Tag: Docks

• The Albion Disaster

  

  For a time I worked amongst the glass towers of Canary Wharf, where the history of Docklands tickled my historical fancy. I regularly found myself stalking the exhibits of the Museum of London during my lunch hour and I paid a visit to Tunnel, the Archaeology of Crossrail where I learnt more about a Victorian disaster most…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  February 27, 2017

  Engineering, History, London, Lost, Memorial

  Albion, Black and White, Blackwall, disaster, Docks, Footage, Forgotten, Leamouth, London, Poplar, Thames, West Ham

• The Lost Docks, Prince and Engineer of Southwark

  

  On a chilly Sunday morning, Steve and I went to Bermondsey tube station to go on a tour of Thames-side Southwark, led by the charismatic Tim Thomas (who wore the best flat cap I’ve ever seen). An actor (gleefully telling us it was he who bumped off Simon Callow in the third act of Four Weddings and…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  March 23, 2015

  American, churches, History, literature, London, Prostitute, Religion, Tours

  Bermondsey, Bungle, Docks, George, Heritage, Port of London, Prince Lee Boo, rainbow, Rotherhithe, Southwark, The Mayflower, Zippy