St Katharine Docks in London

10 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, London Reading Time:  11 minutes

Ivory House © geograph.org.uk - Peter Trimming/cc-by-sa-2.0

Ivory House © geograph.org.uk – Peter Trimming/cc-by-sa-2.0

St Katharine Docks is a former dock in the St Katherine and Wapping ward of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It lies in the East End on the north bank of the River Thames, immediately downstream of the Tower of London and Tower Bridge. From 1828 to 1968, it was one of the commercial docks that made up the Port of London. It is in the redevelopment zone known as the London Docklands and is now a popular housing and leisure complex.   read more…

Pie and mash

26 January 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon appétit, London Reading Time:  9 minutes

© Goddards Pies Limited/cc-by-sa-4.0

© Goddards Pies Limited/cc-by-sa-4.0

Pie and mash is a traditional working-class food, originating in the Docks of London. Often accompanied with jellied eels, the dish has been popularised as “a Cockney classic”. It typically consists of a minced beef pie, mashed potato, and a parsley sauce known as liquor. Pie, mash and eel shops have been in London since the 19th century, and are still common in East and South London, and in many parts of Kent and Essex.   read more…

Whitechapel in London

10 December 2022 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, London Reading Time:  7 minutes

Brick Lane © Jwslubbock/cc-by-sa-4.0

Brick Lane © Jwslubbock/cc-by-sa-4.0

Whitechapel is a district in East London and the future administrative centre of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is a part of the East End of London, 3.4 miles (5.5 km) east of Charing Cross. Part of the historic county of Middlesex, the area formed a civil and ecclesiastical parish after splitting from the ancient parish of Stepney in the 14th century. It became part of the County of London in 1889 and Greater London in 1965. Because the area is close to the London Docklands and east of the City of London, it has been a popular place for immigrants and the working class.   read more…

Tower Bridge in London

2 June 2021 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, London Reading Time:  7 minutes

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© Fuzzypiggy/cc-by-sa-3.0

Tower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894. The bridge crosses the River Thames close to the Tower of London and St Katharine Docks and has become a world-famous symbol of London. As a result, it is sometimes confused with London Bridge, about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) upstream. Tower Bridge is one of five London bridges owned and maintained by the Bridge House Estates, a charitable trust overseen by the City of London Corporation. It is the only one of the trust’s bridges not to connect the City of London directly to the Southwark bank, as its northern landfall is in Tower Hamlets.   read more…

The Docklands in London

23 January 2013 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, London Reading Time:  9 minutes

Canary Wharf from Thames © S nova

Canary Wharf from Thames © S nova

Docklands is the semi-official name for an area in east and southeast London. It forms part of the boroughs of Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Lewisham, Newham and Greenwich. The docks were formerly part of the Port of London, at one time the world’s largest port. They have now been redeveloped principally for commercial and residential use. The name London Docklands was used for the first time in a government report on redevelopment plans in 1971 but has since become virtually universally adopted. It also created conflict between the new and old communities of the London Docklands.   read more…

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