Curated category
Port of London
- GreenwichThe name Greenwich first appeared in an Anglo-Saxon charter from the year 918, recorded as Gronewic. By 964, scribes wrote it as Grenewic, and the…
- Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding CompanyThe year 1837 marked the birth of a shipbuilding venture in Deptford. Thomas J. Ditchburn and Charles John Mare founded the Ditchburn and Mare Shipbuilding…
- Regent's CanalThe Regent's Canal stretches from the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal to the Limehouse Basin and River Thames. It begins north-west of Paddington…