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St Saviour's Dock, looking north toward the Thames. The street Shad Thames is named as such in John Rocque's 1747 map of London. [1] The name may be a corruption of 'St John-at-Thames', a reference to the St John's Church which once stood south-west of the street, where the present-day London City Mission is located [2] Alternatively it may be from shad fish, which could be found in the Thames.
One of those grandsons, John Clutton, moved to London in 1837 to found the London business which today trades as Cluttons. [ citation needed ] John's brothers remained in Sussex to concentrate on the land agency business, which continues today as RH & RW Clutton.
St Saviour's Dock (View North to Thames) St Saviour's Dock (South to Dock Head) A seal sits on a bird feeding platform in the dock in 2010. St Saviour's Dock is an inlet-style dock in London, England, on the south bank of the River Thames, 420 metres east of Tower Bridge. It forms the eastern end of the Shad Thames embankment that starts at ...
Cluttons LLP is an International firm of chartered surveyors and property consultants based in Central London and operating throughout the UK. Established in 1765, [citation needed] Cluttons is one of the oldest established firms of Chartered Surveyors in the UK, and played an important role during the establishment of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. [1]
Here the inlet divides the riverside districts of Shad Thames and Jacob's Island. The River Neckinger is a reduced subterranean river that rises in Southwark and flows approximately 2.5 kilometres (1.6 miles) through south London to St Saviour's Dock where it enters the Thames.
Butler's Wharf is an English historic building at Shad Thames on the south bank of the River Thames, just east of London's Tower Bridge, now housing luxury flats and restaurants. Lying between Shad Thames and the Thames Path, it overlooks both the bridge and St Katharine Docks on the north side of the river. Butler's Wharf is also used as a ...
The most notorious of the slums was known as Jacob's Island, with the boundary approximately the confluence of the Thames and subterranean River Neckinger, at St Saviour's Dock across from Shad Thames, to the west, a tidal ditch just west of George Row to the east, and another tidal ditch just north of London Street (now Wolseley Street) to the ...
André Derain painted four works of the Thames, and his 1906 The Pool of London is in the UK Tate collection. Derain was a leading Fauvist and had been sent to London by his dealer to produce Thames views in the Fauvist style. [6] A British film, Pool of London (1951), is a crime drama set within the Pool.