TQ3480 : No ships - just houses!
Stepney, Tower Hamlets, Great Britain

No ships - just houses!
The old London Docks at Wapping were built in London in 1805. Twenty-five years later they were out of date as larger ships were unable to negotiate the entrance from the River Thames. Yet it wasn't until the 1960s that the docks were finally closed. Along came the London Docklands Development Corporation and drained the docks to create a new housing estate. Today, it is difficult to imagine that this was an 18th century dock; homes now overlook narrow canals which have replaced the wider expanse of water.
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- TQ3480, 30 images (find more images nearby)
- Photographer
- David Williams (find more nearby)
- Image classification
- Geograph
- Date Taken
- Saturday, 12 August, 2006
- Submitted
- Sunday, 16 September, 2007
- Category
- Dockland redevelopment (find more nearby)
- Subject Location
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OSGB36:
TQ 345 804 [100m precision]
WGS84: 51:30.4076N 0:3.7690W - Photographer Location
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OSGB36:
TQ 346 803 - View Direction
- Northwest (about 315 degrees)
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