A three mile wander from Billingsgate to home, via Canary Wharf

[Wapping]

From the basin, we can follow the what is now an ornamental canal, through Wapping Woods and past Tobacco Dock on our right, to near enough home. You can still see evidence of the former dock and its connecting canal, in the stone walls and mooring posts left behind:



These last pictures are all located on what was the London Dock, which was filled in and redeveloped in the 1980’s. I have taken a picture of a framed map I have and a Google map of today. You can see how the oblong shape of the London Dock is filled by the redevelopment:




The end.

London Docks — London's Docks

The building of the London Docks at Wapping transformed a small riverside village into one of the busiest docks in London. By the late 18th Century London had become one of the busiest ports in the world, with the bustling maritime industry limited to quays and wharves along the River Thames. Recor

londonsdocks.com

 

[LOLGEOFF]

You want to watch those Swans, they can break a man's arm, my granny told me!

The building rate It's the same this side of the river, it's like an Arms Race between the Developers and the Civil Engineers, trying to get rid of the by products.

 

[Wapping]

You want to watch those Swans, they can break a man's arm, my granny told me!

Second only to a crocodile, I hear.