EAW045692 ENGLAND (1952). Trinity Wharf, Rotherhithe, 1952. This image was marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing.

Site of Holy Trinity Church (destroyed 1940, rebuilt 1959)

South Wharf Receiving Station, Metropolitan Asylum Board, Rotherhithe Street, SE16. One of the three places (the other two were at Poplar and Fulham) in London to which smallpox victims would be brought during the epidemics at the turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries, for onward transport by ambulance ships ('Red Cross', 'White Cross', 'Geneva Cross', 'Albert Victor' and 'Maltese Cross') to Dartford. Three hospital ships were moored there from 1882, (Atlas [men's wards], Endymion [administration, kitchen and stores] and Castalia [women's wards]) being replaced by the Long Reach Hospital on adjacent land in 1902. The hospital ships were taken out of service and sold in 1904. After the smallpox epidemic, South Wharf Receiving Station and the ambulance ships were used for patients with highly infections diseases such as diphtheria until the 1930s when replaced by road transport. In 1939, the London County Council passed the site to the Auxiliary Fire Service as a station for river fire boats. The image show the extensive bomb damage inflicted by the Germans during the War. See images EPW001410, EPW046833 & EPW024256 Lost Hospitals of London - https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/southwharf.html http://dartfordhospitalhistories.org.uk/long-reach/long-reach-introduction/ for a photograph of the three original hospital ships - https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0006809EB.jpg/full/full/0/default.jpg and for two photographs of the entrance to South Wharf - https://wellcomecollection.org/images?query=South+Wharf

South Wharf river fire station, now Surrey Docks Farm, Rotherhithe