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Imports and Exports Prevail Apart from the necessary commitment of vast Government resources to achieve such an objective, there were other difficulties of a political, economic and commercial nature …
From London – A Pilgrimage, 1872 by Gustave Dore and Blanchard Jerrold The Shadwell Sailing Club’s safety boat with a sailing dinghy beyond. A vivid illustration of Greenwich’s maritime …
Thames: Sacred River “In the reaches before Lechlade the water makes its way through isolated pastures; at Wapping and Rotherhithe the dwellings seem to drop into it, as if …
Reflections on the Thames Barrier: A Conundrum The Thames Barrier at Woolwich was completed in 1983, 30 years after the Great Flood of 1953 caused the loss of 300 …