{"id":17393,"date":"2025-05-19T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T08:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=17393"},"modified":"2025-05-16T10:48:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T09:48:29","slug":"around-emmett-street-limehouse-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=17393","title":{"rendered":"Around Emmett Street, Limehouse 1990"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Around Emmett Street, Limehouse<\/strong>: My walk in Limehouse on Sunday 6th January 1990 continued. The previous post from this walk is Three Colt Street & Limekiln Dock \u2013 1990<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Datakeep,<\/a>\n<\/div>
Datakeep, Emmett St, Limehouse, Tower Hamlets, 1990, 90-1b-13<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

You won’t find Emmett Street on a map of Limehouse now. It ran from the southern end of Three Colt Street to meet West Ferry Road a few yards to the north of the Limehouse Entrance and Limehouse Basin the the West India Docks. Along its west side were a number of wharves – Taylor’s Wharf, Aberdeen Wharf, River Plate Wharf etc, the dry docks of Limekiln Dockyard and Limehouse Dry Dock and a dock at Aberdeen Wharf. This area was Limehouse Hole and included Limehouse Stairs from which a ferry once ran to Rotherhithe from what later became called Limehouse Pier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Milligan<\/a>\n<\/div>
Milligan St, Limehouse Causeway, Limehouse, Tower Hamlets, 1990, 90-1b-15<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dundee Wharf, Aberdeen Wharf and the River Plate Wharf were were all part of the Dunbar Wharves. They ran regular twice weekly services to Scotland as well as importing goods from around the world – including meat from Argentina, and Oxo cubes were at one time wrapped here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Datakeep,<\/a>\n<\/div>
Datakeep, River Thames, Milligan St, Emmett St, Limehouse, Tower Hamlets, 1990, 90-1b-16<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Emmett Street had at some time been known as Limekiln Hill – and West Ferry Road was earlier Bridge Road. These names were still used on the 1870 OS map, although The Survey of London<\/a> says it was known as Emmett Street about 1830.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Datakeep,<\/a>\n<\/div>
Datakeep, Emmett St, Limehouse, Tower Hamlets, 1990, 90-1c-63<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The land in this area was owned by the Emmett family who began selling it off in 1809 but their name remained on the street until it was completely obliterated with the building of the Limehouse Link Tunnel shortly after I made these pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Datakeep,<\/a>\n<\/div>
Datakeep, Emmett St, Limehouse, Tower Hamlets, 1990, 90-1c-64<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Much of the area had been cleared earlier by wartime bombing and the some large warehouses were rebuilt in the following years. The remaining 1870s warehouses were demolished in 1971-2 and the rest destroyed for the building of the road tunnel and Canary Riverside including Westferry Circus. You can read a detailed and well-illustrated article Limehouse Hole<\/a> by Mick Lemmerman on the Isle of Dogs web Site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Datakeep set out to provide secure storage for computer backup tapes in the largest warehouse in the area, formerly use for tea and coffee. The company later stored all kinds of things, including a 1935 vintage Bentley and offered a wide range of services to companies for their stored items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More from Limehouse in a later post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Around Emmett Street, Limehouse: My walk in Limehouse on Sunday 6th January 1990 continued. The previous post from this walk is Three Colt Street & Limekiln Dock \u2013 1990. You won’t find Emmett Street on a map of Limehouse now. It ran from the southern end of Three Colt Street to meet West Ferry Road … Continue reading Around Emmett Street, Limehouse 1990<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[1336,20525,20532,20529,20534,20530,734,20531,20533,20521,20526,6615,20520,1740,20524,6690,6616,20167,20523,20522,20527,17,1343,20405,83,442,20535,20528,6689],"class_list":["post-17393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-londonphotos","category-my-own-work","tag-1336","tag-aberdeen-wharf","tag-backup-tapes","tag-bridge-road","tag-business-services","tag-canary-riverside","tag-canary-wharf","tag-computer-backup","tag-data-recovery","tag-datakeep","tag-dunbar-wharves","tag-emmett-st","tag-emmett-street","tag-limehouse","tag-limehouse-causeway","tag-limehouse-hole","tag-limehouse-link","tag-limehouse-link-tunnel","tag-limehouse-pier","tag-limehouse-stairs","tag-limekiln-hillv","tag-london","tag-london-photos","tag-milligan-st","tag-peter-marshall","tag-tower-hamlets","tag-vintage-bentley","tag-west-ferry-road","tag-westferry-circus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17395,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17393\/revisions\/17395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}