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| | Greenwich Industrial History Society, Issue 2 |
 | | Thames Water Belvedere Road, Abbey Wood (Minibus from Abbey Wood Station). |
 | | By the second half of the 19th century iron plate and, later, steel were beginning to replace wood as the material of choice for the manufacture of large and medium sized vessels (note the Iron Shipbuilding Yards to the west of Wood Wharf on the OS maps of 1865 and 1895). |
 | | Working parts were made from wood, and since iron was scarce and therefore expensive, the bearings for the main drive shaft connected to the waterwheel would have been of stone, prepared by a local stonemason. |
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