• Blackwall Buildings were housing blocks built in 1890 in Thomas Street, Whitechapel. Its first tenants were rehoused from an area that had been cleared...
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    Blackwall Yard is a small body of water that used to be a shipyard on the River Thames in Blackwall, engaged in ship building and later ship repairs for...
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    The Blackwall Tunnel is a pair of road tunnels underneath the River Thames in east London, England, linking the London Borough of Tower Hamlets with the...
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    Blackwall is an area of Poplar, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, East London. The neighbourhood includes Leamouth and the Coldharbour conservation...
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    the People in London, especially to dwellings called Blackwall Buildings belonging to Blackwall Railway. Such prostitutes were numbered amongst the 11...
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  • Docklands Light Railway Blackwall Buildings - philanthropic housing built by the London and Blackwall Railway in Whitechapel Blackwall, New South Wales - A...
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    northernmost point on the riverside is known as Blackwall Point, and this may have led to the name Blackwall Peninsula sometimes being used in the late 20th...
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    Hospital (now renamed Royal London Hospital) and 100 yards from Blackwall Buildings. Upon inspecting the object, Cross discovered the tarpaulin was actually...
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    responsibilities and led to the building of new philanthropic housing such as Blackwall Buildings and Great Eastern Buildings. By 1890, official slum clearance...
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    (eastern) Blackwall end; lighters entered from the Limehouse end to the west. A dry dock for ship repairs was constructed connecting to Blackwall Basin....
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    the street market. Behind the tube station is the former site of Blackwall Buildings a set of philanthropic houses built in 1890. Just to the east of...
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  • attempt to renew the law outlawing the Social Democratic Party. Blackwall Buildings, Whitechapel, noted philanthropic housing, is built in the East End...
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    century, the number of high-rise buildings in London has grown significantly. Currently, the UK's tallest office buildings are all located in the City of...
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    This lists buildings that are under construction in London and are planned to rise at least 328 feet (100 m). Under construction buildings that have already...
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  • of the first large-scale electrical power station, at Deptford. Blackwall Buildings, Whitechapel, noted philanthropic housing, is built in the East End...
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    London Fire Brigade, principally those of the Blue Watch, at the fictional Blackwall fire station. It began with the movie (pilot), broadcast on 7 December...
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    the area as The Island. This area includes Millwall, Cubitt Town, and Blackwall. The south of the isle opposite Greenwich was once known as North Greenwich...
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  • No hours of sunshine are recorded this month in Westminster. The Blackwall Buildings, Whitechapel, noted philanthropic housing, is built in the East End...
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    East India Docks (category Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets)
    The East India Docks were a group of docks in Blackwall, east London, north-east of the Isle of Dogs. Today only the entrance basin and listed perimeter...
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    domiciliorum Emerton, 1884 Epeira hentzii Keyserling 1864 Epeira lentiginosa Blackwall 1862 Neoscona arkansa Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 Neoscona benjamina Comstock...
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    Coldharbour, Tower Hamlets (category Blackwall, London)
    Coldharbour is a street and wider conservation area in Blackwall, lying on the north bank of the River Thames, east of Canary Wharf. The area is said...
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    Canary Wharf (category Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets)
    June 2023. The West India Docks: The buildings: warehouses, Survey of London: volumes 43 and 44: Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs (1994), pp. 284–300...
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  • the buildings that were later to become Kingsley Hall, Bow. She joined the Quakers in 1918 and moved back to Whitechapel, living in the Blackwall Buildings...
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    a large detour. It connects North Greenwich to Greenwich town centre. Blackwall and District Rowing Club was formed in 1845 and is one of the oldest rowing...
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    Hood Gardens housing complex (overlooking the northern portal of the Blackwall Tunnel) – designed by architects Peter and Alison Smithson – and the similarly...
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    Fenchurch Street railway station (category Former London and Blackwall Railway stations)
    trains are operated by c2c. Services run on lines built by the London and Blackwall Railway (L&BR) and the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LTSR) are...
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    the City of London.[citation needed] A redevelopment scheme, known as Blackwall Reach, involves the demolition of Robin Hood Gardens as part of a wider...
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    Balfron Tower (category Ernő Goldfinger buildings)
    Blackwall Tunnel. It was designed by Ernő Goldfinger in 1963 for the London County Council, built 1965–67 by the GLC, and has been a listed building since...
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    and to the north — across the Blue Bridge — is Blackwall. The district is situated within the Blackwall & Cubitt Town Ward of Tower Hamlets London Borough...
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    Mulberry Place (category Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets)
    Mulberry Place, formerly Tower Hamlets Town Hall, is a building in Nutmeg Lane, Blackwall, London. It was the headquarters of Tower Hamlets London Borough...
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