EPW059933 ENGLAND (1938). Surrey Commercial Docks, Rotherhithe, 1938

The original Holy Trinity Church that was flattened in 1940??

Horn Steps and Cuckold's Point - the Pool of London's eastern or downstream limit. This stretch of the Thames up to London Bridge was the old heart of dockland, prior to the expansion of the docks eastward from 1799 when the construction of the West India Docks on the Isle of Dogs was authorised by Act of Parliament. The work was completed in 1802. As tall ships could not pass under London Bridge, this was the natural western limit of the Pool of London. See: http://www.pla.co.uk/Port-Trade/History-of-the-Port-of-London-pre-1908#18 Horn Steps were the southern end of the Limehouse Hole ferry the ran the Limehouse Pier. Cuckold's Point was also the site of one of two gibbets from which the tarred and chained corpses of executed pirates were hung, as a warning to passing mariners. The other gibbet was at Blackwall Point, Greenwich, at what is now the back of the O2 stadium. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_Dock

Rotherhithe Tunnel, 30/09/2014