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… Marten, Robert Humphrey: deputy chairman, Commercial Dock Co.; broker, insurance, shipping; member, Protestant …
A Dictionary of London
… from the Wall of London and Bridewell Ditch west to Puddle Dock east and from the Thames north to the Wall of London, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… for a very large private yard for ship-building, and a wet-dock, once belonging to Mr. Perry: the former was purchased … applied to the same use; and the latter by the East India Dock Company, for the formation of their docks, which were … by a lofty wall, consist of an outer and an inner dock, communicating by locks and flood-gates; the entrance …
Survey of London
… the quayside masting-tower was sold to the East India Dock Company in 1803. It was replaced by a new mast-building … erected close to the north-east corner of the old wet dock (see fig. 210). Perhaps to compensate for the ground lost to the railway, the basin of the wet dock itself was partially filled in, and sawpits and a …
Survey of London
… part, including the late-eighteenthcentury Brunswick Dock, was bought by the East India Dock Company for its new Export Dock. In the late 1830s the northern area was sold after it …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… also a beacon-light, called the Basket-Rock light: a dry-dock was constructed in 1811. The custom-house here had …
A New History of London
… Mincing-lane, at the middle of Mark-lane, and at the Tower-dock. On Thursday by the blessing of God it was wholly beat …