Royal Albert Dock
The Royal Albert Dock is one of three docks for the Royal Docks in London's East End and is now one of the Docklands area.
History
The basin was built east of the previously incurred Royal Victoria Dock from the St. Katharine Docks London & Company and was opened in 1880. It was even bigger than the Royal Victoria Dock with over 4.8 kilometers of quay and had a driveway from Gallion 's Reach of the Thames ago. In the south and in the west end were dry docks and workshops for ship repairs (later River Thames Shiprepairers Ltd. ) Were operated by R. & H. Green & Silley Weir.
The basin was closed for the cargo ship traffic along with the other Royal Docks in the 1980s. It remained intact and is now used mainly for water sports, such as as rowing course. Also, it is occasionally traversed by ships on their way to the Royal Victoria Dock and to the exhibitions at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre.
Today
The most important institution in the field of port facilities is now the London City Airport, the single airstrip was built along the south side of the harbor, so the Royal Albert Dock, at the northern boundary of the airport. The padded dry dock ship repair works are now under the airstrip. Aircraft movements can be observed clearly from the largely publicly accessible north side of the harbor.
The traffic access to the harbor on the north side was significantly improved. There are new roads and the Beckton Line Docklands Light Railway runs along the harbor. At the western end of the London Regatta Centre is located with the above constructed Yi -Ban Chinese Restaurant. Next to it is a boat house, which is used by many rowers of different clubs. Then the building in 1000, an office building in the Royals Business Park, 2007 for three years stood empty until July and served only as a backdrop of various films is. The 1000 Building is now part of the London Borough of Newham, to resettle 2,500 people since April 2008 in the building. In addition to this office building is a large vacant lot, which is used as additional parking for the ExCeL Exhibition Centre, the pedestrian access comes the harbor basin with a short take-off and landing runway, which was used for the Red Bull Air Race in London in 2007 and 2008. At the eastern end of the harbor is the Docklands campus of the University of East London, which was opened in 1999. Subsequent to the campus is the regatta course the London Regatta Centre, a rowing center of international standing, where the Queen Mary University of London Boat Club rundert.
At the Royal Albert Dock are the dragon boat racing clubs Typhoon DBC, DBC Thames and Raging Dragons, and the Royal Docks Rowing Club, which consists mainly of minor members.
- Harbour in London
- Transport (London Borough of Newham )
- Built in the 1880s
- Building in the London Borough of Newham