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	Albert Dock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Albert Dock in Liverpool, England, was opened in 1846 by its namesake, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
		The dock closed to shipping in 1972 and suffered from dereliction for a period until it was redeveloped in the early 1980s by the Merseyside Development Corporation; this work included rebuilding a top corner of a warehouse which had been knocked off by a WWII bomb.
		The dock water was used as the location for the weather forecast: presenter Fred Talbot used a floating map of the British Isles to describe the outlook.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albert_Dock (369 words)

	Royal Docks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Royal Docks comprise three docks in east London - the Royal Albert Dock, the Royal Victoria Dock and the King George V Dock.
		The three docks were built between 1880 and 1921 on riverside marshes in the London borough of Newham.
		The Royal Docks have also seen the development of London City Airport (code LCY), opened in 1988 on the quay between the Royal Albert Dock and the King George V dock.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Docks (735 words)

	Victorian London - Thames - Docks - Royal Albert Dock
		In the centre of the North Quay and fronting the open space are the dock offices, the greater part of the remaining space on this side being occupied by a couple of vast ranges of tobacco warehouses and by an immense extent of coal sidings.
		The Royal Albert Dock, though at first sight beyond all comparison larger than the old, and actually double its length, is not really quite so large, nor does it afford quite the same extent of quay and jetty frontage, even in proportion to its size.
		These two docks are pierced in the western end of the Southern Quay, and between the coal-tips and the mast shears; the latter of which, capable of dealing with the heaviest spars, have a private siding of their own communicating with the general railway system.
	www.victorianlondon.org /thames/royalalbertdock.htm (1277 words)

	LDDC Completion Booklet - Royal Docks
		By contrast, the Royal Docks were at the forefront of technology for a good many years and enjoyed a period of great prosperity before the end came suddenly in 1981.
		In 1981 the Royal Docks and the surrounding areas of North Woolwich and Silvertown were areas of economic and social deprivation, characterised by inadequate and poor social and community facilities.
		As the Royal Docks were still in use until after the LDDC was set up, they were not able to extend their efforts to these.
	www.lddc-history.org.uk /royals (5905 words)

	London City Airport - Royal Docks History
		The King George V Dock was opened in 1921, completing the Royal group of docks which, as a whole, formed the largest area of impounded water in the world.
		By 1978 the financial losses incurred by the upper docks, and the Royals in particular, had brought the PLA to the brink of insolvency.
		Losses in the Royal Docks, excluding interest and central overheads, increased from £4.6m per annum in 1978 to £6.7m per annum in 1981, and in consequence the decision was taken to close the West India and Millwall Docks in 1980.
	www.lcacc.org /history/rdhist.html (1095 words)

	History of the Albert Dock
		Albert Dock did not have this and the warehouses, which had once been a major selling point, now prevented expansion.
		The main visitors to the dock were coastal vessels, with barges bringing cargo from other docks for storage at the Albert Dock warehouses.
		However, like many of Liverpool's historic docks the Albert Dock was due for a revival, and new life came with the opening of the Merseyside Maritime Museum in 1980.
	www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk /maritime/albertdock/historyofthealbertdock.asp (865 words)

	Royal Albert Dock: Waterscape.com
		Royal Albert Dock was opened in 1880 as an extension of the Royal Victoria Dock, deeper this time, and with a wider entrance to allow the largest steamships to enter the port.
		In fact it was, at the time, the largest dock in the world at three quarters of a mile long, and it was the first London dock to be lit by electricity.
		As with the other London docks, use declined during the mid-20th Century and it was eventually closed in the late 1960s.
	www.waterscape.com /servicesdirectory/Royal_Albert_Dock (157 words)

	Changing methods - The Docks in the Twentieth Century - London Docklands History for GCSE - The London borough of ...
		Changing methods - The Docks in the Twentieth Century - London Docklands History for GCSE - The London borough of Barking and Dagenham.
		E: Frozen meat being discharged at the Royal Albert Dock, 1962.
		G: Cross-section trough the north quay of King George V Dock, 1921.
	www.bardaglea.org.uk /docklands/9-20c-change.html (121 words)

	New Docks - Building the Docks - London Docklands History for GCSE - The London borough of Barking and Dagenham.
		Railways were also on important feature of the Millwall Dock (1868) and the Royal Albert Dock (1880) where railway lines ran right on to the quayside.
		The building of the Royal Albert Dock (owned by the London and St Katharine Docks Company) threatened to take ships away from the docks upstream and added to the already fierce competition for trade between the dock companies.
		The last dock to be built was the King George V Dock which was opened in 1921.
	www.bardaglea.org.uk /docklands/4-building-new.html (212 words)

	RoDMA: Royal Docks Management Authority Limited
		The 250 acres of water area comprise the Royal Victoria, Royal Albert and King George V docks, the smaller Pontoon Dock and Albert Basin, and the King George V and Gallions locks providing access to the River Thames.
		Defined areas of the water are designated for established leisure use, with waterskiing and wet-bikes operating in the King George V Dock, rowing in the 2000 metre Royal Albert Dock, and sailing, canoeing and windsurfing in the Royal Victoria Dock.
		Transit to mooring within the Royal Docks may, depending upon air draft, necessitate the opening of road and footbridges, operation of which is restricted between 0730 - 0930 and 1630 - 1830, Monday to Friday.
	www.rodma.co.uk /scaleofcharges.htm (2028 words)

	Newham in Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Victoria Dock at Silvertown was opened by Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert in 1855, followed by the Royal Albert Dock which opened in 1880 by the Duke of Connaught, the Queen's son.
		The King George V Dock was officially opened by King George himself on 8th July 1921 after the PLA had originally announced the building of two more docks in 1911 - the last was never built.
		Containerisation of cargo, began the demise of east London's Royal Docks in the late 1960s, and Tilbury gradually took over as the premier port for London bound goods.
	www.lalamy.demon.co.uk /royals.htm (97 words)

	Albert Dock in Liverpool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Albert Dock was opened in 1846 and soon became a focus for exotic cargos arriving from all around the world.
		When the Dock was closed to official duties in 1972, a redevelopment singing to the tune of £100 million has transformed it into a shopping, restaurant and drinking haven.
		A groovy feature of Albert Dock is the over-sized weather map left behind when the daytime TV Show 'This Morning' left Liverpool behind for London.
	www.myliverpool.org /liverpool/shops-albertdock.htm (179 words)

	LDDC Water Use Strategy 1997
		Greenland Dock is also used to hold an annual rowing regatta although as the Regatta Centre facilities at the Royal Albert Dock develop, it may increasingly become the focus for such activities.
		The Royal Victoria Dock is an ideal venue for such events; with the foot bridge air draft at 14 metres to bridge soffit, the clearance is sufficient for the development of RYA match racing competitions in the future.
		Although the docks are no longer used for commercial freight, the waterborne transport of construction materials is a significant use of the docks and the river which the Corporation supports.
	www.lddc-history.org.uk /water/index.html (9131 words)

	Victorian London - Thames - Docks - Royal Victoria Dock
		This, the latest of the Dock Companies, is by no means the least enterprising, and several steam-tugs ply up and down the River to bring vessels into the "new docks," which, by the way, are connected with the North Woolwich branch of the Eastern Counties Railway.
		The ground, which was excavated, consisted of the deposit of the Thames, which, like a huge lake or sea, formerly covered all the now green marshes of Essex.
		The Victoria Docks, from the peculiarity of position, cost less, it is said, than any hitherto formed.
	www.victorianlondon.org /thames/royalvictoriadock.htm (1537 words)

	Standard Life's £75m Docklands gamble - [Sunday Herald] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Royal Docks is part of a huge area of dilapidated Victorian and Edwardian docklands stretching from the Blackwall tunnel to the M25 Dartford river crossing.
		These were built between 1855 and 1921 and comprise the Royal Victoria Dock, the Royal Albert Dock and the King George V Dock.
		The Royal Docks were shut by the Port of London Authority in 1980.
	www.sundayherald.com /26784 (768 words)

	Dock Master - University of East London architectural reconstruction Architectural Review, The - Find Articles
		The latest in a series is UEL's Docklands campus, on the north bank of the Royal Albert Dock, miles to the east of the capital's second financial centre in the Isle of Dogs.
		The Royal Albert Dock is a vast rectangular expanse of water originally lined with warehouses and full of the trade of the last years of Empire.
		North of the rail tracks is a pleasant low-density '30s suburb, presumably built for people that worked in the docks, who clearly lived in a great deal more comfort than their grandfathers that laboured in the Victorian docks further up river towards the pool of London.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3575/is_1249_209/ai_73411722 (866 words)

	CULG - Docklands Light Railway
		The opening of the Royal Victoria Dock meant it was necessary to install a swing bridge over the western exit of the dock; rather than live with the inconvenience, the railway was diverted around the north side of the dock, with the original route being retained under the name "Silvertown Tramway".
		The subsequent opening of the Royal Albert Dock further east, with a linking canal between the two, meant another swing bridge; this time the main route was diverted under the dock, with the swing bridge used only by trains too heavy or long for the tunnel.
		Between Beckton Junction and Royal Albert, the present DLR alignment is south of that used by the PLA branch.
	www.davros.org /rail/culg/dockland.html (2714 words)

	AIM25: Royal London Hospital: Albert Dock Seamen's Hospital
		Administrative/Biographical history: The Albert Dock Seamen's Hospital was established in 1890 as a branch of the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, which was founded in 1821.
		The London School of Tropical Medicine was established in the Albert Dock Hospital in October 1899, by Philip Manson-Bahr, and remained there until moving to Euston in February 1920.
		Related material: Records of the Hospital, 1939-1948, are held by the Albert Dock Hospital, for 1935-1986, held by Stratford Reference Library, and for 1900, by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=3973&inst_id=23 (390 words)

	Albert Dock Liverpool - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Albert Dock Liverpool - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Albert Dock, Liverpool, former docks on the River Mersey and now Britain’s most popular heritage attraction, with around 5 million visitors per...
		Liverpool has a number of other striking buildings, including the Port of Liverpool Building, with its large green dome, and the Royal Liver...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Albert_Dock_Liverpool.html (115 words)

	Telegraph \| Entertainment \| College designs are top of the forms
		Nearly a mile and a half long - the longest dock in Europe - and as wide as a mighty river, it was once lined with ships from every corner of the globe, the hub of a great empire.
		Cross the river to the Royal Naval College at Greenwich, the finest collection of Baroque buildings in Britain, and for centuries the proud symbol of its naval power, but now abandoned by the Royal Navy.
		The former Royal Naval College is an exceptional building and few other universities will have the chance to acquire settings of such instant distinction.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2000/02/24/bagile24.xml (933 words)

	London docks, a photo study of London's docklands in 1980
		The docks have helped London become one of the greatest trading cities in the world, and created its cosmopolitan nature with waves of Jewish immigrants arriving in 1653, French Protestant Huguenot silk weavers in 1685, followed by Jewish settlers from Poland, Romania and Russia between 1870 and 1914.
		The first, the Royal Victoria dock, was opened in 1855 with The Royal Albert dock following in 1880.
		The last of the Royal Docks to be built was the King George V dock, opened in 1921.
	www.urban75.org /london/docks.html (543 words)

	tourism and real estate, London Docklands, Royal Docks
		The Royal Docks Group are the biggest complex of man-made Docks in the world and were the last to close, so ending 400 years of Docks development in London.
		The Royal Docks is home to London City Airport, currently carrying over a million passengers a year to main European cities.
		The London Docklands Campus occupies 10 hectares of the Royal Albert Dock waterfront and caters for 5,000 students.
	www.london-docklands.co.uk /tours/royaldock/toursroyal.htm (350 words)

	Albert Dock - UK Special offers
		The Albert Dock is Britain's most popular heritage attraction and three times winner of the Best Large Attraction in the North West award.
		The Albert Dock is a vision of the past...
		Albert Dock is situated on Liverpool's famous waterfront adjacent to the Pier Head, a mere...
	www.searchhut.co.uk /albert-dock.htm (186 words)

	Museum in Docklands - The development of London's port and docks
		The Millwall Dock on the Isle of Dogs opened in 1868; the Royal Albert Dock in 1880 and the Tilbury Dock in 1886.
		Within a few years there were simply too many dock facilities competing for trade, and by the 1890s nearly all the dock companies were in serious financial difficulty.
		A royal commission identified poor management as the core problem and in 1909 the Port of London Authority (PLA) was established to take over from the private dock companies and take responsibility for the whole port.
	www.museumindocklands.org.uk /English/EventsExhibitions/Themes/DevelopmentPortDocks.htm (749 words)

	Royal Docks, London
		The Royal Docks, the last area to be redeveloped in the Docklands, extend to the east of the River Lea.
		The Victoria Dock was opened in 1855 and the Albert Dock in 1880, attracting the chemical, cable and food industries.
		In 1922 the last dock, the King George V, was opened.
	www.planetware.com /london/royal-docks-gb-l-rd.htm (95 words)

	King George V docks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It could be fun travelling on a 101 bus from North Woolwich to East Ham when these bridges (this one and the one a little further on for the Royal Albert dock) were opening and closing.
		The docks were run down for some time before they finally closed.
		The warehouses have now been cleared between this and the Royal Albert dock, seen behind.
	www.yellins.com /woolwichferry/thames/kgv.html (102 words)

	Unloading barrels at the Royal Albert Dock - - Port Cities
		Unloading barrels at the Royal Albert Dock - - Port Cities
		Description: Unloading barrels at the Royal Albert Dock in 1914.
		The Royal Albert opened in 1880 and at the time was the largest dock in the world.
	www.portcities.org.uk /server/show/conMediaFile.3725/Unloading-barrels-at-the-Royal-Albert-Dock.html (52 words)

	index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		London Regatta Centre is owned by Royal Albert Dock Trust, a charity set up to provide facilities (particularly watersport facilities) for those who do not have them.
		London Regatta Centre was opened by HRH the Princess Royal in March 2000.
		The scheme included lengthening the Royal Albert Dock by moving Woolwich Manor Way some 200 metres to the east, to provide a 2,000 metre international standard Rowing course for a future London Olympic bid.
	website.lineone.net /~radt (295 words)

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