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Hay's Wharf may refer to: . Hay's Wharf, an enclosed dock building now known as Hay's Galleria; Hay's Wharf Business Services, formerly part of Hays plc; Hay's Wharf Cartage Company, which owned the removal company Pickfords and travel agents Thomas Cook
Hay's Galleria. Hay's Galleria is a mixed use building in the London Borough of Southwark situated on the south bank of the River Thames featuring offices, restaurants, shops, and flats. Originally a warehouse and associated wharf (Hay's Wharf) for the port of London, it was redeveloped in the 1980s. It is a Grade II listed structure.
The name can be traced to Alexander Hay, who acquired a brewhouse there in 1651. It was redeveloped as a 'wharf', in fact an enclosed dock, in 1856 and renamed Hay's Wharf. It was rebuilt after the 1861 Tooley Street fire and still stands; it was converted in the 1980s into a shopping and restaurant area known as Hay's Galleria. [4]
St Olaf House was built between 1928 and 1932 by Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel as a headquarters for the Hay's Wharf Company. [1] [2] [3] The house was built on the site of the demolished St Olave's Church, Southwark, [2] [3] in the art deco style. [4] The building is made out of Portland stone. [2] [5] It is six storeys high, T-shaped, and ...
Hay Wharf is situated along the Marsamxett side of the Floriana Lines. The wharf is located between Msida Bastion and La Vittoria Bastion, and is overlooked by the Polverista Curtain, a long casemated curtain wall completed in 1722. [2] The wharf was probably named "Hay Wharf" since it was used to store forage in the 19th century. [3]
Traffic sign: Quayside or river bank ahead. Unprotected quayside or riverbank. A wharf commonly comprises a fixed platform, often on pilings.Commercial ports may have warehouses that serve as interim storage: where it is sufficient a single wharf with a single berth constructed along the land adjacent to the water is normally used; where there is a need for more capacity multiple wharves, or ...
Pickford's Volvo FL614 van. Pickfords is a moving company based in the United Kingdom, part of Pickfords Move Management Ltd. . The business is believed to have been founded in the 17th century, making it one of the UK's oldest functioning companies, although the similar Shore Porters Society was founded earlier.
The name means "southern defensive work" and is formed from the Old English sūþ (south) and weorc (work). In Old English , Surrey means "southern district (or the men of the southern district)", [ 6 ] so the change from "southern district work" to the latter "southern work" may be an evolution based on the elision of the single syllable ge ...