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East Greenwich gasometer, Blackwall Lane The 19th century gasometer frame in Blackwall Lane, just south of the tunnel entrance and the Millennium Dome (still to be built when this was taken). The framework made intriguing geometric patterns as we sailed down the river aboard the Thames barge ’Pudge’. Credit: Stephen Williams TUM image id: 1513897066 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Towers of the Emirates Air Line gondola lift cable car, from the north bank of the River Thames. Credit: Nick Cooper TUM image id: 1515421735 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Map of the Greenwich Peninsula and part of the Isle of Dogs (c.1872) Bugsby’s Marsh - the site of the O2 - was a particularly grim location being land to the south of Blackwall Point where executed criminals were hung in chains. Rather interestingly, the routes of roads of the Isle of Dogs are shown laid out but overlayed onto the watercourses they replaced. Credit: 1872 map TUM image id: 1515422560 Licence:	Torpedo boats at the Thames Ironworks, Blackwall (1906) The Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company was a shipyard and iron works straddling the mouth of Bow Creek beside its confluence with the River Thames. The main activity was shipbuilding but the company notably produced ironwork for Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Royal Albert Bridge over the Tamar in the 1850s, and the world’s first all-iron warship, HMS Warrior, launched in 1860. Employees at the Ironworks formed a works football team, called the Thames Ironworks Football Club. This club was later renamed West Ham United, whose emblem of the crossed hammers represents the large riveting hammers used in the shipbuilding trade. West Ham are also known as "The Hammers" for this reason. TUM image id: 1709817073 Licence:	Celebrations in River Way, date unknown Credit: Unknown TUM image id: 1597145597 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Crown Street, Canning Town, circa 1930 Credit: Mary Evans Picture Library TUM image id: 1684944150 Licence:	Handmade cababochon using a map of the London Underground Credit: Jane Perrone TUM image id: 1659634976 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Emily Street at the junction of Jude Street (formerly John Street), Canning Town, 1925 Both Emily Street and Jude Street remain on the modern map but all of the buildings have been cleared from the site TUM image id: 1709829781 Licence:	Ceylon Place, SE10 Credit: London Metropolitan Archives TUM image id: 1597141568 Licence: CC BY 2.0	A framing section of the Blackwall Tunnel being constructed at the Thames Ironworks (1895) On Saturday 22 May 1897, the western Blackwall Tunnel, designed by Sir Alexander Binnie and built by S. Pearson & Sons for London County Council, was opened by the Prince of Wales. It was then the longest underwater tunnel in the world at 4,410 feet and was initially lit by three rows of incandescent streetlights. To clear the site in Greenwich, more than 600 people had to be rehoused and a house reputedly once owned by Sir Walter Raleigh had to be demolished. Costing £1.4 million and employing 800 men, it took six years to construct, using a tunnelling shield and compressed-air techniques TUM image id: 1660568873 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Pirates were publicly hanged at Execution Dock in Wapping. The bodies of the pirates amongst them were placed in a cage and brought further downstream to Blackwall Point, the northernmost tip of the Greenwich Peninsula. They would then be left in the cages and left to rot - a warning to ships passing through into London. TUM image id: 1622644786 Licence:	Loading tar at the gasworks in East Greenwich (1929) TUM image id: 1660577185 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Battleship HMS Sans Pareil ready for launching at the Thames Ironworks, Blackwall (1889) TUM image id: 1711490065 Licence:	Emirates Air Line in London Credit: Flickr/snappyhopper TUM image id: 1669209319 Licence: CC BY 2.0