ORIGINAL DOCKLANDS - Architecture + Transformation Through Wapping

Marsh, boomtown, wasteland and waterside opportunity, Wapping has been called all these things over the past 500 years. One of London’s oldest maritime neighbourhoods, it developed from the 1400s in service to the international port city that in the 19th century simultaneously built it up, laid waste to it and which, in the 20th century left it wanting. Despite its Zone 1 status, the area retains a palpable air of otherness with its industrial relics, waterscapes and Post-Modern homesteads creating severance, but also sancturary from the rest of the city. In this walk, The London Ambler traces the making, unmaking and remaking of Wapping through its best buildings and original dockland landscapes.

A walk by The London Ambler - Mike Althorpe