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Old and New London
… shore and the Wapping side was most important, as the wharves for the coasting trade of England lay chiefly on the …
Old and New London
… the river being so reduced into its present channel, and wharves being built along the line of wall towards the river. …
Survey of London
… on the design of the warehouses, the former visiting wharves to sketch 'Loop Holes, Heights and substances of … 12,200. 127 The extension of bonding privileges to private wharves, in 1853, led to the establishment of many new … as goods brought in to the docks could be lightered out to wharves free of charge. Additional competition came with the …
Survey of London
… of dutiable imports the 'legal quays' and 'sufferance wharves' were increasingly clogged and were unable to deal … that unloaded at the 'legal quays' and 'sufferance wharves', which had a very restricted frontage. The problems …
Survey of London
… a reserve. 888 Hydraulic cranage was extended to the wood wharves south of the Import Dock in 18634, and the works yard … iron cranes, with 20ft lifts and 22ft jibs, for the wood wharves in 1813 and 1817. Dupin described the West India Dock …
Survey of London
… shed', for unloading and sorting goods. From 1806 the wood wharves, for timber imports, were given open-sided sheds as … restrictions were loosened in favour of private riverside wharves, and the balance of demand at the enclosed docks … ensure adequate fire prevention at the docks and private wharves. The committee specified the alterations required in …
Survey of London
… Dock, areas that became known as the East and West Wood Wharves. Covered accommodation for wood was less a priority … was divided and re-erected at the inner ends of both wood wharves, to the east in 1810, and to the west in 1811 (see … 293). The work included brick walls to separate the wood wharves from the Rum Quay. 604 In 1818 cast-iron columns …
Survey of London
… but the provision of water frontage for these small wharves seems to have been its principal function in the …
A Dictionary of London
… the site of Leadenhall Market. Timberhithe Tenements and wharves in Timberhythe, otherwise called "Broken wharf," in …
A History of the County of Chester
… was developed by lessees at its northern end, close to wharves on the new channel of the Dee. 4 By the 1740s timber … poorlaw union workhouse was established south of the wharves, approached by a new road from outside the Watergate …