ROTHERHITHE,WHARFS & DOCKS.

Surrey Docks, Canals and Wharfs
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Re: ROTHERHITHE,WHARFS & DOCKS.

Postby kiwi » Wed Jun 06, 2018 10:35 pm

Globe Wharf 1937 was built in c.1883 by A.P. Keen and Co. as a granary, handling wheat, barley and rice. In 1924 Globe Wharf was converted for storing and milling rice by Thames Rice Milling.
Rotherhithe Street, Globe Wharf 1937 X.jpg
Globe Wharf 1937
Globe Upper Globe Wharf, with one of the rice chutes 1937  X.jpg
Globe/Upper Globe Wharf, with one of the rice chutes 1937
GLOBE WHARF,2017  X.jpg
Globe Wharf is one of the finest listed warehouses left in the docks. King & Queen Wharf is to the right. 2017.
Rotherhithe Street, Globe Wharf c1988.   X.png
Rotherhithe Street.
Rotherhithe Street, Globe Wharf, how times have changed.   X..jpg
Rotherhithe Street, Globe Wharf, how times have changed.
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Re: ROTHERHITHE,WHARFS & DOCKS.

Postby kiwi » Tue Jun 26, 2018 4:39 am

When it was complete, Norway dock was connected to Greenland Dock, with no independent access to the Thames. All vessels using Norway Dock would first enter Greenland Dock and then enter through Norway Cut, the connection passage between the two.
Norway Dock, with Lady Dock on the other side of the bridge, both floating timber. 1876. X.jpg
Norway Dock, with Lady Dock on the other side of the bridge, both floating timber. 1876.
Now crossing the Norway Dock entrance from Greenland Dock X.jpg
Now crossing the Norway Dock entrance from Greenland Dock, this bridge originally crossed South Dock, where it was established in 1855. It was moved by the LDDC in 1987.
Norway Dock, today is occupied by the development known as The Lakes. X.jpg
Today Norway Dock is occupied by the development known as The Lakes. The residential buildings themselves, erected between 1988 and 1996.

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Re: ROTHERHITHE,WHARFS & DOCKS.

Postby kiwi » Fri Jun 29, 2018 4:41 am

River Emergency Service 1939-41. The steamer Cliveden which was converted into an ambulance ship, seen here moored at Cherry Garden Pier..jpg
River Emergency Service 1939-41. The steamer Cliveden which was converted into an ambulance ship, seen here moored at Cherry Garden Pier.

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Re: ROTHERHITHE,WHARFS & DOCKS.

Postby kiwi » Wed Jul 04, 2018 3:36 am

ROTHERHITHE STREET..jpg
ROTHERHITHE STREET 2017, now flats..jpg
2017, now flats
Rotherhithe Street ,the granary at Canada Wharf in about 1860, seen from the river.jpg
Rotherhithe Street, the granary at Canada Wharf in about 1860, seen from the river

Cuckold’s Point, Rotherhithe, where Columbia Wharf is today, Cops Execution dock.  X.png
Cuckold’s Point, Rotherhithe, where Columbia Wharf is today.
Rotherhithe Street 2020. Alley which led to Horn Stairs and Cuckold’s Point. Canada Wharf right and site of Columbia Wharf left.  X.png
Rotherhithe Street 2020. Alley which led to Horn Stairs and Cuckold’s Point. Canada Wharf right and site of Columbia Wharf left.
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Re: ROTHERHITHE,WHARFS & DOCKS.

Postby kiwi » Tue Aug 07, 2018 4:47 am

Greenland Dock,Rotherhithe..jpg
Surrey Commercial Dock, Greenland Dock,.jpg
Surrey Commercial Dock, Greenland Dock >>>>>>>

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Re: ROTHERHITHE,WHARFS & DOCKS.

Postby kiwi » Thu Sep 13, 2018 10:40 pm

Sailing vessels where called Onkers. This picture shows short planks being unloaded from an Onker onto a lighter at the Surrey Commercial Docks. In the London docks, Onkers were the last sailing ships to compete with the reign of steam.
SURREY COMMERCIAL DOCKS.jpg

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Re: ROTHERHITHE,WHARFS & DOCKS.

Postby kiwi » Sat Sep 15, 2018 4:46 am

One of the last lighters laden with timber entering the Surrey Canal from the Greenland Dock in June 1970, when most of the canal and the Surrey Commercial Docks had closed.
Surrey Canal from the Greenland Dock in June 1970.jpg

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Re: ROTHERHITHE,WHARFS & DOCKS.

Postby kiwi » Wed Nov 07, 2018 2:24 am

Cochin Upper Wharf, Rotherhithe. Derelict building also shows part of 59 Rotherhithe Street c1950.
Rotherhithe Street, Cochin Upper Wharf, Rotherhithe. Derelict building also shows part of 59 Rotherhithe Street c1950. 59 Yardley’s Wharf Ltd.  X.png
London Street Listings in 1921.
61 & 63 Green Geo & Henry, Wharfingers (Cochin Upper Wharf), 59 Yardley’s Wharf Ltd.

Rotherhithe Street..jpg
ROTHERHITHE STREET.

Rotherhithe Street, Bermondsey, Yardley's Wharf and Matthew's Wharves.Yardley's Wharf is derelict and there is a truck in front of Matthew's Wharf with a sign 'Free Trade Wharf Co. Ltd'. These wharves no longer exist. They were destroyed in an air-raid in December 1940 and the site on which they stood is now part of King's Stairs Gardens.
Rotherhithe Street, Bermondsey, Yardley's Wharf and Matthew's Wharves, now part of King's Stairs Gardens.  X.png
Rotherhithe Street no longer runs along here, this is looking from Fulford Street c2016 and roughly where Yardley’s Wharf and Matthew’s Wharves  once stood. X.png
Rotherhithe Street no longer runs along here, this is looking from Fulford Street c2016 and King Gardens. Roughly where Yardley’s Wharf and Matthew’s Wharves once stood.

Rotherhithe Street shuttered concrete river wall repair below Yardley's Wharf 2018.   X.png
Rotherhithe Street shuttered concrete river wall repair below Yardley's Wharf 2018.
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Re: ROTHERHITHE,WHARFS & DOCKS.

Postby kiwi » Thu Nov 15, 2018 9:58 pm

In the 1850s Prince's Wharf was the timber-built base of a barge and boat builder, but by 1873 the entire Thames frontage at this point was made up of a series of wharves of varying sizes. By 1937 Prince's Wharf was a six-storey brick-built wharf next to Gordon's Wharf and linked to it by walkways. Both had been operated as granaries by Gillman and Spencer, which specialized in landing and bagging loose cereals and the manufacture of flaked maize and brewers' preservatives, but when the company was purchased by Pauls Malt Ltd in 1902 they also manufactured a product called Kositos, an animal feed.
PRINCE’S WHARF,ROTHERHITHE.jpg
The Thames facing Princes Tower,which at some point seems to have been renamed Riverside Apartments, sits on the site of the old Princes Wharf and Prince's Stairs. at the start of Elephant Lane..jpg
The Thames facing Princes Tower,which at some point seems to have been renamed Riverside Apartments, sits on the site of the old Princes Wharf and Prince's Stairs. at the start of Elephant Lane.

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Re: ROTHERHITHE,WHARFS & DOCKS.

Postby kiwi » Sun Dec 23, 2018 3:28 am

Surrey Dock at Surrey Basin at the time of.jpg
Surrey Dock at Surrey Basin at the time of the addition of hydraulic lock gates in the 1870s
Surrey Docks, View from Surrey entrance pierhead across Gerhard Wharf, c1930. X..png
Surrey Docks, View from Surrey entrance pierhead across Gerhard Wharf, c1930.
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