Sailing barge at Greenmoor Wharf rubbish depot Bankside 20th century 16th Century it was a community

it was a community

It was built after the old palace burnt down on the night of 16 October 1834

which was not replaced until 1881

The chaotic rush to catch the last post at the General Post Office in St Martin's-le-Grand became such an event in Victorian London that people came to watch

Until the middle of the twentieth century

Sailing barge at Greenmoor Wharf rubbish depot Bankside 20th century 16th Century it was a communitySailing barge moored at Greenmoor Wharf, Bankside. George Davison Reid photographed this skipper aboard his sailing barge while it was moored at Greenmoor Wharf, Bankside. This wharf was the site of Southwark Corporation's rubbish depot. Once this barge was loaded with refuse, it would head downriver to the estuary. The only crew would be the skipper and his mate. Reid photographed the wharf and this skipper a number of times as part of his extensive