Wapping Collection (page 2)

LFB fireboat Massey Shaw tackling a warehouse fire
The Massey Shaw fireboat at its first major riverside warehouse fire on the River Thames. The Colonial Wharf fire in Wapping High Street E1 occurred on 27 September 1935

Male Child found dead -- reward poster

Docks / Wapping / 1800
The docks at Wapping. Date: 1800

Wapping Docks
A large steamship moored against the quay at Wapping Docks. Pen & ink drawing (with watercolour wash) by Raymond Sheppard

Procession through the Thames Tunnel, 1843
Engraving showing the procession through the Thames Tunnel, between Rotherhithe and Wapping, to mark its opening on 25 March 1843

Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, 1843
Engraving showing Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849), the French engineer and inventor, as he appeared at the opening of the Thames Tunnel, from Rotherhithe to Wapping, on 25th March 1843

Thames Tunnel Company worker with a Medallion of Sir Marc Is
Engraving showing a worker of the Thames Tunnel Company holding a medallion of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849), at the opening of the tunnel between Rotherhithe and Wapping, 25 March 1843

The Wapping Concert
A satire on Madame Mara, a concert singer. She sang at the Handel Commemoration in Westminster Abbey in 1784 and 1785. She had rickets in her childhood - hence Le Genou Inflexible

Rail / Wapping Tunnel / 1830
LIVERPOOL - MANCHESTER RAILWAY Warehouses at the end of the Wapping Tunnel

Rail / Moorish Arch / 1830
LIVERPOOL - MANCHESTER RAILWAY A Moorish style arch, looking from the Wapping Tunnel

Social Scene / Wapping
Working class children playing in a cobbled street in Wapping, east London

Skinnydipping at Wapping
A group of boys skinny dipping on an industrial stretch of the River Thames at Wapping, east London

Thames Railway Tunnel
One train emerges from the railway tunnel beneath the Thames into the station at Wapping while another train plunges into it

Opening of the Thames Tunnel
A picture to commemorate the opening of the Thames Tunnel, connecting Rotherhithe and Wapping, showing the company medallion featuring Sir Marc Isambard Brunel supported by one of the tunnels

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