Execution Dock

[madPete]

https://editions.covecollective.org/place/execution-dock

Execution Dock

Execution Dock was the site of a scaffold in Wapping, London, in the modern borough of Tower Hamlets. It was historically used to execute pirates, smugglers and mutineers. The last executions were in 1830.

In London Labour and the London Poor edition: 

Phase 1

Of the Mud-Larks. (Volume 2): "Execution Dock to the lower part of Limehouse Hole, there are 14 stairs or landing-places, by which the mud-larks descend to the shore in order to pursue their employment. There are about as many on the opposite side of the water similarly frequented."

 

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.507217800000
Longitude: -0.127586200000

[Mary Diamond]

Well done, and thank you!

[LadyBarbossa]

How interesting! 

[William Brand]

My ancestors lived at Wapping Wall where execution docks still stands.  Isabella and Richard Pace left for the Jamestown colony in 1611.  They returned to England to secure more goods and to bring over a relative aboard the Royal Navy's Marmaduke in 1621.

[Mary Diamond]

On 6/11/2024 at 7:12 PM, William Brand said:

My ancestors lived at Wapping Wall where execution docks still stands.  Isabella and Richard Pace left for the Jamestown colony in 1611.  They returned to England to secure more goods and to bring over a relative aboard the Royal Navy's Marmaduke in 1621.

Ah, how I wish I could recreate my family’s footsteps - perhaps I will have more time to dedicate over the winter.

[madPete]

While I was searching for period bottles ran across a couple site that identified by year (somewhat) and ran across this... Mudlarking the Thames...

 

https://londonmymind.com/mudlarking-in-london/