This is the Shad Thames, a cobbled street running through the old warehouses of Butlers Wharf, just off of Tower Bridge. Whereas other areas of the Thames riverside have been flattened for redevelopment, these warehouses along with many of their original 19th century features, including the iron bridges and overhead goods gantries which connected the warehouses together have been kept. It is hard to believe now but this was the largest complex of wharves, warehouses and mills on the river Thames. This was the lifeblood of the city keeping it fed and watered. But by the 1970’s, Butler Wharf had become derelict after the Pool of London lost its shipping to coastal deep-water container ports.
Now restored into fashionable shops, apartments and riverside restaurants, many of the converted building were named, and smelled, after the good which were stored in them such as Tea Trade Wharf and Court, Cayenne Court, etc.
I choose to process this shot in LR to give it a slightly Dickensian feel. But then I processed another shot in SilverFex, used and a white vignette so that resembles a late Victorian photo. Confused I placed the other for your viewing pleasure on @theboxmanreturns. Before I go I would like to thanks to all of you who got the St Paul’s photo into the TT. Mightily chuffed Shady.
Instant fav. So much history goes on a place like this. I like that it has not made way to the ugly apartment blocks which sprout and take the place of many beautiful properties.
Very nice.
Nice part of town...I used to work for someone who had a flat in one of the buildings in the left of frame here. Lovely view over the river :)
November 30th, 2016
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Nice part of town...I used to work for someone who had a flat in one of the buildings in the left of frame here. Lovely view over the river :)