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Survey of London
… Wapping, the Isle of Dogs, Rotherhithe, and St Katharine's, his preference being for Wapping. Though Vaughan thought … forward an alternative, if only as a spoiler. 7 The City's plans were hurriedly prepared by George Dance (17411825), … to eight sugar warehouses with rum vaults on the north quay and single coffee warehouses to east and west. There …
Survey of London
… By the late eighteenth century the increase in London's trade, both overseas and coastal, was producing … a few months, from July to October. The merchant community's exasperation with the slowness of operations in the Port … secure boundaries and ample quayside warehousing. London's enclosed wet docks in 1838, wiht the dates of opening The …
Survey of London
… and Housing The Ledger Building (Dock Offices), North Quay, Import Dock. Early plans for the West India Docks … difficult to place, 752 or of 181213, when Milligan's statue was put up just to the south and the fire-engine … with its design; if in 181213, then it was John Rennie's responsibility. It is in keeping with Rennie's work …
Survey of London
… lime kilns, was on the Limehouse site of Obadiah Reeves's ship-breaking yard. 866 Another steam engine pumped out the … Basin steam-engine house was converted into a gatekeeper's house in 1808. 869 Impounding Stations. Silting has been a … efficient mode. 882 Armstrong's proposals for hydraulic quay cranes and warehouse lifts at the north, east and west …
Survey of London
… angles were defined by projecting piers. On John Rennie's advice, cornice-caps to the piers were replaced with … 698 The outer boundary ditch was an idea of Ralph Walker's. It was made in 1802 by Holmes and Bough, to Walker's … 705 Security was increased with the development of the Rum Quay in 181618. A fence was erected on top of the Rum Quay …
Survey of London
… designed for the storage and handling of goods. London's need for secure, convenient and regularly disposed dockside … sugar warehouses and linking blocks built on the north quay of the Import Dock in 18003 formed a stately and imposing row. These were London's first dockside warehouses, and one of the great monuments …
Survey of London
… The West India Docks The buildings: sheds Sheds North Quay Sheds, Import Dock. Early plans for the West India Docks … 1805 and on the east quay in 1811. 580 The north quay shed's timber posts decayed rapidly, and John Rennie urged their … that there were too few such sheds in London. 586 The PLA's programme of improvements of 1911 included transit sheds of …
Survey of London
… warehouses Warehouses Nos 24 and 68 Warehouses, North Quay, Import Dock. In 1799 Ralph Walker projected ten large … and may have taken his warehouse designs from George Dance's preliminary work (see page 251). 401 The dock company was not content to leave warehouse design in Walker's hands. On 1 November 1799 it announced a competition for …
Survey of London
… was by far the biggest dock ever built. 197 Ralph Walker's plans for the West India Docks prepared in late 1799 … from about 6ft below high water (Trinity High Water) to quay level, about 6ft above high water. The deeper parts of … gritstone, cheaper than granite, for the copings. Jessop's specification for the walls was approved in January 1801, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… and Tetford, which last name it had in the Conqueror's time, ted being the natural abbreviation of deod and tet of … Thetford, and that only, must be the Sitomagus. Dr. Plot. Gibson's Explanation of the names of Places, at the end of … the Hebrew and Saxon Languages, Lond. 1650. Mr. Cambden. Gibson, in the aforecited place. The Atlas, &c. Another …