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Map c1872, showing Victoria Docks, now Royal Victoria Dock, Bow Creek and the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company Map 1908, showing Canning Town, Royal Victoria Dock, part of Royal Albert Dock. Although, the structure was in place in the year 1850, it was opened in 1855, on a previously uninhabited area of the Plaistow Marshes.
Royal Docks is an area in the London Borough of Newham in the London Docklands in East London, England.. The area is named after three docks – the Royal Albert Dock, the Royal Victoria Dock and the King George V Dock.
The Royal Victoria Dock Bridge is a signature high-level footbridge crossing the Royal Victoria Dock in the Docklands area of east London designed by London-based ...
Map 1908, showing Canning Town, Royal Victoria Dock, part of Royal Albert Dock. Both redevelopment phases lie on the southside of the dock, and extended to the North Woolwich Road/Docklands Light Railway: Phase1 (Britannia Village) is the west; Phase 2 (Silvertown Quays) lies to the east, centred around the Pontoon Dock (marked Graving Dock)
The opening of the Royal Victoria Dock in 1855 accelerated the development of the area [3] creating employment and a need to house dock workers and their families. New settlements around the dock developed, starting with Canning Town and Hallsville (Hallsville generall being seen as part of Canning Town), and later the areas now known as Custom House and Silvertown.
The Docklands in 1882 - a time of great expansion for the Port of London. Much of the Port's operations have now moved further downstream. This is a list of about 680 former or extant wharves, docks, piers, terminals, etc. of the Port of London, the majority of which lie on the Tideway of the River Thames, listed from upstream to downstream.
The dock, which was designed by Sir Alexander Rendel as an extension to the Victoria Dock, was constructed by Lucas and Aird and completed in 1880. [1] Two dry docks and machine shops were established to the south at the western end for ship repairs by R & H Green & Silley Weir (later River Thames Shiprepairs Ltd).
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