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Dist:0.1km north<br/>The ventilation shafts serve the newer southbound bore of the tunnel which was opened in 1967. They were designed by the architect Terry Farrell and were Grade II listed in 2000. The Ontario Tower is on the New Providence Wharf development and was completed in 2007. It has 260 residential flats and 169 hotel rooms arranged over 32 floors and is about 104 metres high. This view was taken from Blackwall Way.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.1km north<br/>Ventilation shafts for Blackwall Tunnel with new developments in the background.
©Peter McDermott
Dist:0.1km north<br/>Amongst all the redevelopment in the Docklands there are occasional pockets of older buildings. Against the backdrop of the New Providence Wharf development is this terrace of Edwardian houses, viewed across Preston's Road. They were built by the former London County Council in 1904 as part of a scheme to provide social housing as cottage estates rather than the unpopular block dwellings. Originally there were 14 two-bedroom cottages but a 1960s modernization scheme converted them to 8 houses. The darkish green one is currently advertised for sale with four double bedrooms at about £460,000. The terrace is now Grade II listed.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Poplar Dock was London's first railway dock when it opened in 1851, and belonged to various railway companies until it eventually closed in 1981. Today it is a marina with about 90 berths. In the background is the New Providence Wharf development.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.2km north<br/>The line down the middle of the avenue represents the Greenwich Meridian, and carries on up the building in the distance. Incidentally don't take your GPS receiver to this line and expect it to read 0&#730; 00' 00".00000 W longitude! This is because the GPS system uses World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84) longitudes which are defined, simply, in terms of the geometric centre of the Earth, whereas the Greenwich Meridian is defined in terms of the gravitational centre of the Earth, which is slightly different. 0&#730; 00' 00".00000 W longitude on your GPS should appear about 100 metres east of this location, near the Virginia Quay memorial, whereas you should read about 0&#730; 00' 05".7 W longitude here on this line. As an aside (!) this is the Barratt-built Virginia Quay housing development.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.2km north<br/>The new tunnel provides a two lane roadway heading south. The original Victorian tunnel runs to the west of this one.
©Pete Chapman
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Looking across the Thames from the outflow from the Blackwall Basin, towards the Millennium Dome at Greenwich on the other side of the river.
©Christine Matthews
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Old wharves in use as a marina with the Millennium Dome in the background.
©Simon Leatherdale
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©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.4km north<br/>An unusual view of Brunswick Wharf (Blackwall) and West Ham [[TQ3881]] power stations through a hole in a dock wall, off Blackwall Way
©Pierre Terre
Dist:0.4km north<br/>The elevated nature of the DLR, so typical of this area, is shown with this view of East India station. A westbound train is just arriving. The road is Blackwall Way, and the distant high building is the HSBC tower at Canary Wharf.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.4km north<br/>View from Trafalgar Way looking across Blackwall Basin towards Preston's Road with the O2 Arena in the background.
©Peter McDermott
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©Ian Paterson
Dist:0.4km north<br/>This was taken from the north bank of the river looking SSE. The prime meridian runs across the foreground and is marked by a strip of metal in the pavement. The photographer was in the western hemisphere and the three people in the photo are in the eastern hemisphere
©Nigel Mykura
Dist:0.4km north<br/>On the marble base of the memorial it reads: VIRGINIA QUAY The Virginia Settlers' Memorial Tablet was unveiled in 1928 on the wall of Brunswick House which formerly stood about 100 yards to the west of this point. In 1999 Barratt Homes Limited reinstated this monument and commissioned "The Mariner's Astrolabe" by Wendy Taylor CBE. The tablet itself reads: From near this spot December 19, 1606 sailed with 105 "Adventurers" the "Susan Constant", 100 tons, Capt. Christopher Newport in supreme command the "Godspeed", 40 tons, Capt. Bartholomew Gosnold the "Discovery", 20 tons, Capt. John Ratcliffe landed at Cape Henry, Virginia April 26, 1607 arrived at Jamestown, Virginia May 13, 1607 where these "Adventurers" founded the first permanent English colony in America Under the leadership of the intrepid Capt. John Smith, Edward Maria Wingfield, President of the Council, the Reverend Robert Hunt, and others at Jamestown, July 30, 1619 was convened the first representative assembly in America. Erected by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia antiquities in 1928 in commemoration
©Nigel Cox

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