Wharf Road, E14

Wharf Road is now part of Ferry Road but had an independent history.

Eric Pemberton/Isle of Dogs Life
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Wharf Road ran parallel to the river and had various wharves along its length: the Port of London Wharf, Millwall Boiler Works and a horse shoe makers on the Millwall side. On the Cubitt Town side there was more industry.

The Millwall Extension Railway opened a station called North Greenwich but the site of the station split Wharf Road into two parts. The railway company ran a subway between the vestigial Wharf Road and the cut-off - and much longer - section which eventually became Saunders Ness Road from 1937.

Wharf Road dated from the 1850s and its housing dated from the following decade. Three cross streets were built: Barque Street, Ship Street (later Schooner Street) and Brig Street.

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Tony Whipple Frank Whipple Place, E14 Added: 16 Apr 2024 21:35 GMT	Frank Whipple Place, E14 Frank was my great-uncle, I’d often be ’babysat’ by Peggy while Nan and Dad went to the pub. Peggy was a marvel, so full of life. My Dad and Frank didn’t agree on most politics but everyone in the family is proud of him. A genuinely nice, knowledgable bloke. One of a kind. Reply
Theresa Penney Whites Row, E1 Added: 16 Apr 2024 18:08 GMT	1 Whites Row My 2 x great grandparents and his family lived here according to the 1841 census. They were Dutch Ashkenazi Jews born in Amsterdam at the beginning of the 19th century but all their children were born in Spitalfields. Reply
Wendy The Polygon Added: 22 Mar 2024 15:33 GMT	Polygon Buildings Following the demolition of the Polygon, and prior to the construction of Oakshott Court in 1974, 4 tenement type blocks of flats were built on the site at Clarendon Sq/Phoenix Rd called Polygon Buildings. These were primarily for people working for the Midland Railway and subsequently British Rail. My family lived for 5 years in Block C in the 1950s. It seems that very few photos exist of these buildings. Reply
Steve Charleville Circus, SE26 Added: 19 Mar 2024 08:42 GMT	Road construction and houses completed New Charleville Circus road layout shown on Stanford’s Library Map Of London And Its Suburbs 1879 with access via West Hill only. Plans showing street numbering were recorded in 1888 so we can concluded the houses in Charleville Circus were built by this date. Source: Charleville Circus, Sydenham, London Reply
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Charles Hornsey Rise, N19 Added: 8 Mar 2024 20:45 GMT	My House I want to know who lived in my house in the 1860’s. Reply
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Paul Cox Aldine Street, W12 Added: 5 Mar 2024 22:18 GMT	War damage reinstatement plans of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street Whilst clearing my elderly Mothers house of general detritus, I’ve come across original plans (one on acetate) of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street. Might they be of interest or should I just dispose of them? There are 4 copies seemingly from the one single acetate example. Seems a shame to just junk them as the level of detail is exquisite. No worries if of no interest, but thought I’d put it out there. Reply

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The Greenwich Foot Tunnel in May 2018 Credit: Wiki Commons/Mlanni98 TUM image id: 1620394934 Licence:	A procession passing the corner of Chapel House Street and Westferry Road (1930s) Credit: Island History Trust / Tony Atkinson TUM image id: 1651500794 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Crooms Hill (1937) TUM image id: 1657290361 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Gloucester Circus (1960s) TUM image id: 1657291606 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Tram in Greenwich Church Street. TUM image id: 1657290753 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Looking up Saunder’s Ness Road from approximately the boundary between Empire Wharf and Storer’s Wharf (1930s) Credit: Isle of Dogs – Past Life, Past Lives TUM image id: 1594561778 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Thermopylae Gate, E14 (2022) Houses in the Chapel House Estate on the Isle of Dogs were designed in a ’Neo-Georgian’ style by Sir Frank Baines. Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1651313864 Licence:	Jubilee Crescent, E14 Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1518378083 Licence:	Arktika-M spacecraft entering high elliptical orbit after a launch of the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with the Fregat upper stage on 28 February 2021. When flight tests are finished, we will have new ability to observe the Arctic region and ocean from space. Photo: Credit: Roscosmos TUM image id: 1620396365 Licence:	NASA’s Curiosity landed on Mars in August 2012. JPL engineers are seen here celebrating the successful landing. Credit: NASA TUM image id: 1620397266 Licence:
Greenwich bath house (1900) This stood near Greenwich station on the later site of the Town Hall. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1657287382 Licence:	Clouds as pictured from orbit. Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev took this picture from the ISS, early in 2014 Credit: Roscosmos/Oleg Artemyev TUM image id: 1620406660 Licence:	The Sun emits a mid-level solar flare. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however - when intense enough - they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel. Credit: NASA/SDO TUM image id: 1620405958 Licence:	Letter to Chuck Berry from Carl Sagan (1986) TUM image id: 1621596953 Licence:	London bus (2020) TUM image id: 1620647094 Licence:

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The Greenwich Foot Tunnel in May 2018
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A procession passing the corner of Chapel House Street and Westferry Road (1930s)
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Tram in Greenwich Church Street.
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Looking up Saunder’s Ness Road from approximately the boundary between Empire Wharf and Storer’s Wharf (1930s)
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Thermopylae Gate, E14 (2022) Houses in the Chapel House Estate on the Isle of Dogs were designed in a ’Neo-Georgian’ style by Sir Frank Baines.
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Jubilee Crescent, E14
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Duck down at the Macy’s parade, New York City (1961)
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Isle of Dogs from above (1980s)
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