Join us! It also extended its remit slightly further eastwards to include the docks and wharves of St Katharine Docks and Shad Thames. Originally, the Pool was the stretch of the River Thames along Billingsgate on the south side of the City of London where all imported cargoes had to be delivered for inspection and assessment by Customs Officers, giving the area the name of "Legal Quays". Even if you don't post your own creations, we appreciate feedback on ours. A pool (in this context) is a deep and still place in a river – and thus a good place to moor a boat.
As well as being a generalised warning to husbands, this may have had some connection with the Horn Fair at nearby Charlton, to which ferry-borne revellers could have come via the landing place at Cuckold’s Point Stairs (also known as Horn Stairs). Date accessed: 16 April 2010", "LDDC Completion Booklets - Bermondsey Riverside", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pool_of_London&oldid=973380222, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2020, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2010, All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases, Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases from June 2017, Articles needing examples from November 2012, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 16 August 2020, at 22:21. The Pool of London is a stretch of the River Thames from London Bridge to below Limehouse. [3] The congestion was so extreme that it was said to be possible to walk across the Thames simply by stepping from ship to ship. Late in the last century the London Development Agency and other bodies attempted to make the Pool of London the focus of a regeneration and tourism programme for the shoreline between London Bridge and just beyond Tower Bridge, embracing attractions from Borough market (Southwark) in the west to St Katharine Docks (Tower Hamlets) in the east. The docks thrived up until the 1950s, despite suffering extremely severe bomb damage during the Second World War. playlist_add.
As Britain’s empire expanded and the industrial revolution took hold, the Pool became the busiest section of river in the world, crammed not just with ocean-going ships bearing exotic produce from foreign lands, but boats full of immigrants and emigrants, skiffs bringing oysters and fish from the Thames estuary or North Sea, and colliers transporting coal from Tyneside. Explore London along the Thames as Fauvist painter André Derain did in 1906. The Upper Pool consists of the section between London Bridge and the Cherry Garden Pier in Bermondsey. Many thanks.
Shipping needed unrestricted access to the Pool of London which imposed constraints on the crossings that became increasingly necessary with the commercial development on both sides of the river. Come out of the station at the Cannon Street EXIT and turn sharp left.
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Some of the text content of Hidden London is drawn from. London’s pool is divided into upper and lower parts, which are respectively west and east of Tower Bridge. The Thames Tunnel from Rotherhithe to Wapping was constructed between 1825 and 1843. All content © Hidden London 2005–2020, except where stated otherwise. All creations copyright of the creators. [2] Smuggling, theft and pilferage of cargoes were rife on both the busy open wharves and in the crowded warehouses. [6] The Pool has also featured as a location in various other films. The film was directed by Basil Dearden, and features actors Earl Cameron, Susan Shaw, Joan Dowling, and Bonar Colleano, and comic actors Leslie Phillips, Alfie Bass and James Robertson Justice.
Thereafter, the limited traffic that remained on the Thames merely passed through the Pool rather than mooring here, though HMS Belfast took up a permanent riverside position as a museum ship in 1971. The Pool of London is a stretch of the River Thames from London Bridge to below Limehouse.
Explore London along the Thames as Fauvist painter André Derain did in 1906.
London’s pool is divided into upper and lower parts, which are respectively west and east of Tower Bridge. Patrick O'Brian refers to the Pool of London in the novel Blue at the Mizzen, the twentieth and last complete book in the Aubrey-Maturin series. Please support this website by adding it to the whitelist in your ad blocker. In overseas trade, in 1751 the pool handled 1,682 ships and 234,639 tons of goods. In 1996, an organisation - the Pool of London Partnership - was established to help promote urban renewal of the areas north and south of the river.
Even after the construction of off-river docks, the Pool of London remained an important part of the Port of London.
The Pool was of vital importance to London for centuries - as early as the 7th century Bede wrote that the Pool was the reason for London's existence[citation needed] - but it reached its peak in the 18th and 19th centuries. [5], A British film, Pool of London (1951), is a crime drama set within the Pool.
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The abrupt collapse of commercial traffic in the Thames due to the introduction of shipping containers and coastal deep-water ports in the 1960s emptied the Pool and led to all of the wharves being closed down, and many being demolished. We're a community of creatives sharing everything Minecraft! tate-worlds-pool-of-london-adventure-map-key-puzzle-build. The History of the Port of London: A Vast Emporium of Nations, Brewer’s Dictionary of London Phrase & Fable. By this time the river was lined with nearly continuous walls of wharves running for miles along both banks, and hundreds of ships moored in the river or alongside the quays.
Part of the Tideway of the Thames, the Pool was navigable by tall-masted vessels bringing coastal and later overseas goods—the wharves there were the original part of the Port of London. With the construction of inland docks such as West India and East India, and later Royal Victoria and Royal Albert, the largest ships found new berths but the Pool remained a hive of activity until the ineluctable decline of London as a port in the mid-20th century. More Maps by Dragnoz. Coordinates: 51°30′23″N 0°04′40″W / 51.5063°N 0.0778°W / 51.5063; -0.0778, "The West India Docks: Introduction, Survey of London: volumes 43 and 44: Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs (1994), pp. The Pool was a perennial forest of bobbing masts. We're a community of creatives sharing everything Minecraft! regeneration and an investment of approximately £100m, the Pool of London Partnership was due to dissolve in March 2007 with its work to be partially continued by three new organisations: Team London Bridge, the Potters Fields Park Management Trust and the Tower Hill Management Group. As early as 1586 William Camden boasted: “A man would say, that seeth the shipping there, that it is, as it were, a very wood of trees disbranched to make glades and let in light, so shaded it is with masts and sails.”. Advertisements help keep Hidden London going. It was named from the setting up here in 1562 of a pair of cuckold’s horns on a maypole (a cuckold was traditionally represented as having horns on his head). All rights reserved. Around this time the riverbanks began to fill with imposing warehouses, several of which survive, notably at Butler’s Wharf and Hay’s Wharf on the south shore of the Upper Pool. Pool of London Walk - Interactive Google Sightseeing Map.