.
A Remarkable Heritage
Wapping Road School, built in 1877, was a ‘Board School’ under Bradford's very own W.E. Forster's Education Act of 1870.
The school’s distinguished 123-year history saw it play a leading role in the development of state education. More than a century ago, the school created national and international headlines with the help of education campaigners Margaret and Rachel McMillan and their push to improve the lot of children in the state system. Their influence helped bring the country’s first school swimming pool to Wapping Road school and nearby Green Lane School in 1899.
Bradford was a grim place for the poor in the 19th Century, with a lot of extreme poverty. Children suffered in spite of the sacrifice by their parents. Also at this time, children were brought up from London workhouses to work in the mills. This is how the area of Wapping in Bradford got it’s name. Dirt and disease was a problem.
Right up to the early part of this century some children were ‘sewn up’ for the winter – wrapped in flannel which was then sewn into place and not removed until the warm weather came. Some parents thought that this was necessary because there was not enough food to keep a child warm otherwise.
Lots More Including Original Archive Images here.
on valentine's we had a really romantic dinner at a posh restaurant... not. instead we went all the way down to wapping to see the brunel tunnel, the 1st underwater tunnel built. evah.
it failed as a cargo transport system first, so it was used for the people to have fun and walk around. the arches which sheltered the stalls are still there. well worth the visit.
a big thank you to dave who got us the tickets.
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