28-579: Orchard House Yard (known as Orchard Yard and Hercules Wharf ) was an English shipbuilding yard located at Leamouth , on the River Lea at Bow Creek . Forming part of the Orchard House estate, a number of shipbuilders occupied the site over time: The only known surviving vessel built at the yard is SS Robin , a 300-ton steam-powered coaster which is part of the National Historic Fleet and
56-401: 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
84-613: A race, the odds changing as the fortunes of the contestants changed. Contestants who became champions of the Tyne would often challenge the corresponding champions of the River Thames, and the race would be arranged to take place on one of the two rivers. Rivalry between the Tyne and the Thames was very keen, and rowers who upheld the honour of the Tyne became local heroes. Three such oarsmen, who came from humble backgrounds and became household names in
112-546: 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
140-508: A reputation for their distinctive dialect and accent. Newcastle may have been given this name, a local diminutive of the name "George", because their miners used George Stephenson 's safety lamp (invented in 1815 and called a "Georgie lamp") to prevent firedamp explosions, rather than the Davy lamp used elsewhere. An alternative explanation relates that during the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745
168-694: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Leamouth 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
196-474: Is owed to coal mining . Coal was first known to be dug in Tyneside from superficial seams in around 1200, but there is some evidence from Bede 's writings that it may have been dug as early as 800 AD. Coal was dug from local drift mines and bell pits , and although initially only used locally, it was exported from the port of Newcastle from the mid 14th century onwards. Tyneside had a strategic advantage as far as
224-529: Is still a working shipyard in Wallsend . From early in the 19th century, it was a custom to hold boat races on the Tyne. The Tyne had a large number of keelmen and wherrymen, who handled boats as part of their jobs. As on the River Thames , there were competitions to show who was the best oarsman. As a wherryman did not earn very much, competitive rowing was seen as a quick way of earning extra money. Regattas were held, and provided modest prizes for professionals, but
252-567: The 2011 census was 774,891, making it the eighth most-populous urban area in the United Kingdom . In 2013, the estimated population was 832,469. Politically, the area is mainly covered by the metropolitan boroughs of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , Gateshead , North Tyneside and South Tyneside . The boroughs on the Tyne are joint with Wearside which is in both the ceremonial counties of Durham ( Chester-le-Street ) and Tyne and Wear . The ONS 2011 census had 774,891 census respondents inside
280-477: The keelmen who handled the keels , boats that carried the coal from the riverbanks to the waiting colliers. The Derwent (valley) , a major tributary of the Tyne that rises in County Durham , saw the development of the steel industry from around 1600 onwards. This was led by German immigrant cutlers and sword-makers, probably from around Solingen , who fled from religious persecution at home and settled in
308-575: The "Tyneside Built-up Area" or "Tyneside Urban Area". These figures are a decline from 879,996; this loss was mainly due to the ONS reclassifying Hetton-le-Hole , Houghton-le-Spring , Chester-le-Street and Washington in the Wearside Built-up Area instead of Tyneside. In both the 2001 and 2011 census the area was given the following subdivisions; Gateshead, Jarrow and Tynemouth had boundary changes: The people of Newcastle, called " Geordies ", have
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#1732851076059336-648: The North East, were Harry Clasper , Robert Chambers and James Renforth . Clasper was a champion rower in fours, as well as an innovative boat designer and a successful rowing coach. Chambers and Renforth were oarsmen who excelled at sculling . Both held the World Sculling Championship at different times. The popularity of all three men was such that when they died, many thousands attended their funeral processions, and magnificent funeral monuments were provided by popular subscription in all three cases. At
364-457: The big money was made in challenge races, in which scullers or boat crews would challenge each other to a race over a set distance for a side stake. The crews would usually have backers, who would put up the stake money, as they saw the chance of financial gain from the race. In the days before mass attendances at football matches, races on the river were enormously popular, with tens of thousands attending. Betting would go on both before and during
392-636: 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
420-448: The coal trade was concerned, because collier brigs could be loaded with coal on the Tyne and could sail down the east coast to London. In fact, the burgesses of Newcastle formed a cartel, and were known as the Hostmen . The Hostmen were able gain a monopoly over all of the coal exported from Tyneside, a monopoly which lasted a considerable time. A well-known group of workers on the river were
448-494: The end of the 19th century professional competitive rowing on the Tyne began a gradual decline and would die out entirely leaving the amateur version. Despite its rapid growth in the Industrial Revolution , Tyneside developed one peculiar local custom, the rapper sword dance, which later spread to neighbouring areas of Northumberland and County Durham. During the 1970s and 1980s, there was major industrial decline in
476-573: 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
504-516: 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
532-500: The last of her type still in existence. She was built at Orchard House Yard in 1890 by Mackenzie and is currently located a short distance away in the Royal Victoria Dock . 51°30′31″N 0°00′24″E / 51.5087°N 0.0067°E / 51.5087; 0.0067 This article about a London building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This United Kingdom canal-related article
560-561: 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
588-525: The people of Newcastle declared their allegiance to the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, George I and George II ; whereas the rest of the county of Northumberland , to the north, stood loyal to James Francis Edward Stuart . While Newcastle upon Tyne had been an important local centre since Roman times, and was a major local market town from the Middle Ages, the development of Newcastle and Tyneside
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#1732851076059616-524: The rest of Poplar by the remaining part of 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
644-693: 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
672-621: 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
700-413: The then village of Shotley Bridge , near Consett . The combination of coal and steel industries in the area was the catalyst for further major industrial development in the 19th century, including the shipbuilding industry; at its peak, the Tyneside shipyards were one of the largest centres of shipbuilding in the world and built an entire navy for Japan in the first decade of the 20th century. There
728-408: The traditional British heavy industries , and Tyneside was hit hard. High unemployment rates and the national [Thatcher] government's resolve to push through with economic transformation led to great social unrest with strikes and occasional rioting in depressed areas. From the late 1980s onward, an improving national economy and local regeneration helped the area to recover, and although unemployment
756-642: Was rerouted via Leamouth to provide night links whenever access to Canning Town station is restricted; implemented in September 2018. Tyneside Tyneside is a built-up area across the banks of the River Tyne in Northern England . Residents of the area are commonly referred to as Geordies . The whole area is surrounded by the North East Green Belt . The population of Tyneside as published in
784-418: 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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