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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Butler's Wharf Building, 36 Shad Thames, London, SE1 2YE 2019 Boris Karloff (1887–1969) "William Henry Pratt alias Boris Karloff 1887–1969 Actor was born here" 36 Forest Hill Road Peckham Rye SE22 0RR 1998 Dr. Harold Moody (1882–1947) "Campaigner for Racial Equality lived and worked here" 164 Queens Road Peckham SE15 2HP 1995
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. What remains of the river is enclosed and runs underground and most of its narrow catchment has been diverted into other combined and surface water ...
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Horselydown, an area of Shad Thames in London; Southwark St John Horsleydown, ... St John Horsleydown, a former church in London This page was last edited on 25 ...