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The docks thrived up until the 1950s, despite suffering extremely severe bomb damage during the Second World War. A ship unloading in 1962 The abrupt collapse of commercial traffic in the Thames due to the introduction of shipping containers and coastal deep-water ports in the 1960s emptied the Pool and led to all of the wharves being closed ...
The Deptford area on a map owned in 1623 by John Evelyn, a resident of the area. Evelyn's house, Sayes Court, is at the bottom left. Above it is marked "The K's Ship Yard", the location of the expanding Deptford Dockyard: the "Long Store house" is shown, between the Great Dock and the Treasurer's House, and nearby is "the Storekeepers house and ...
The Docklands in 1882 - a time of great expansion for the Port of London. Much of the Port's operations have now moved further downstream. This is a list of about 680 former or extant wharves, docks, piers, terminals, etc. of the Port of London, the majority of which lie on the Tideway of the River Thames, listed from upstream to downstream.
It was shut down from 1830 to 1844 before being closed as a dockyard in 1869, [127] and is currently known as Convoys Wharf. From 1871 until the First World War it was the City of London Corporation's Foreign Cattle Market. In 1912, The Times reported that over 4 million head of live cattle, and sheep, had been landed. [citation needed]
Canary Wharf (view from the Thames), London, England, United Kingdom (2016) German Canary Wharf (Blick von der Themse), London, England, Vereinigtes Königreich (2016)
Convoys Wharf in Deptford is a former commercial wharf on the River Thames in London, currently awaiting redevelopment. It includes the site of Deptford Dockyard , built in the reign of King Henry VIII as one of the first Royal Dockyards .
Isle of Dogs as shown in John Rocque's Map of London and ten miles around, 1746, showing the area before development. The Isle of Dogs is a large peninsula bounded on three sides by a large meander in the River Thames in East London, England. It includes the Cubitt Town, Millwall and Canary Wharf districts.
The ordnance survey map for 1894/5 shows a dockyard branch North to the granary on Greenland Dock, and the 1913 map shows a branch added South running along the centre of Grove Street to the HM Victualling Yard, Deptford opposite Junction Road (which had its own internal tramway), and to the adjacent Foreign Cattle Market (under an act of 1869 ...