epw037972 ENGLAND (1932). The River Thames from Southwark Bridge to the Isle of Dogs, London, 1932

London Docks

Whitechapel Road

Cable Street

Eastcheap

Cannon Street

Commercial Road

Limehouse Basin

Greenwich Royal Observatory

Jamaica Road

Royal Victoria Yard (Site of Deptford Dockyard)

Foreign Cattle Market

Lavender Dock

Greenland Dock

Greenwich Royal Naval College

St Alphege's Church Greenwich

Greenwich Power Station

Cherry Garden Pier

East India Dock

Shadwell Basin

Lavender Pond, Surrey Docks

Blackwall Basin

Millwall Dock

West India Docks (North Dock)

London Docks

Courage Brewery

21-23 Park Street

Cromwell Buildings Redcross Way

All Saints Church, Newby Place, Poplar, 17/02/2015

Roman Catholic Church of the English Martyrs, Prescot Street, 17/02/2015

St. Paul's Seamens Church, Dock Street, 17/02/2015

Hermitage Basin, 17/02/2015

The Windmill public house

St. Mary's Church, Rotherhithe, 30/09/2014

St. Margaret Patten's Church, 30/09/2014

St. Mary at Hill Church, 30/09/2014

St. Magnus the Martyr's Church, 30/09/2014

Guild Church of St. Mary Abchurch, 30/09/2014

Listed 29 Martin Lane, 30/09/2014

Tower Bridge Approach

Saint Mary Somerset

Butler's Wharf Area

Bankside 1960's

Tower Bridge

The Tower of London

Tower of London

Old London Bridge

Saint Michael Paternoster Royal

Saint Katherine's Dock

On Southwark Bridge looking South

City Hall Area Today

Saint Dunstan in the East

Saint John's Churchyard

Southwark Park

Fenchurch Street Railway Station

Clink Prison Museum

Thames Walk towards Tower Bridge

Saint Thomas Street

Borough Market

Trinity Square

Saint James Garlickhythe

Southwark Street

Thames walk towards Tower Bridge

Katherine's Dock Area

Shad Thames Area

Toer of London Riverside

Southwark Street

Sumner Street

Tower Bridge Road

Bankside at low tide

Saint James Church Bermondsey

Saint Katherine's Dock

Site of new railway bridge for London Bridge Station

Borough High Street (This area has been going through major changes for the Shard of Glass, the new London Bridge Quarter, the new London Bridge Station and Railway Bridge and the new (but old style) Borough Market.

"Shard of Glass" now occupies this spot

London Bridge Station (going through major changes till 2018)

Guy's Hospital old Operating Theatre

Billingsgate Market

The Tower of London

The Monument to the Great Fire of London 1666

Bankside Gas Works

Anchor Public House

Tower Bridge

Canon Street Station

Borough Market--Recently modernised, but retains it's Dickensian charm

Sumner Buildings, Sumner Street. Survived WW2 bombing and recent massive improvement to the whole area.

Now the Millennium Dome.... or whatever it is called this week!

Now the Docklands development area.

Borough Market Junction - the notorious bottle neck on the approach to Cannon Street, Holborn Viaduct and Charing Cross Stations of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway. In 2013 it is being widened with new bridge over the market: a job that should have been done by the Southern Railway as long ago as 1924, or by the British Railways Modernisation Plan in 1955, or by Beeching after 1963 his Reshaping of Britain's Railways Report, but has only been carried out as part of the second shot at Thameslink. How many hours of delays at this bottleneck have added to the cost of operating this piece of line over nearly a century since it first became a problem. Cost to both the railway and its passengers. This inertia to meet problems of growth and change, as with the demise of the docks (see another tag), has all added to the decline of much of the effective and efficient economy in post-imperial Britain, while other sections of the economy (for example bank) streaked head.

Cargo being transferred to barges as well as to warehouses. The barges would carry cargo up river to places like Brentford Dock EPW006188 and EPW001670 where it would be transferred again for forwarding by rail. It was one of the labour intensive and therefore costly operational practices that did so much to cause the demise of the Port of London due to lack of adaptation to new cargo handling methods in the 1960s while places like Rotterdam forged ahead with investment and change. The barges also supplied many riverside industries in such places as Wandsworth and Fulham, industries that relied on the river for there imported raw materials. Some of these industrial buildings survey today (2013) converted into apartments, where they have not been demolished in favour of new residential building. Thus the linear industrial zone through the centre of London westwards from the Docks has disappeared to be replaced by a zone of up-market housing.

London Bridge was the limited of navigation for nearly all ocean going shipping. West of London Bridge the only sea going vessels were the colliers with mast and funnels that could be lowered to go under the fixed bridges, en route to power stations such as Battersea.

The Isle of Dogs.

The Pool of London - the piece of water between Tower Bridge and London Bridge.

St. James Garlickhythe Church was rebuilt after the Great Fire of London by Sir Christopher Wren.

Southwark Bridge

London Bridge

Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie, Southwark

St. Anne's Church designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor

St. George's in the East Church designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor

Saint Peter's Church bombed in WW2