The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . called theBrunswick Wharf (now alsoused for the termini of theBlackwall Railway), nearly 700feet in length, with water suffi-cient at all times of the tide tofloat the largest steam ships;and
The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . called theBrunswick Wharf (now alsoused for the termini of theBlackwall Railway), nearly 700feet in length, with water suffi-cient at all times of the tide tofloat the largest steam ships;and the export dock is fur-nished with a powerful andlofty machine, which is able tomast and dismast the largestships. This new steam-boatwharf was designed and exe-cuted with east-iron plates andsheeting, by James Walker,late President of the Instituteof Civil Engineers, in the firstvolume of whose Transactionsit is most elaborately this wharf is the BrunswickTavern, built for the accom-modation of company arrivingor departing by the larger classof steam ships, and for whitebait and dinner parties. Deptford, a large oldtown on the south bank ofthe Thames, in the countyof Kent, about 3 milesfrom London Bridge,has two parishes and anancient dockyard, usedas a Royal dockyard,established by HenryVIIL, who also first erect-ed here a storehouse. Ithas since become a vic-tualling establishment,. a Yard gate. b Spinning house. c Shop. d Smiths shop. e Sawpits. / Pitch house. g Rigging and sail house. h Store Plank Building Basin. PLAN OF DEPTFORD DOCK. DOCKS—DEPTFORD. 345 and, recently, a capacious naval storehouse, with batteries of biscuits forthe Royal Xavy, the very ingenious machinery for which, and for otherpurposes, has been constructed by the Messrs. Rennie. The finest ma-chinery in the world is employed in Deptford Dock-yard, for spinninghemp and manufacturing ropes and cables for the service of the whole detail of
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