In 1854 James Soames set up the Thames Steam Soap Works, later called the Thames Soap and Candle Factory on Morden Wharf and the company, Soames & Wilkes (Wilkes, a partner in their earlier Spitalfields soap works had died in 1821) remained making soap and candles there until the 1930s, when they were closed after having been taken over by Unilever. The site was then taken over by Tunnel Glucose based in Alost, Belgium. I think in 1982 it was known as Tunnel Refineries and later became Amylum, Tate & Lyle and finally Syrol, a French company who without giving notice demolished and cleared most of the site in 2010.
 
Maize came in by ship and was stoned in riverside silos, seen at extreme right. The main buildings seen here where where glucose syrup was refined. On the right of the picture are the sites of Hays Chemicals and Greenwich Distillers.