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