Saunders Ness Road, E14

Saunders Ness Road was a new name for the eastern section of Wharf Road.

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

Saunders Ness Road was a logical renaming (in 1937) being the area of the Isle of Dogs which ended in Saunders Ness. The road had existed in its Wharf Road incarnation since the 1850s.

This section of the road, stretching east from Island Gardens, served many wharves along its length.

The road was indeed mostly industry with fewer houses. On the first day of the Blitz - 7 September 1940 - a high explosive bomb fell at the south end of Saunders Ness Road with many houses destroyed or damaged beyond repair. Further bombing on the night of 18 September affected the road with 26 killed at Cubitt Town School. Indeed most buildings in the street suffered at least minor damage in the Blitz.

Much later, after the war during the 1970s, many of the industrial buildings and wharves were demolished with the land used by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets for the construction of public housing.

Construction of the Docklands Light Railway began in 1983 with its terminus at Island Gardens station.

Main source:	Isle of Dogs – Past Life, Past Lives \| Two Hundred Years of Docks, Industry & Islanders
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The Greenwich Foot Tunnel in May 2018 Credit: Wiki Commons/Mlanni98 TUM image id: 1620394934 Licence:	Tram in Greenwich Church Street. TUM image id: 1657290753 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Maze Hill SE10 Credit: GoArt/The Underground Map TUM image id: 1584890270 Licence:	The Royal Standard (still) stands at the corner of Pelton Road and Christchurch Way in Greenwich. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1610552253 Licence:	Jubilee Crescent, E14 Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1518378083 Licence:
The corner of Feathers Place (mid 1900s) Feathers Place is situated to the east of Greenwich town centre in an attractive area north of Greenwich Park. The photo shows where this road intersects with Park Vista. "F.C.Sharp" is long gone. TUM image id: 1657291232 Licence:	House in Braddyll Street, SE10 Many street names east of Greenwich relate to the Durham coal field. Col. Braddyll was one of the partners in the South Hetton Coal Company. Messrs Braddyll & Co. also then owned Dalden-le-Dale Colliery. The locomotive ’Bradyll’ still exists and is believed to be the oldest surviving locomotive with six-driving wheels. Bradyll was built by Timothy Hackworth at his Soho Works in Shildon, County Durham in 1840. The locomotive can be seen in the National Railway Museum’s location at Shildon. TUM image id: 1597074060 Licence:	Aste Street Credit: GoArt/The Underground Map TUM image id: 1563620823 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Eric Pemberton/Isle of Dogs Life TUM image id: 1591887085 Licence:	A Suffragette Advertising Cart (1909) Such advertising carts were regularly hired by the Women’s Social and Political Union to publicise the campaign and announce meetings. Credit: Museum of London TUM image id: 1671458301 Licence:
Photographer Luke Agbaimoni gave up city-scape night photography after the birth of his first child, but creating the Tube Mapper project allowed him to continue being creative, fitting photography around his new lifestyle and adding stations on his daily commute. Credit: https://www.facebook.com/tubemapper TUM image id: 1606830531 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Old Covent Garden Credit: Clive Boursnell TUM image id: 1671461066 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Isle of Dogs from above (1980s) TUM image id: 1660568646 Licence: CC BY 2.0	One of the quirkier and recommended websites covering London is Edith’s Streets - a street-by-street ramble through the highways and byways within the M25... http://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/ Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1637236165 Licence:	Sailing boats pass in front of Greenwich College (c.1890) TUM image id: 1641297653 Licence: CC BY 2.0

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The Greenwich Foot Tunnel in May 2018
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Jubilee Crescent, E14
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House in Braddyll Street, SE10 Many street names east of Greenwich relate to the Durham coal field. Col. Braddyll was one of the partners in the South Hetton Coal Company. Messrs Braddyll & Co. also then owned Dalden-le-Dale Colliery. The locomotive ’Bradyll’ still exists and is believed to be the oldest surviving locomotive with six-driving wheels. Bradyll was built by Timothy Hackworth at his Soho Works in Shildon, County Durham in 1840. The locomotive can be seen in the National Railway Museum’s location at Shildon.
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Eric Pemberton/Isle of Dogs Life
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Sailing boats pass in front of Greenwich College (c.1890)
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Children paddling in the Thames by the Royal Naval College, Greenwich (1928)
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The Little Cowboy, Christmas Day (London, 1958)
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London from Greenwich Park (1720) From the Dutch school of painting in vogue at the time, notable features of this painting are the palace in central Greenwich (later demolished), St Paul’s as the tallest London building on the horizon and a very green Isle of Dogs
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Greenwich Pier
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More than 3000 kilometres from any continent, Amsterdam Island pokes out from the southern Indian Ocean at a point between Africa, Australia, and Antarctica. The product of a basaltic volcano that was last active about 200 000 to 400 000 years ago, the tiny elliptical island reaches an elevation of 867 metres at its highest peak. As shown by this natural-colour satellite image, that peak was high enough to disrupt the clouds flowing around it. The image was acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 on 2 November 2014. It features mountain-wave clouds flowing in a southeasterly direction on the lee side of Amsterdam Island. Part of the island is visible on the far left of the image.
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