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| | GENUKI: Blackwall History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | BLACKWALL, a district in the parish of Poplar, Tower division of the hundred of Ossulstone, and borough of the Tower Hamlets, in the county of Middlesex, 4 miles to the E. of St. Paul's. |
 | | The Blackwall railway, which is carried along a viaduct for about 22 miles, was completed in 1841, at a cost of £288,200 per mile, and was worked till 1849 by stationary engines and a wire rope. |
 | | Blackwall is situated on the north bank of the Thames, on Blackwall Reach, where the river Lea falls into it, and is the site of the East India Company's Docks, several extensive shipyards, iron-foundries, and other important establishments connected with the shipping trade. |
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