Cannon Workshops, E14

Cannon Workshops is a block dating to the beginning of the 19th century.

The Quadrangle Stores have now been turned into the Cannon Workshops (2020)
Credit: Wiki Commons/Hjamesberglen

Starting in the first decade of the 1800s, the area of the West India Docks works yard was established, featuring the renowned architectural designs of Sir John Rennie. This space remained mostly unaltered until the 1920s when the Port of London Authority (PLA)constructed their Central Stores Depot on the site.

During the 1980s, the PLA introduced a collection of workshops available for rent to accommodate small businesses. This estate was named the Cannon Workshops in reference to a cannon that had previously occupied the entrance of the area.

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Wells House on the Howland Estate, Lower Road, SE16 (2009) The estate is just south of Neptune Street and consists of two blocks - Wells House and behind it, Ritchie House. All the estate names are connected with the Great Howland Wet Dock. Credit: Geograph/Chris Lordan TUM image id: 1627909359 Licence:	Poplar (1910) TUM image id: 1556886600 Licence:	George V and Queen Mary during their visit to Limehouse Town Hall on 25 May 1935 TUM image id: 1684942537 Licence:	The Grapes (1969) Founded in 1583 and mentioned in Dickens ’Our Mutual Friend’ TUM image id: 1671385760 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Alpha Grove (1962) Alpha Grove (previously Alpha Road) runs from Strafford Street to Tiller Road on the Isle of Dogs. Alpha Grove ran right through to the West India Dock fence dock - its cranes can be seen at the end of the road. When built in the 1800s, Alpha Road followed a section of the old island path, Dolphin Lane. The road running across the view in the photo is Byng Street. TUM image id: 1489324044 Licence:
1 Cabot Square Credit: Jack8080 TUM image id: 1481482264 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Burdett Road by Baggally Street (1906) TUM image id: 1622500053 Licence:	Two Men on a Bench is one of two sculptures in Canary Wharf by Giles Penny. Credit: www.walkmeblog.com TUM image id: 1685539374 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The River Thames looking west as photographed from the restaurant at One Canada Place (2018) Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1686915908 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Limehouse Barge-Builders (Narrow Street from the river). This painting can be seen in the South Shields Museum and Art Gallery. Credit: Charles Napier Hemy (1841-1917) TUM image id: 1620207534 Licence:
Chinatown, Limehouse (1930s) TUM image id: 1685034358 Licence:	Pennyfields, Poplar (around 1900) TUM image id: 1605021763 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The ’Queen’ beerhouse at 128 Rhodeswell Road. Limehouse (1897). Beerhouses weren’t licenced to sell wines and spirits - only beer. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1615402335 Licence:	Salmon Lane in the Rain, Bow (1987) Credit: Doreen Fletcher TUM image id: 9532602 Licence:	’Blood Alley’ in the West India Docks, circa 1930. This photograph was taken at the North Quay shows a gang of dockers trucking bags of sugar beneath an awning of washed sacks that are hung out for drying at. ‘Blood Alley’ was the nickname given to roadway between the transit sheds and sugar warehouses because handling the sacks of sticky West Indian sugar badly chafed and cracked the dockers’ skin. This quay is now home to the Museum of London Docklands Credit: PLA collection/Museum of London TUM image id: 1685546420 Licence: