Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,113 pages of information and 246,751 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Greenland Dock

From Graces Guide
1868. The Old Greenland Dock.

1696 Royal Assent was given to a bill for the construction of a wet dock at Rotherhithe, some 10 acres in extent, which was called the Howland Great Wet Dock after a Streatham family to whom the property belonged. The dock was built as a harbourage and fitting-out place for ships rather than for commercial purposes. This became the nucleus what was eventually the Surrey Commercial Docks system.

Early in the 19th century the Howland Great Wet Dock at Rotherhithe was equipped with boilers, tanks, etc., for extracting sperm oil from blubber that was brought in by whaling fleets. The name of the dock was changed to Greenland Dock.

1806 The property changed hands and the dock was used for North European trade in timber, tar, corn, etc.

James Walker worked on the Greenland Dock, London (c.1808-c.1862) amongst other engineering projects[1]

1895 Construction of new dock

Part of the Surrey Docks


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