London 1981
Peter MARSHALL
Gun Wharves, Wapping High St, Wapping, 1981
29g-36: street, warehouses, Tower Hamlets, lorry, hoist,
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Norfolk Textiles Ltd were still working from Gun Wharves at 128-130 Wapping High St (Warehouses A and B) in 1981. The company appears to have been dissolved and struck off in 1995, but had moved from Gun Wharves well before that.
The listing text includes:
128-130 (Warehouses A and B) are more ornate and the bays are treated as a giant arcade with deep plat band beneath first floor and flush band level with capitals of pilasters. Again, there are three loading bays. Paired iron frame with windows with mullions and lintels. H-section girder hoists; housings for roof mounted cranes.
The listing text includes:
128-130 (Warehouses A and B) are more ornate and the bays are treated as a giant arcade with deep plat band beneath first floor and flush band level with capitals of pilasters. Again, there are three loading bays. Paired iron frame with windows with mullions and lintels. H-section girder hoists; housings for roof mounted cranes.