Extra from 9 Elms Riverside: My stroll on Saturday twenty ninth July continued from yesterday’s publish.
On the finish of the William Henry Stroll I photographed a small coastal vessel, the Libation, moored at a brief pier.
As a took just a few pictures the skipper of the vessel got here as much as speak with me. He advised me that he and his mate introduced the ship up on the tide daily with a load of gravel dredged from the estuary, the place it was unloaded by the crane with a seize into the hopper at left of the image. As quickly as I ended the dialog and moved on I regretted I had not requested him if I may take his image, but it surely was too late to return.
The Battersea Barge is on the west finish of this part of stroll, instantly west of the Heathwall pumping station. And though the world round has modified utterly the Battersea Barge continues to be there, a Nineteen Thirties Dutch barge transformed to a floating bar and restaurant, a lot in demand for personal events, although it now appears solely to supply a bar to which individuals are welcome to deliver their very own meals – and there are numerous native retailers which have now opened. And it now has a sister ship close by, one other transformed Dutch barge, the Tamesis, a “walk-on neighbourhood bar, stay music & occasions area” moored close by.
Till round 2008 the trail right here was reached by an pretty slender alley beside a warehouse, however the industrial properties alongside this aspect of 9 Elms Lane had been substitute from 2012 on by tall residential blocks, a part of the immense improvement that has taken place within the 9 Elms space.
The dock right here was initially Manor Home Wharf and a dock bumped into the fuel works on the opposite aspect of 9 Elms Lane. The jetty at Imperial Wharf allowed bigger ships to unload coal right here.
The jetty for the 9 Elms Fuel Works was rebuilt in 1952 to deal with the flatiron coastal colliers which introduced coal to the works. The fuel works had begun right here in 1858 and had been taken over by the Fuel Mild and Coke Firm in 1883 who ran them till nationalisation in 1949. The fuel works closed in 1970 when the UK modified to pure fuel.
There are actually extra houseboats moored right here in what’s now referred to as 9 Elms Pier.
On the west finish of the Tideway Stroll I used the steps as much as the jetty to take this and a panorama format picture from the identical place – beneath. Each are wanting upstream in direction of Battersea Energy Station at left and its jetties and cranes, and on the opposite aspect of the river the 1875 chimney for the Western Pumping Station on Grosvenor Highway.
The Tideway Stroll ends right here, turning south to Kirtling Avenue, which leads again to the primary street. The riverside right here continues to be in industrial use because the Cringle Dock Stable Waste Switch Station. Again in 1989 there was an extended stroll earlier than you might entry the river at Chelsea Bridge and Battersea Park, however now you possibly can go down Cringle Avenue to the Battersea Energy Station improvement.
My description of this stroll continues in a later publish in direction of Battersea.
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