The 1871 census 'captured' Antony Sederman on the ship Queen of the Clippers, in the Pool of London. Nicholson's Wharf, and Billingsgate Market (as in the photo above, initially built in 1822, then a new building in 1877) ran from London Bridge to Tower Bridge on the north bank of the Thames. Fresh Wharf next door (left) was noted for its cargoes of oranges ready in time for Christmas!
Nicholson's Wharf was named after its owner in the 19th century. It seems to have been originally called Buttolph's Gate. In the 1930s, these two wharves were occupied by Nicholson's Wharves Ltd, who handled dried and green fruit, canned goods and general Mediterranean produce. Billingsgate was London's principal trading dock until the 18th century. The dock was filled in when the new fish market was built in the 19th century, although the map below shows it as a dock. The railings in the corner of the photo of Michael walking past the site, below again, belong to Billingsgate market; the building is a large glass building, anonymous!.
Nicholson's Wharf was named after its owner in the 19th century. It seems to have been originally called Buttolph's Gate. In the 1930s, these two wharves were occupied by Nicholson's Wharves Ltd, who handled dried and green fruit, canned goods and general Mediterranean produce. Billingsgate was London's principal trading dock until the 18th century. The dock was filled in when the new fish market was built in the 19th century, although the map below shows it as a dock. The railings in the corner of the photo of Michael walking past the site, below again, belong to Billingsgate market; the building is a large glass building, anonymous!.
"Sailortown" is the area of Wapping inhabited by the shipping trade from 18th century, and falls between the Ratcliffe Highway and the river. Narrow streets, high-rise warehouses, squalid lodgings, pubs, dens, fights, crime, death, prostitution, all the things that are typically found in dockland areas, of course! So the Museum of London Docklands walk was full of stories about these people. Pockets of rich men's riverside houses (Wapping PierHead, who'd have thought it was so elegant?) amid this gloom, so that they could keep an eye on what was coming up the river and down it, watching their ships, their goods, their profits coming into Shadwell Basin, St Katharine's Dock, Tobacco Dock, with a neat little canal (now) that once was a thrumming waterway between them all.
Wapping High Street and the Wapping Wall, once warehouses, now apartments for rich people again! And on its northern-most edge, St Paul's Shadwell, Well Close Square, the Sailors' Homes and Wilton's Music Hall... from last August's post A TALE OF THREE CHURCHES whilst I could not but tread in Antony's footsteps imagining the worst!
Wapping High Street and the Wapping Wall, once warehouses, now apartments for rich people again! And on its northern-most edge, St Paul's Shadwell, Well Close Square, the Sailors' Homes and Wilton's Music Hall... from last August's post A TALE OF THREE CHURCHES whilst I could not but tread in Antony's footsteps imagining the worst!