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East Greenwich gasometer, Blackwall Lane The 19th century gasometer frame in Blackwall Lane, just south of the tunnel entrance and the Millennium Dome (still to be built when this was taken). The framework made intriguing geometric patterns as we sailed down the river aboard the Thames barge ’Pudge’. Credit: Stephen Williams TUM image id: 1513897066 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Towers of the Emirates Air Line gondola lift cable car, from the north bank of the River Thames. Credit: Nick Cooper TUM image id: 1515421735 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Map of the Greenwich Peninsula and part of the Isle of Dogs (c.1872) Bugsby’s Marsh - the site of the O2 - was a particularly grim location being land to the south of Blackwall Point where executed criminals were hung in chains. Rather interestingly, the routes of roads of the Isle of Dogs are shown laid out but overlayed onto the watercourses they replaced. Credit: 1872 map TUM image id: 1515422560 Licence:	Quantum Cloud and Slice of Reality (1999) The Quantum Cloud is a sculpture located in the River Thames next to the Millennium Dome. It is 30 metres high and designed by Antony Gormley. It is constructed from a collection of tetrahedral units made from 1.5 m long sections of steel. In designing Quantum Cloud, Antony Gormley was influenced by Basil Hiley, quantum physicist. The idea for Quantum Cloud came from Hiley’s thoughts on pre-space as a mathematical structure underlying space-time and matter. The nearby ’Slice of Reality’ by Richard Wilson comprises of a sliced vertical section of an ocean going sand dredger. The original ship was reduced in length by 85%, leaving a vertical portion housing the ships habitable sections: bridge, poop, accommodation and engine room. The slicing of the vessel opened the structure, leaving it exposed to the effects of weather and tide. Credit: Andy Roberts TUM image id: 1515423209 Licence:	Torpedo boats at the Thames Ironworks, Blackwall (1906) The Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company was a shipyard and iron works straddling the mouth of Bow Creek beside its confluence with the River Thames. The main activity was shipbuilding but the company notably produced ironwork for Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Royal Albert Bridge over the Tamar in the 1850s, and the world’s first all-iron warship, HMS Warrior, launched in 1860. Employees at the Ironworks formed a works football team, called the Thames Ironworks Football Club. This club was later renamed West Ham United, whose emblem of the crossed hammers represents the large riveting hammers used in the shipbuilding trade. West Ham are also known as "The Hammers" for this reason. TUM image id: 1709817073 Licence:
Crown Street, Canning Town, circa 1930 Credit: Mary Evans Picture Library TUM image id: 1684944150 Licence:	Handmade cababochon using a map of the London Underground Credit: Jane Perrone TUM image id: 1659634976 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Emily Street at the junction of Jude Street (formerly John Street), Canning Town, 1925 Both Emily Street and Jude Street remain on the modern map but all of the buildings have been cleared from the site TUM image id: 1709829781 Licence:	Mary Street, off Barking Road, on an unknown occasion. There seems to be speakers on top of the car TUM image id: 1576515211 Licence:	A framing section of the Blackwall Tunnel being constructed at the Thames Ironworks (1895) On Saturday 22 May 1897, the western Blackwall Tunnel, designed by Sir Alexander Binnie and built by S. Pearson & Sons for London County Council, was opened by the Prince of Wales. It was then the longest underwater tunnel in the world at 4,410 feet and was initially lit by three rows of incandescent streetlights. To clear the site in Greenwich, more than 600 people had to be rehoused and a house reputedly once owned by Sir Walter Raleigh had to be demolished. Costing £1.4 million and employing 800 men, it took six years to construct, using a tunnelling shield and compressed-air techniques TUM image id: 1660568873 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Pirates were publicly hanged at Execution Dock in Wapping. The bodies of the pirates amongst them were placed in a cage and brought further downstream to Blackwall Point, the northernmost tip of the Greenwich Peninsula. They would then be left in the cages and left to rot - a warning to ships passing through into London. TUM image id: 1622644786 Licence:	The Greenwich Peninsula and points east (1870) We are returning to the beauty of the 1870 series from the Ordnance Survey. Poplar - in the top left of the map - was as built up then as now. The Thames flows the same course. Everything else, 150 or so years ago, is rather different. In most recent memory, were the thriving docks on the Isle of Dogs. A rather poor population - men, boys and some women - in Poplar, Cubitt Town and Millwall were employed in the various jobs associated with the trade which made the British Empire rich. On the south bank of the river, Greenwich Marshes dominate all the way east to the built-up area of Woolwich. The Woolwich Dockyard was an important facility but you’d never know it from this map. It’s a secret - a blank space as far as the Ordnance Survey was concerned. It was well into the 1900s before maps were allowed to show it. Opposite the Greenwich peninsula, on the other bank from the O2, is a sugar refinery. Remarkably, Tate & Lyle are still in the area even after all this time. Behind the factory is the Victoria Dock, the first of the Royal Docks-to-be, and a notable addition to an area which was largely marshland before this. Custom House to the north of the dock administers the show. It has its own station on the North Woolwich branch line which heads to Silvertown. Back on the Greenwich Marsh, a chemical works has arrived amidst the meadows. This was the first of much toxic industry to arrive here. This polluted the soil so much that heavy metals had to be removed for years before the development of the inevitable box-shaped apartment blocks of North Greenwich. By the way, this time next week sees the launch of our ’make me a map’ service where you can ask us to create printable historic maps of your own area - centred on your house. More of that later... Credit: Ordnance Survey TUM image id: 1716563778 Licence:	Loading tar at the gasworks in East Greenwich (1929) TUM image id: 1660577185 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Emirates Air Line in London Credit: Flickr/snappyhopper TUM image id: 1669209319 Licence: CC BY 2.0