This aesthetic is complemented by the new build components which are designed to respect the spirit of old docklands, utilising steel windows, pitched roofs, open lattice steel trusses and wide glazed doors.
Crisply detailed industrial materials are used in a fresh, considered way to facilitate modern living. Both wharves were largely wrecked by fire in Rose Wharf took its name from its occupiers of many years, Sir W. Their main premises were in Upper Thames Street. Several buildings were erected in —4, the principal one being a six-storey oil refinery, which was destroyed by fire in A substantial replacement, comprising basement and three floors, was built in the following year. Brick-built, with concrete floors carried on iron joists and concrete-cased iron columns, it had a corrugated-iron roof on steel trusses, and was served by an outside iron staircase.
Like several local wharves, Rose Wharf had begun as a purpose-built factory, and was turned over to storage with a minimum of conversion work. The wharfingers simply carried out some repairs, and stowed the derelict paintmaking machinery in the refinery basement. Goods stored included celluloid toys and Christmas crackers; by the wharf was used exclusively for waste paper. St Andrew's Works adjoined Rose Wharf.
Formerly the coconut-desiccating works of G. In they became part of St Andrew's Wharf. The largest of several wharves owned by the company at that time, it was used mainly for storing building materials, including cement, ballast, timber, slates, tiles, felt, laths, hair and plaster. It was used mainly as a petroleum wharf, despite the 'flimsy and combustible nature' of some of the storage sheds erected, and the proximity of Rose's oil and paint factory.
Wood and vegetable oils, tar, asphalt, paper and building materials were also handled. By the early s, when the company had also taken over Rose Wharf, the local oil-storage business was suffering from the decline of the Port of London.
One company in particular, on which Thames Oil depended heavily for business, pulled out of London altogether. Part of Rose Wharf had to be let. The company's financial position was further weakened by the expense of refronting the river wall, and by the severe winter weather of —3, which caused considerable damage to plant and goods.
Finally, in the face of government import restrictions, the wharf was closed, the plant was scrapped and Thames Oil ceased trading early in The site of the dock was bought in from Charles Augustus Ferguson by David Napier and shortly afterwards sold by him to William Tindall, who in built a wharf, a ft-long dry dock and various workshops and warehouses which were plain, mostly brick buildings with hipped roofs, of two or three floors, some open on the ground floor.
The dock later formed part of the Millwall Iron Works conglomeration. Too small for later needs, it closed in The filled-in site became a timber-yard, known as Britannia Wharf. David Napier, marine engineer, bought the site of Napier Yard, undeveloped except for a row of old cottages, in , laying it out as a shipyard for his sons John and Francis.
By it contained a workshop, a substantial Classical-style villa called Millwall House, Plate 84c , and some dwellings along Westferry Road. However, by the s it was partly occupied by ship- and barge-builders, to whom building slips were leased by the Millwall Iron Works Company, successor to the earlier limited company. The premises, known as the Canadian Cooperage, comprised a range of one- and two-storey buildings. Burned out in , they were replaced by a warehouse, cask store and mill, all of corrugated-iron construction, and a two-storey brick-built office block.
Important contracts of Westwood's included the Sukkur Bridge, a cantilever bridge erected across the River Indus in , which helped to open up trade between India and Afghanistan. Another business carried on at Napier Yard was the manufacture of safety treads for stairs and steps. Joseph Westwood, junior, made wooden treads, under the name Hawksley's Patent Treads, from about , supplying institutional and commercial buildings all over the country.
From Hawksley's Treads were manufactured, together with an improved version, invented by a Greenwich civil engineer, J. A number of local people took shares in the new company, including Harry Hooper, the Millwall surveyor and estate agent, and Horace Bradshaw, a carman and contractor. Andrew's Treads, extensively used in railway stations and other buildings, and on bus and tram platforms, comprised wooden cubes in wrought-iron framing.
They were said to be stronger than comparable treads using cast-iron frames, with the additional advantage that the blocks could be reversed when worn. Manufacture was transferred after a few years to premises in Wharf Road, Cubitt Town. Extensive building and rebuilding was carried out by Westwood's from , but much of the site remained covered by jetties and building slips until , when the ground was levelled and a river wall was constructed. Large steel-framed buildings were put up in the s.
William Fairbairn's Millwall Iron Works. In —7 the engineer Sir William Fairbairn —, baronet laid out an ironworks on a three-acre site, purchased from Charles Augustus Ferguson. The Millwall venture, which grew out of experiments in the early s with a small iron boat on the Forth and Clyde Canal and the Mersey, was Fairbairn's second attempt to succeed in London. A quarter of a century earlier, as a young millwright, he had been prevented from taking up John Rennie's offer of employment in connection with Waterloo Bridge because of the Millwrights' Society's closed-shop policy.
Later he found work at Greenwich and must therefore have known Millwall , but left the London area in , setting up in business in Manchester as a manufacturing engineer in Fairbairn, together with his sons, carried out some innovative work at Millwall, not only in the construction of iron ships, but also including such projects as model tests for Robert Stephenson's Menai Bridge.
His main engineering works, however, remained at Manchester. The mill-house was constructed of a framework of hollow cast-iron pillars, the walls of the ground floor being formed of cast-iron plates, and those of the upper two floors of wrought-iron plates, riveted to flanges on the pillars. The floors were formed of iron beams supported on columns, and the roof was of corrugated iron. More than ships, mostly under 2, tons, were built by Fairbairn at Millwall, including vessels for the Admiralty, the merchant marine, the Tsar of Russia and the King of Denmark.
The works were not a financial success, however, for which Fairbairn blamed 'opposition from every quarter'. The arrangement of the works in is shown in fig. The smithies and ship-joiners' sheds were temporary wooden buildings, and the latter had been taken down by The iron warehouse, put up in , was also of timber, but substantially built, slate roofed, and intended to be permanent; it too had been removed a few years later.
The boat-building and boiler-making shed showed an attempt to prettify and disguise an essentially utilitarian structure. Timber-framed and partly built of brick, it had an open-fronted ground floor, and a slated, lantern-light roof. The upper floor had two rectangular windows per bay, resembling terraced housing, and there was an attempt at a Classical treatment of the front.
The central chimney, designed to draw smoke through underground ducts from furnaces throughout the premises, was octagonal in section, rising from an arcaded base to a height of about ft, terminating in a flared funnel. Fairbairn's works were for sale by , and it was only the local shortage of accommodation for workmen that deterred one firm of marine steam-engine makers from taking them.
Their products included sugarcane crushing machinery, but the best-known part of the business was shipbuilding, in both wood and iron. Unusually, vessels were launched from the yard fully fitted out.
Ships built by the Robinsons and Russell included the iron steamer Taman , completed in for the Russian government to operate from the Black Sea ports. William Fairbairn's Millwall Iron Works, site plan in Cross-hatching indicates 'temporary' buildings. The completion of the ship was fraught with troubles, chief of which was the launch.
The project bankrupted the company, and ultimately Scott Russell, and brought about Brunel's early death worn out, he suffered a stroke while on deck the day before the maiden voyage began, and died a few days later. Because of the constraints of the yard and the river — the overall length of the ship was not very much less than the width of the river at low water — the ship was built broadside on to the Thames. The sideways launch this involved proved technically difficult and financially ruinous to Eastern Steam Navigation.
In the end, the Great Eastern never went to India, the route for which it had been designed, but made a few transatlantic crossings in the early s before being used for cable-laying in the North Atlantic. Disused for years, in it was briefly opened as a public attraction at Liverpool, and was then broken up. The launch of the Great Eastern was perhaps the most exciting public spectacle in London since the Great Exhibition, which had closed just over six years earlier; while the construction of such a huge ship was comparable in its technological significance to the building of the Crystal Palace itself.
At some 21, tons burden, ft long with a beam of 83ft, the Great Eastern was vastly bigger than any existing vessel, and more than four times the weight of the most up-to-date longdistance mail ships. It was designed to hold 4, people, and the lavishness of the first-class accommodation and the Grand Saloon surpassed anything previously floated.
The building of ever-larger ships — Brunel's own Great Western , constructed in , measured only ft by 57ft but was then well in excess of the largest extant paddle-steamer — was given impetus by the realization that bigger ships could be faster, a principle established in the early s on the transatlantic route by American shipowners.
The concept of the Great Eastern , however, came about specifically as an attempted solution to the problem of the pre-Suez Canal routes to India and Australia. Chas E. Click for full-sized version. Year unknown. Established in by A. Burrell and E.
Burrell sons. Incorporated as a Limited Company in Directors: E. Burrell Chairman , P. Burrell, K. Burrell, J. Staff: Total, about Agencies throughout the world. From the late s until the early s a succession of stores, warehouses, workshops and minor ancillary buildings appeared.
Earlier buildings on the site were adapted and retained. The result was characteristic of Victorian industrial development at its most ad hoc. The long building in the previous photo, one of two parallel workshops, had previously belonged to Venesta, manufacturers of all kinds of boxes, packing cases etc. Stock Exchange Yearbook, Venesta moved their production to Silvertown in and, according to the Survey of London:.
In the name Whittock Wharf was adopted. During the war, the works produced a variety of chemicals for the government, including a constituent of flame-thrower fuel. Paint production ceased in Housing Occupancy Embed This Back to Top This data lists the total number of residents normally resident within each household. Gender Male Female Total Health Embed This Back to Top Health in the UK is strongly tied to age as you would expect, but the affluence of a neighbourhood also has strong influence, with deprived areas often showing poorer standards of health.
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