Tough Brothers Boatyard
The Boatyard of Tough Brothers, Ferry Road,was at the wharf opposite Teddington Lock. In May 1940 Douglas Tough organised and assembled 100 private boats at that location to join in the Dunkirk eva...
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Whitechapel Bell Foundry
This foundry is the oldest manufacturing company in the UK and is still making bells at 32/34 Whitechapel Road. Probably their most famous creation is Big Ben (we thank Alice, a member of a childre...
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King's Bench Prison
Established in medieval times as a place to hold prisoners of the King's Bench court, primarily debtors. It was originally sited in Angel Place, off Borough High Street, just north of what is now J...
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Limehouse Basin
The basin was built, as "Regent’s Canal Dock", by the Regent's Canal Company so that goods could be taken from sea-going vessels in the Thames and transferred to canal boats for distribution along ...
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Tower subway
A tunnel beneath the Thames with entrances at Tower Hill and at Vine Lane on the south side. The second tunnel under the Thames (the first being Brunel's) and the first tunnel anywhere built using ...
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Shepherd's Well
One of the two sources of the Tyburn river, the other being in the grounds of Belsize Manor (now the area called Belsize Park). The picture shows the well in 1820. In 1878 Edward Walford wrote " ...
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Church Row
The photograph appears under Stoke Newington Manor House/Church Row on the Hackney Plaques and Local History website, without any further explanation. We have to assume that this is a picture of Ch...
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WAG Club
Former nightclub. The name derives from the initials of its predecessor, the Whiskey-A-Go-Go Club. It attracted a multi-racial clientele and regularly had a large number of potential customers queu...
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Whiskey-A-Go-Go Club
Former nightclub. It opened in the 1970s (or 1959 - see below), in the premises once occupied by the Flamingo Club. The name was adapted from the 'Whiskey a Go Go' club in Hollywood. We know nothi...
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