Convoys Wharf
The Convoys Wharf, formerly called King 's Yard, hosted the shipyard Deptford, the first of the shipyards in the Royal Navy on the Thames in London. It was opened by Henry VIII to build ships for the Royal Navy in 1513. Convoys Wharf also covers most of the land of the manor Sayes Court, including its gardens, the home of the diarist John Evelyn. The land belonged to 2008, News International, which imported to 2000 newspapers and paper products from Finland. Today it is Hutchison Whampoa and there was a planning application for conversion set in a residential area, though it is a Safeguarded Wharf ( port facility with historical grandfathering ).
History
The King 's Yard was opened by Henry VIII as the first shipyard of the Royal Navy in 1513 and was the leading shipyard of their time. He arranged for an increase in population and an increased standard of living in Deptford.
The waterways are also with the knighting of Sir Francis Drake by Queen Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind, the legend of Sir Walter Raleigh, who resigned his overcoat for Queen Elizabeth, Captain James Cook's third voyage aboard Resolution, Frobisher and Vancouver expeditions in which ships against the Spanish Armada were used and with Nelson's battles, such as of Trafalgar.
1698 came Peter I of Russia, then 25 years old, to learn to Deptford to the craft of shipbuilder and sailor. King William III. allowed him to live in John Evelyn's Sayes Court next to the shipyard. In the three months he taught and his entourage considerable damage to the familiar gardens and also in the house, where " was the most broken furniture, disappeared or been destroyed. " Sir Christopher Wren was responsible for overseeing the property and stated that it had been " completely destroyed ". At the mouth of Deptford Creek, in the grounds of Fairview Housing, there is a body set up by Mihail Chemiakin statue that was donated to the visit of Peter of Russia as a reminder.
In the 18th century, was limited due to the silting of the River Thames, the use of port facilities on the construction of ships and the distribution of materials to other ports and abroad operating fleets. From 1830 to 1844, the Convoy's Wharf was even closed completely in 1864 and called for a parliamentary commission that the shipyards in Deptford and Woolwich would finally closed. Your recommendation has been accepted and the shipyard finally closed in Deptford in 1869; 800 workers were employed there at this time. There were built a total of about 450 ships, the last was the wooden sloop HMS Druid, which was launched in 1869.
Had before the invention of refrigeration calves are imported live and Contagious Deseases (Animals ) Act (German: Act on infectious diseases in animals ) of 1869 gave the City of London Corporation the exclusive right to import animals from abroad and their processing, where she was obliged to make a market by January 1872. It bought the site in Deptford, opened in 1871 a market and extended this to 1889 to 109 265 m². At its peak, in 1907, there 184 971 calves and 49,350 sheep were traded, but until 1912 these figures fell to 21,547 calves and 11.993 sheep.
The butcher in the slaughter- houses and the girls who processed the animal's joints, were typical of the area. In particular, the " Good Girls" were known not only for their rude language and rough handling including the wild booze-ups, but also for their colorful hats. Your conduct on weekends became known throughout London. Girls who worked in the West End of London, switched en masse to the high-paying jobs in the market. This fact, perhaps more than her notorious behavior, led to the establishment of a " rescue mission ". Their building, the Lady Florence Institute, can still be seen on Deptford Broadway today.
1914 calf market was taken over by the Ministry of Defence on lease from the City of London Corporation. Often, traders and other people called for the ceasefire that the market would be reopened, but in 1924 the Department of Defense made of his option to buy the land, use.
The yard served in the First and Second World War as an army depot and as a U.S. base for amphibious vehicles and the like in the second world war.
Most of the buildings that had arisen in the time of the Tudors, the Stuarts and during the Georgian and Victorian era and survived until 1955, have since been eliminated. The only structure that escaped the destruction, is the Olympia Warehouse, a unique cast iron building, which was built in the 1840s. Excavations, which were carried out by CGMS, Duncan Hawkins 2000 by Jon Lowe in the same year and by David Divers in 2001, showed that most of the shipyard as an underground structures that were filled 1869-1950, survived. The structures of the shipyard itself, the docks, the briefs, the basins, ponds, berths and the stairs make a lot of archaeological material, which extended the time, though largely invisible because covered with excavated or modern buildings, is. To date, no archaeological investigations have been in the Garden of Sayes Court conducted a few trenches in the area of the former manor house were dug.
The site lay dormant until it was purchased by the newspaper importer Convoys 1984. The shipyard and port areas of Convoys Wharf in Deptford, as well as the company convoys were purchased in 1990 by News of the World and were part of News International - group. However, only about 10 % of convoys newspaper imports were passed on to the parent company to the peak in mid -1990s. Beginning of the 1990s increased the tonnage steadily and reached almost one million to one per year. End of the 1990s, a ban on truck traffic in Greenwich (Greenwich Lorry Ban ) was introduced and increased the time required and the cost of the paper transport of the Convoys Wharf to the delivery points considerably, so that the trade to Felixstowe and Chatham migrated.
In 1993 the premises by law no longer Greenwich, Lewisham but was slammed.
Planning application
2002 asked News International to the London Borough of Lewisham planning permission for the construction of 3,500 housing units on the site. The district administration Lewisham granted consent in May 2005. In July 2008, approval had still by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson be signed. The mayor may order a rejection and he probably will continue to do so.
Should the Mayor approve the application, it shall be the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government presented. The reasons for this lecture are also in a government directive that would protect half of the site as an industrial monument. Since docks on the Thames in 1997 were protected by the Environment Secretary John Gummer as industrial monuments, only one in operation Dock was lost without public inquiry to a residential area. This was the Delta / Blackwall Wharf, a port facility, as part of the Greenwich Peninsula - Master Plan was rebuilt.
On 18 May 2005, a joint venture company committed with equal proportions of Cheung Kong Holdings and Hutchison Whampoa to buy the Convoy's Wharf and to develop into a Wohn-/Gewerbe-Mischgebiet.
2008 Hutchinson Whampoa bought a 16 -hectare plot of News International, and in November 2009 they reached again the plan for the £ 700 million expensive construction of 3,500 housing units a. The plans included the smallest changes to the Master Plan of 2005, the Richard Rogers Partnership, although Hutchison Whampoa Aedas bought to replace Rogers.
Which is listed as a value obtained by building Grade II Olympic warehouse needs to be maintained as part of the renovation and restoration.
Protest
In October 2000 the Creekside Forum Convoys Wharf an umbrella organization formed in response to the plans of News International Ltd.. , The 161,874 sqm Convoys Wharf site to sell. The Convoy's community, which consists of community organist ions, churches, shops and others in Deptford and beyond, campaigned to reject the plans of News International and instead hold on to it, to protect the site as an industrial monument.
London is one of the few cities that, despite adequate water depth do not have a specially -built cruise ship terminal. If the request passes to Mayor Boris Johnson, Hazel Blears Convoys Opportunity will ask the application submitted to the Minister for a decision (after a public inquiry ).