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Surrey Docks Farm is a working city farm in the heart of London. [1] It occupies a 2.2-acre (8,900 m 2 ) site on the south bank of the River Thames in Rotherhithe . Activities
Heinkel He 111 bomber over the Surrey Commercial Docks in South London and Wapping and the Isle of Dogs in the East End of London on 7 September 1940: At the Commercial Dock, Rotherhithe, there were multi-storey warehouses designed to store grain and seeds. Greenland Dock, Surrey Quays in the 1990s: Greenland Dock Pier and view of Canary Wharf
South Dock is one of two surviving docks in the former Surrey Commercial Docks in Rotherhithe, London, England.It was built in 1807–1811 just south of the larger Greenland Dock, to which it is connected by a channel now known as Greenland Cut; it also has a lock giving access to the River Thames.
Surrey Quays is a largely residential area of Rotherhithe in south-east London, occupied until 1970 by the Surrey Commercial Docks.The precise boundaries of the area are somewhat amorphous, but it is generally considered to comprise the southern half of the Rotherhithe peninsula from Canada Water to South Dock; electorally, Surrey Docks is the eastern half of the peninsula.
Rotherhithe (/ ˈ r ɒ ð ər h aɪ ð / RODH-ər-hydhe) is a district of South London, England, and part of the London Borough of Southwark.It is on a peninsula on the south bank of the Thames, facing Wapping, Shadwell and Limehouse on the north bank, with the Isle of Dogs to the east.
A 1959 view of South Street in Dorking, Surrey. Nemesis Inferno at Thorpe Park in the north-west of the county Lawns at RHS Garden, Wisley , north-east of Guildford
The first of the Georgian docks was the West India (opened in 1802), followed by the London (1805), the East India (also 1805), the Surrey (1807), the Regent's Canal Dock (1820), St Katharine (1828) and the West India South (1829). The Victorian docks were mostly further east, comprising the Royal Victoria (1855), Millwall (1868) and Royal ...
The station is a wholly new building on a derelict site formerly occupied by Albion Dock, part of the old Surrey Commercial Docks. [9] The station was one of the first designed for the Jubilee line Extension. The contract for the station's construction was initially awarded to Wimpey in 1993 for £21.3 million and was later taken over by Tarmac ...