[Leica] Coaling Piers and things

[leica at web-options.com (Bob W)]

Hi,

yes - I've seen the book. I'm making my own way along the full length of the
river, bit by bit, by foot and by pedal. I'll be walking from Lechlade to
Oxford one long weekend in spring, then just a few miles at the estuary and
I'm done.

The railway tracks are still embedded in the cobblestones there along the
riverside walk. They run more or less along the line of the Greenwich
Meridian. In the evenings nowadays a laser beam shines above the pier,
projected from the old Royal Observatory.

Bob

> 
> Bob,
> 
> FWIW, have you come across a book called "Liquid History - 
> The Thames through
> Time" by Stephen Croad? It's a collection of photographs of 
> the Thames going
> back to the mid 1800s and is well worth a look if you are at 
> all intersted in
> the history of the river in photographs.
> 
> There is a picture from 1993 of the generating station and 
> pier. The Pier was
> designed by Sir Maurice FitzMaurice in 1903-5 and featured a 
> systetm of railway
> trucks that ran to the external coal bunkers.
> 
> Peter Dzwig
> 
> 
> >>> This is the coaling pier at Greenwich Power Station.
> > > Colliers used to dock
> >>> > >> alongside and offload coal to fire the electricity 
> generators.
> >>> > >>
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