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… the north by the perimeter wall of the East India Export Dock and on the west by Blackwall Way. The southern and … and Blackwall Railway and the southern arm of East India Dock Wall Road (fig. 239). Once part of Poplar East Marsh, … mast-house built by John Perry in 17801 for Brunswick Dock (see page 563). This stood within the area later …
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… begin until 1830. Here the land belonged to the West India Dock Company, whose rerouting of Preston's Road in 18279 had … common sewer which formed the boundary with the West India Dock Company's property, they were not culs-de-sac, being … to just four, all of them culs-de-sac, terminating at the dock company's boundary ditch. In the course of development …
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… The tunnel route was planned to connect East India Dock Road with Woolwich Road, crossing the Thames between … the vehicles using the tunnel during the first weeks were dock and railway vans, and the new crossing became popular … of Greenwich Marshes, and the proximity of the East India Dock Gateway on the north side no doubt inspired Blashill to …
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… restricting it to a comparatively narrow strip between the dock company's land on the west and the river and Blackwall … by a row of small houses built in the 1880s. Canal Dock Yard and Glen Terrace area. Plans based on the Ordnance … City. (The freehold subsequently passed to the West India Dock Company when it bought the City Canal in 1829.) The …
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… Southern Millwall Drunken Dock and the Land of Promise Drunken Dock and the Land of Promise In the early eighteenth century … A windmill was built at the north end, beside Drunken Dock, about 1722, together with a house and granaries. They …
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… from near the Chapel House to the inlet called Drunken Dock or the Great Barnfield Basin (fig. 175). 79 The purchase … successive owners of ground on the south side of Drunken Dock, sought long leases of the small patch of waste land … Tindalls' Cooperage. In 1855 Messrs Tindall of Tindall's Dock took a 63-year lease of a site at the back of Elizabeth …
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… when the site was acquired for the Millwall Dock Entrance a few years later. 5 Pierhead Cottages (Nos 314 … as much to provide a security presence at the Millwall Dock entrance as to accommodate dock company employees (Plate 83a). The easternmost cottage …
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… that a serious delay could occur if the bridges over the dock entrances were raised when the engines from the West India Dock Road station were responding to an emergency in the …