Limehouse Basin
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Limehouse Basin is a body of water two miles east of London Bridge that is also a navigable link between the River Thames and two of London's canals. First dug in 1820 as the eastern terminus of the n
Limehouse Basin, Canary Wharf in background, October 2015
Collier congestion. (Edward William Cooke, The Thames near Limehouse, called the Lower Pool, British Museum)
Ceremonial opening,The Times, 2 August 1820
Limehouse Basin 1827 with shipping and barges; notice the sloping banks
Pool of London
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The Pool of London is a stretch of the River Thames from London Bridge to below Limehouse.
Limehouse Basin
…to admit 2,000-ton ships. Throughout its working life the basin was better known as the Regent's Canal Dock, and was used to transship goods between the old Port of London and the English canal system. Cargoes handled were chiefly coal and timber, but also ice, and even circus animals, Russian oil and First World War…
A view of the Pool of London, River Thames, around 1938
Legal Quays in 1757, by Louis Peter Boitard
A view of the Pool of London, River Thames, 1841
A ship unloading in 1962