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The entrance to London Docks in 1813

 

In the last few years of the eighteenth century and the first fifteen years of the nineteenth a large part of the parish of St John's Wapping was excavated for the new London Docks. Previously ships had crowded the ancient wharves along the Thames bank of London and were both a fire hazard and almost completely blocked any shipping along the river. By 1813 the new docks extended along the Thames almost to Ratcliffe Highway and were enclosed by a brick wall, lined with warehouses.

 

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