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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.
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.
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.
Russia Dock Woodland is a long narrow park in Rotherhithe, London, created by the infilling of one of the former Surrey Commercial Docks. The former Russia Dock was originally used for the importing of softwood timber from Norway, Russia and Sweden. Known as "deal wood", it was mostly used for newsprint and for manufacturing furniture.
The rail link was lost in the early 1960s, in a period when all usage of the Surrey Docks was in decline following the move to larger vessels and to containerised transport of goods. Eventually this led to the Deptford docks being filled in and the area being redeveloped, with the emphasis being on housing. Main article : Surrey Commercial Docks
The show was presented in a large empty warehouse, the East Country Yard building, in South Dock, Rotherhithe within the 460-acre (1.9 km 2) Surrey Commercial Docks complex. [4] The docks were closed in 1969, and by 1990 were being redeveloped by a plethora of property development companies.