Blackwall (London)

Blackwall is a neighborhood in the East End of London, located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets on the north bank of the Thames.

The area around the Blackwall Stairs was known at least since the 14th century as Blackwall. Presumably the name comes from the color of the river fortifications that had emerged in the Middle Ages. The area lies in a loop of the Thames River near Poplar, where at the beginning of the 19th century, the East India Docks were built.

Today we know Blackwall, above all because of the Blackwall Tunnel, which connects the district among the adjacent River Thames with the north of Greenwich. In Blackwall is also the fire station in the television series London 's Burning the transmitter London Weekend Television.

There was a railway line from Minories about Stepney by Blackwall, the London and Blackwall Railway. The track length was 3 ½ mls. (approx. 5,6 km). The largest part of today's route through Limehouse DLR runs over the old viaducts. It was 1836 when The Commercial Railway (German: freight rail ) along the Commercial Road in London's East End approved.

In Blackwall so sailors were known as Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, and Walter Raleigh home. 1606 ran the ships to the colonization of the Americas, which was initiated by the London Company, from here.

Industry

For over 350 years until 1987 Blackwall was a center of shipbuilding and ship repair. This included the Blackwall Yard, exist today from the two former dry dock near the Reuters building, the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. Ltd.. in Leamouth, some of the plants were in Blackwall, and the Orchard House Yard. Today there are only a few industrial plants here. One of the few surviving firms, Pura Foods Ltd.. ( Cooking oil) at Orchard Place closed its doors in 2006. On this site formerly the Thames Plate Glass Works ( Eng.: Thames flat glass works ). For many years, the well-known Fowler's sugar factory in Blackwall.

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