Wapping
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Wapping is an area in the borough of Tower Hamlets in London, England. It is in East London and part of the East End. Wapping is on the north bank of the River Thames, and was at one time a district w
Wapping High Street
Heinkel He 111 bomber over the Surrey docks and Wapping in the East End of London on 7 September 1940
Wapping, looking north. From left on the Thames are the police boat yard, the Marine Policing Unit (cyan roof) and Wapping Pier. Wapping Gardens are centre-left by the John Orwell Sports Centre. Trees lining Wapping Ornamental Canal lead from left towards the old Tobacco Dock and Wapping Woods. Shadwell Basin is at right.
Wapping Old Stairs
William Kidd
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William Kidd, also known as Captain William Kidd or simply Captain Kidd, was a Scottish privateer. Conflicting accounts exist regarding his early life, but he was likely born in Dundee and later settl
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…dock was located within their jurisdiction by being located far enough offshore as to be beyond the low-tide mark. It was used to kill the notorious Captain Kidd. Many prisoners would be executed together as a public event in front of a crowd of onlookers after being paraded from the Marshalsea Prison across…
Portrait by James Thornhill
Captain Kidd in New York Harbor, in a c. 1920 painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
The Charles Galley, a contemporary vessel of a comparable design to Adventure Galley
Howard Pyle's painting of Kidd in New York Harbor