The East India Docks Rob Smith Cornelis Ketel “Sir Martin Frobisher” 1577 Walter Raleigh’s House Blackwall Sir James Lancaster Blackwall Yard East Indiamen in a Gale, by Charles Brooking, c. 1759 Perry’s Brunswick Dock Perry’s Dock at Blackwall 1799 William Anderson “Cavalry Embarking at Blackwall” 1793 East India Docks 1806 John Rennie (Senior) Works on London Docks East India Docks West India Docks Hull, Liverpool Docks,Dublin Waterloo Bridge London Bridge (built by son) Southwark Bridge (old) Caen Hill Locks in Devizes Ralph Walker 1749-1824 Works on West India Dock Thames and Medway Canal East London Waterworks Opposed to the use of steam engines Rennie and Walker have to make bricks on site 9 million required Temporary workers accommodation needs to be built Shortage of builders Bricklayers don’t want to work near river for fear of press gang August 1806 dock opened to singing of Rule Britannia Admiral Gardiner first ship in the dock East India company ships are big – 750 tons Often loaded at Greenhithe in Kent Unloaded at Blackwall onto lighters East India Ship Repulse in East India Dock 1820 San Martin (ex-Cumberland), Lautaro, Chacabuco, and Araucano by Thomas Somerscales Thomas Goldsworth Dutton “East Indiamen Madagascar” 1840 East India Dock • Quayside but no warehousing • Imports – silk • Spices • Persian carpets • Tea • Home to the Cutty Sark 'Malacca': Departure of Messrs Green's Frigate 'Malacca' for Bombay from Brunswick Pier, Blackwall, 26 December 1849 Richard Ball Spencer “SS Great Britain at Brunswick Wharf Blackwall” Charles Napier Henry “Blackwall” 1872 Frances McDonald Building the Mulberry Harbour, London Docks 1944 http://footprintsoflondon.com.