Isle Of Dogs Collection

East India Docks, Poplar, London, 1808. Artist: William Daniell
View of the East India Docks, Poplar, London, looking south towards Isle of Dogs with the River Lea on the left, 1808

Great Eastern on the stocks at Millwall on the Thames, 1857. View from the stern, showing the vessel in John Scott Russells (1808-1882) yard

The Idle Prentice Turned Away and Sent to Sea: Industry and Idleness, plate 5, September 30, 1747

Poplar Dock, 1872. Creator: Gustave Doré
Poplar Dock, 1872. Poplar Dock on the Isle of Dogs, originally a series of reservoirs built by the West India Company, in 1828 was converted to a railway dock used mainly to import coal from

The Greenwich Foot Tunnel, London, England, UK, 2 / 3 / 10. Creator: Ethel Davies
The Greenwich Foot Tunnel, London, England, UK, 2/3/10. The Greenwich Foot Tunnel, opened in 1902, crossing underneath the River Thames linking Greenwich to the Isle of Dogs, London SE10, England, UK

Carriers of Londons Food: Unloaded Cargo Boats in the South Dock of the West India Docks, c1935. Ships at the Isle of Dogs on the River Thames in London

Greenwich tunnel, 2007. Creator: Ethel Davies
Entrance to the Greenwich foot tunnel from the Greenwich side, opened in 1902 to enable pedestrians to cross from Greenwich to the Isle of Dogs under the River Thames, Greenwich, London, SE10, England

Docklands, 2005. Creator: Ethel Davies
Inner Millwall Dock with the Lotus Chinese Floating Restaurant in the foreground and Canary Wharf highrise flats and office blocks in the background, Docklands, Isle of Dogs, London, E14, England

Shipyard of James Ash & Co, Cubitt Town, London, c1863. James Ash & Co were builders of iron ships. The company was founded in 1862 but the yard never became profitable

Plan of the River Thames showing the London Docks and the Isle of Dogs, 1797

Greenwich Hospital from the Isle of Dogs, London, c1792. View with figures and cattle in the foreground and ships and boats on the River Thames

View of Greenwich Hospital from the Isle of Dogs, London, c1800. Artist:s Malgo
View of Greenwich Hospital from the Isle of Dogs, London, c1800

Plan of proposed docks at the Isle of Dogs, now the site of West India Docks, London, 1820

Proposed canals and docks, London, 1800. Plan of a proposed canal and wet docks for the Isle of Dogs, to aid West India trade

Greenwich and the Isle of Dogs from the Royal Observatory, London, 1970. A panoramic view showing a misty sky and in the foreground, Greenwich Hospital surrounded by parkland

The idle prentice turn d away and sent to sea, plate V of Industry and Idleness, 1747; the master is obliged to get rid of the idle prentice

Commercial Road, London, 1801. Artist: William Wickings
Commercial Road, London, 1801. A plan of the intended road

Isambard Kingdom Brunel beside the Great Eastern, c1857. Artist: Robert Howlett
Isambard Kingdom Brunel beside the Great Eastern, c1857. Brunel (1806-1859) proposed to the Eastern Steam Navigation Company the construction of a steamship five or six times the size of any then in

Iron ship, Messrs Samudas yard, Isle of Dogs, London, c1880
Iron ship in frame on the stocks, Messrs Samudas yard, Isle of Dogs, London, c1880. A print from Great Industries of Great Britain, Volume I, published by Cassell Petter and Galpin, (London, Paris)

Dockers unloading sugar at West India Docks, London, 1889. Each docker wheels a trolley carrying a single sack which is recorded and marked

Unloading frozen meat from Australia, South West India Dock, Millwall, London, 1881. Interior of the hold of the Catania, which sailed on 28 August from Sydney with nearly 120 tons of meat

Brawl between English and German sailors at Millwall Docks, London, 1892. Artist: Henri Meyer
Brawl between English and German sailors at Millwall Docks, London, 1892. A print from a supplement to the Le Petit Journal, 2nd January 1892

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