39-662: Leamouth is a locality in the Blackwall area of Poplar , in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets . The area takes its name from the former Leamouth Wharf and lies on the west side of the confluence of the Bow Creek stretch of the Lea , at its confluence with the River Thames . The neighbourhood consists of two small peninsulas, separated from the rest of Poplar by the remaining part of
78-656: A vestry committee which organised services such as poor relief and road maintenance. Indeed, the whole Isle of Dogs was until the late 20th century referred to as being in Poplar. In 1965, the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar merged with its neighbours to form the new London Borough of Tower Hamlets . Blackwall Yard became a major sea hub, and the district was a significant part of the Port of London , and involved with important voyages for over 400 years. Shipfitting and repair
117-511: A 'cinder heap' and 'barren waste'. It was surrounded by a moat and had canvas sheeting for fencing. The Swifts officially became a professional outfit in November 1894, a move made after one of their players, Cunningham, was denied a return to amateur status. The club resigned from the London FA as a result. Their demise came at the end of March 1895 when the club became bankrupt. Following this,
156-400: A deprived and overcrowded area. In the late 1930s, all homes and shops were demolished in a slum clearing project with residents moved out of the area. The Thames Plate Glass Works was a major employer until its closure 1874; many of the hands – who had migrated to the area from Tyneside and St Helens in the 1840s – followed the glassworks to New Albany, Indiana . The site of
195-667: A field located opposite the West Ham Police Station in West Ham Lane, was called Dunottar Park , after the Castle Line's ship Dunottar Castle . The ground had perimeter fencing and admission was charged at 3 d . Castle Swifts did not remain long at Dunottar Park, having to find a new ground after a dispute with the landlord. One was soon located in fields beside Wakefield Street in East Ham , known as Temple Meadows, which lay in
234-593: A luxury housing complex called Jamestown Harbour over the Blackwall Basin , designed by WCEC Architects for the Wates Group and was completed by 1985. Jamestown Harbour was one of the first housing developments of the London Docklands . With its brick-built warehouse-style exteriors and distinctive blue and red balconies, it was designed to recreate the appearance of traditional river and dockside warehouses. In
273-605: A number of Old Castle Swifts players were absorbed into the newly formed team. Among them were half-backs William Morton, Walter Parks and John Woods , forwards Jamie Lindsay and George Sage , and full-back Robert Stevenson , who became the Ironworks' first ever captain. Goalkeeper David Furnell would also eventually join Thames Ironworks in 1897. The club later became West Ham United . The light blue shirts, white shorts and scarlet socks that were worn by Thames Ironworks from
312-544: A remote part of the East India Dock Road . Improved road connections were made available in the late 20th century. To house the area's workers, there were about 100 small two-storied cottages – built from the 1820s and condemned in 1935. There was the Bow Creek school (founded in 1865), but few shops, and The Crown , a public house, opened about 1840. By the late 19th century the vicinity of Orchard Place had become
351-551: Is still retained as a working wharf , this has special status by the Mayor of London and the Port of London Authority (PLA) as a safeguarded wharf . It is run by Cory Riverside Energy who also managed the Reuse and Recycling Centre which is next to the wharf and for the transportation of waste by barge along the River Thames. The 1980s, Blackwall saw the area first redevelopment project,
390-524: The East India Docks . The northern peninsula lies in a hairpin meander and is named Goodluck Hope after one of the adjacent reaches of the Lea , while the other is known as Orchard Place . The area was traditionally the easternmost part of Middlesex , with Essex on the other side of the Lea. The area was long referred to locally as Bog Island , due to its inaccessibility and propensity to flood; however
429-652: The Isle of Dogs and Canary Wharf . The Thames Path (north bank) National Trail which opened in 1996 is connected to Blackwall, it enters the district at the South Dock Entrance and goes via Coldharbour and Blackwall Way and rejoins the River Thames at Virginia Wharf till the East India Dock at Blackwall Point. Old Castle Swifts Old Castle Swifts Football Club , the first professional football club in Essex ,
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#1733093617944468-651: The Thames , to protect the area from flooding. Along with the rest of Poplar, Blackwall has its origin in the Manor and Ancient Parish of Stepney . While mostly residential, the Poplar Dock and Blackwall Basin provide moorings for vessels. The area's significance derived from its position on an outside curve of the Thames, where currents slowed down, making it a sheltered spot useful to a range of shipping activities. This sheltered position
507-540: The 2000s, a residential development New Providence Wharf began to be built, which was designed and built by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Ballymore Group and saw the Ontario Tower and Providence Tower (now the Charrington Tower ) completed in 2007 and 2016 respectively. The former London and Blackwall Railway ran from Minories to Blackwall by way of Stepney , a distance of three and half miles. This
546-526: The Greenwich Meridian line. In its early years, it apparently attracted a fairly elegant crowd, including William IV on an occasion connected with the opening or expansion of the burgeoning docks in the area. Its prime customer base was emigrants (mostly to Australia) who would wait here until they could board small steamers to take them to the large sea-going liners at Gravesend. In the days of sail, these passengers might have to wait for days or weeks until
585-537: The Thames from Blackwall to the Greenwich Peninsula . The Brunswick Wharf Power Station was built by Poplar Borough Council for the British Electricity Authority (BEA) in 1952, on the site of the former East India Export Dock. The power station was controversial due to potential air pollution in a densely populated part of London. Coldharbour is said to be "the sole remaining fragment of
624-521: The beginning of the 19th century. Leamouth Wharf was the site of the Samuda Brothers , Orchard House Yard and Thames Iron Works shipyards which were major centres of employment. In 1895, Arnold Hills the owner of the Thames Iron Works and foreman Dave Taylor set up a works team , Thames Ironworks F.C. The club would later be reformed as West Ham United F.C. Until 1987, Blackwall
663-587: The building of the Thames Barrier and the artificial raising of the more vulnerable riverside land, means the nickname refers to a now much reduced threat. The area was historically part of the Hamlet of Poplar , an autonomous area of the Manor and Ancient Parish of Stepney . The Hamlet of Poplar became an independent parish in 1817. The civil parish of Poplar had a vestry committee which organised services such as poor relief and road maintenance. Orchard Place
702-523: The club played one further game, a pre-arranged fixture against St Luke's on 16 April, under the name of Old St Luke's. Arnold Hills , the Chairman of Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Co. Ltd , saw the opportunity to fund a works side, so provided the money, in order that he may take over the tenancy of the Hermit Road ground, and Thames Ironworks was born. For the Ironworks' initial season of 1895–96 ,
741-474: The club that was later reformed as West Ham United . Old Castle Swifts Football Club was formed by Scottish shipowner Donald Currie in September 1892 as Castle Swifts Football Club. They were the works team of the ship repair yard of The Castle Shipping Line and initially the majority of the team were drawn from the mainly Scottish workforce, paid for the games they played. Castles Swifts' first home ground,
780-532: The first Blackwall Frigates . The London and Blackwall Railway was one of the earliest railway systems in London, operating from 1840. it was also one of the smallest, running from Fenchurch Street Station in the city to Blackwall, a journey of less than twenty minutes, but which was very important to connect to Gravesend passenger boats. Near the Blackwall railway station was built the Brunswick Hotel, located on
819-569: The form of the Container Cities . The London City Island is a major redevelopment project by architects Glenn Howells that will provide 1,706 homes, stores, shops, restaurants, cafés, and arts facilities including the English National Ballet . Goodluck Hope is a residential-led development by Todd Architects comprising 804 apartments, lofts and townhouses. The Leamouth Peninsula has historically had poor transport links compared to
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#1733093617944858-516: The glass works was subsequently occupied by Pura Foods Pura Foods vegetable oil refinery until its closure in 2006. For many years the sugar firm Fowler's, a significant maker of treacle , was in Leamouth. There were iron and engineering works, and shipping interests such as Samuda Brothers , Castle Shipping Line , Orchard House Yard and the Thames Iron Works . The Thames Ironworks was based at
897-709: The grounds of Temple House, not far from East Ham railway station . The team would change into their kit in the nearby Denmark Inn (now the Denmark Arms ), located on the Barking Road . The Denmark Arms would later be used by many West Ham United fans before matches at the Boleyn Ground . In March 1893 they faced Barking Woodville in the final of the West Ham Charity Cup , held at Clapton 's Spotted Dog ground. The Swifts were two goals down before coming back to win
936-514: The mouth of Bow Creek at the confluence of the Lea and Thames. The yard started at Leamouth Wharf, on the Blackwall side of the Lea, and subsequently extended to include a much larger site at Canning Town, in the parish and borough or West Ham , on the eastern side. These two parts of the shipyard were linked by a chain ferry capable of carrying 200 workers at a time. The yard was responsible for many shipbuilding and other engineering projects including
975-428: The old hamlet of Blackwall" and "one of the last examples of the narrow streets which once characterised the river's perimeter". It is today largely residential and no longer has any industrial and maritime activities. The Coldharbour Conservation Area, designated in 1975 and then expanded in 2008, has several listed historic buildings as well as engineering structures once part of the former docks. Northumberland Wharf
1014-692: The rest of Poplar, today it is connected to it by a main road splitting its halves: the A1020 Lower Lea Crossing which is a local by-pass of the A13 . The "Jubilee" pedestrian bridge across the Lea links the area to the east bank of the Lea, and Canning Town station . Leamouth has been served by the London Buses network for the first time by the D3 to Bethnal Green which starts and ends on Orchard Place since 2017. The N550 between Canning Town station and Blackwall
1053-562: The revolutionary HMS Warrior and the dreadnought HMS Thunderer . The Thames Ironworks Yard shut in 1912, but its work team Thames Ironworks F.C. , founded in 1895, continues to the current day as West Ham United . Another Leamouth shipyard was the repair yard of the Castle Shipping Line, their works team Castle Swifts would indirectly merge with the Thames Ironworks football team in 1895. Trinity Buoy Wharf contains London's only lighthouse. There are also live-work units, many in
1092-649: The stretch of the Thames east of the Isle of Dogs. Blackwall Reach gives its name to Blackwall Point , the northern tip of the Greenwich Peninsula , south of the Thames in Greenwich (and not in Blackwall). Blackwall was historically part of the Hamlet of Poplar , an autonomous area of the Manor and Ancient Parish of Stepney in Middlesex . The Hamlet of Poplar became an independent parish in 1817. The civil parish of Poplar had
1131-460: The tie 4–2, with the goals coming from outside-right Grundy, inside forwards Mitchell and Taylor and an own goal. A local newspaper made the following account of the final: At the end of the 1893–94 season, the team merged with Old St Luke's, and the newly formed team was renamed as Old Castle Swifts, and used Old St Luke's ground in Hermit Road , Canning Town . Hermit Road had been described as
1170-410: The winds were favourable; but by the end of the century the substitution of steam power and rail links on the south bank of the Thames greatly reduced the viability of the hotel. No evidence remains of either the hotel (demolished in the 1920s) or the railway station (demolished 1946); they stood between Jamestown Way and the Thames. The Blackwall Tunnel , opened in 1892–1897, carries road traffic under
1209-535: Was a centre of shipbuilding and repair. This activity principally included Blackwall Yard , the Orchard House Yard and the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company which included land in both Blankwall and Canning Town , which is east of the Lea in the old parish and borough of West Ham . The Blackwall Yard (two of whose former dry docks can still be seen around the present-day Reuters building) built
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1248-646: Was authorised in 1836 as "The Commercial Railway", running close to Commercial Road in the East End of London to the Blackwall railway station . The areas major roads; the A1261 (Aspen Way) and the A102 Blackwall Tunnel Approach Road bring a significant degree of air pollution and community severance. London Buses routes D3 on west-east Blackwall Way, and D6, D7 and N550 on north-south Preston Road give local access to neighbouring Poplar, Leamouth ,
1287-510: Was enhanced by the presence of the Blackwall Rock reef, though this could also be a danger to shipping. A further advantage of the area was that it lay east of the Isle of Dogs, so loading and unloading here avoided that time and effort of sailing round that peninsula to London, while still being very close to the City of London. The area developed on the riverside, next to Poplar 's East Marsh and
1326-478: Was formed by Scottish shipowner Donald Currie in September 1892 as Castle Swifts Football Club . The club's first home ground, located in West Ham , was named Dunottar Park, after the Castle Line company's ship Dunottar Castle . In 1894, Old Castle Swifts merged with Old St Luke's and was renamed. The club was wound up the following season. Its demise saw several players join the newly founded Thames Ironworks ,
1365-520: Was known as Blackwall by at least the 14th century; taking its name from the colour of the river wall, built - with its stairs - in the Middle Ages . Having never been an administrative unit, the area lacks formal definition, but can be broadly described as the part of Poplar close to the Thames on the north-east part of the Isle of Dogs peninsula extending eastward to the confluence of the Thames and Lea . Blackwall gives its name to Blackwall Reach ,
1404-493: Was rerouted via Leamouth to provide night links whenever access to Canning Town station is restricted; implemented in September 2018. Blackwall, London Blackwall is an area of Poplar , in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets , East London . The neighbourhood includes Leamouth and the Coldharbour conservation area . The area takes its name from a historic stretch of riverside wall built along an outside curve of
1443-617: Was taking place by 1485 and shipbuilding would take place in the area later too. In 1576, Martin Frobisher left Blackwall and landed at Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island , claiming it for England (its first overseas possession ) in the name of Queen Elizabeth I . Frobisher was funded by the Muscovy Company seeking the North West Passage . In the early years of the 17th century the port
1482-612: Was the main departure point of the English colonisation of North America and the West Indies launched by the London Company . On 20 December 1606, three ships, Susan Constant , Godspeed and Discovery , sailed from Blackwall, landing in Virginia on 26 April 1607 to establish the first permanent English settlement, Jamestown . The East and West India Docks were constructed at
1521-418: Was the name of its manor house on the spit; this had become an eponymous public house from 1800–60. Orchard Place gives its name to the area's main street with extends into both of the local peninsulas. Always an isolated location, Leamouth was made more inaccessible by the construction of the East India Docks , which opened in 1806. After that, the only access was from Leamouth Road which connects to
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