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In April 1980 the Farm registered as a Provident Society; it has now become a community benefit society. [3] In June 1986 the farm was re-located to its present site, a new 2.2-acre (8,900 m 2) site on the River Thames at South Wharf. During the working lifetime of the docks South Wharf formed part of the largest shipyard on the Rotherhithe ...
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
The San Francisco Historical Society was founded in 1988 by historian Charles A. Fracchia. [1]In February 2002, the San Francisco Historical Society merged with the Museum of the City of San Francisco to create the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, [2] which the San Francisco municipal government recognized as the official historical museum of San Francisco. [3]
The port of San Francisco boomed and expanded very rapidly to a California state census population of about 32,000 in 1852 (San Francisco—the largest city in the state—U.S. California Census of 1850 was burned in one of the frequent fires in San Francisco [60]).
The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard was a United States Navy shipyard in San Francisco, California, located on 638 acres (258 ha) of waterfront at Hunters Point in the southeast corner of the city. Originally, Hunters Point was a commercial shipyard established in 1870, consisting of two graving docks.
With the advent of containerization and San Francisco's limited real estate, Oakland became the primary Bay Area port in the 1960s. The finger piers located along the northern waterfront quickly became outdated. San Francisco made an attempt to retain cargo capabilities by building new facilities in the southeast corner of the city.
Central Pacific ferry El Capitan was the largest ferry on San Francisco Bay when built in 1868. [5] Ferry Berkeley (served 1898–1958) at the San Diego Maritime Museum. The first railroad ferries on San Francisco Bay were established by the San Francisco and Oakland Railroad and the San Francisco and Alameda Railroad (SF&A), which were taken over by the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) in 1870 ...
[clarification needed] The northern half of the Marina is a shoreline of the San Francisco Bay, and features the Marina Green, a park adjacent to the municipal boat marina from which the neighborhood takes its name. Much of the Marina is built on former landfill, [3] [4] and is susceptible to soil liquefaction during strong earthquakes.