Globe Wharf 1937 was built in c.1883 by A.P. Keen and Co. as a granary, handling wheat, barley and rice. In 1924 Globe Wharf was converted for storing and milling rice by Thames Rice Milling.
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When it was complete, Norway dock was connected to Greenland Dock, with no independent access to the Thames. All vessels using Norway Dock would first enter Greenland Dock and then enter through Norway Cut, the connection passage between the two.
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Sailing vessels where called Onkers. This picture shows short planks being unloaded from an Onker onto a lighter at the Surrey Commercial Docks. In the London docks, Onkers were the last sailing ships to compete with the reign of steam.
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One of the last lighters laden with timber entering the Surrey Canal from the Greenland Dock in June 1970, when most of the canal and the Surrey Commercial Docks had closed.
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Cochin Upper Wharf, Rotherhithe. Derelict building also shows part of 59 Rotherhithe Street c1950.
Rotherhithe Street, Bermondsey, Yardley's Wharf and Matthew's Wharves.Yardley's Wharf is derelict and there is a truck in front of Matthew's Wharf with a sign 'Free Trade Wharf Co. Ltd'. These wharves no longer exist. They were destroyed in an air-raid in December 1940 and the site on which they stood is now part of King's Stairs Gardens.
Rotherhithe Street, Bermondsey, Yardley's Wharf and Matthew's Wharves.Yardley's Wharf is derelict and there is a truck in front of Matthew's Wharf with a sign 'Free Trade Wharf Co. Ltd'. These wharves no longer exist. They were destroyed in an air-raid in December 1940 and the site on which they stood is now part of King's Stairs Gardens.
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In the 1850s Prince's Wharf was the timber-built base of a barge and boat builder, but by 1873 the entire Thames frontage at this point was made up of a series of wharves of varying sizes. By 1937 Prince's Wharf was a six-storey brick-built wharf next to Gordon's Wharf and linked to it by walkways. Both had been operated as granaries by Gillman and Spencer, which specialized in landing and bagging loose cereals and the manufacture of flaked maize and brewers' preservatives, but when the company was purchased by Pauls Malt Ltd in 1902 they also manufactured a product called Kositos, an animal feed.
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