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	St Katharine Docks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		St Katharine Docks were one of the commercial docks serving London, and are situated on the north side of the river Thames just east (downstream) of the Tower of London and Tower Bridge.
		St Katharine Docks took their name from the former hospital of St Catherine by the Tower, built in the 12th century, which stood on the site.
		St Katharine's Pier is located close to the St Katharine Dock, providing a river boat connection to the Docklands and Greenwich in the east and the West End in the west on the commuter service, and a fast connection to the London Eye on the visitor service.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/St_Katharine_Docks (569 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: St Katharine Docks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		St Katherine's Docks were one of the commercial docks serving London, and are situated on the north side of the river Thames just east (downstream) of the Tower of London and Tower Bridge.
		St Katherine's Docks took their name from the former hospital of St Catherine by the Tower, built in the 12th century, which stood on the site.
		St Katherine's Pier is located close to the St Katherine Dock, providing a river boat connection to the Docklands and Greenwich in the east and the West End in the west on the commuter service, and a fast connection to the London Eye on the visitor service.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/St-Katharine-Docks (1662 words)

	Victorian London - Thames - Docks - St. Katherine's
		The west dock, which is shaped like a bishop's mitre, the apex being towards the entrance in the north-east corner, covers a space of four acres, and is surrounded for the greater part of its extent with lofty warehouses.
		The St. Katharine Docks have a quay and jetty frontage of 4,450 feet, and the warehouses are furnished on an unusually elaborate scale with hydraulic machinery of the most modern description.
		Katharine's Dock, which was built, by the bye, in 1828, belongs to the same company as the London and the Victoria and Albert Docks.
	www.victorianlondon.org /thames/stkatherines.htm (931 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: London Docks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		They were the closest docks to the City of London, apart from St Katharine Docks, which were built two decades later.
		The docks specialised in high-value luxury commodities such as ivory, spices, coffee and cocoa as well as wine and wool, for which elegant warehouses and wine cellars were constructed.
		The docks were finally closed to shipping in 1969 and sold to the borough of Tower Hamlets, which filled in the western portion of the London Docks with the (unrealised) intention of turning them into public housing estates.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/London-Docks (949 words)

	Tower Hamlets On-Line: St Katharine's
		The 'Royal Foundation of St Katharine' remained on the Priory's land, in the Pool of London, until the early nineteenth century.
		The traders won their argument and St Katharine Docks were constructed in just two years, beginning in 1825.
		In St Katharine Docks, a number of boats were carrying paraffin wax, ready to be stored in the nearby warehouses.
	www.raggedschoolmuseum.org.uk /thol/pool/stkath_3.shtml (337 words)

	St. Katharines
		Katharine’s Dock had been the westernmost of these warehouse-lined dockyards, the last mooring before the Tower drawbridge impeded ocean-going ships.
		Also reachable on foot from St. Katharine’s are: St. Paul’s Cathedral, Wren’s Monument to the Great Fire, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, the Bank of England Museum, the Tate Modern museum of art, Southwark Cathedral, the historic pubs of Wapping and Limehouse, and All Hallows by the Tower church.
		For the most part the docks and warehouses were not rebuilt after the war, and the area remained a derelict eyesore on the east end of London.
	www.homeatfirst.com /st.htm (1509 words)

	East End history, London history, End End of London, Tower Hamlets, St Katharine Dock, Tower Bridge, Pool of London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		While the huge docks of the Isle of Dogs and beyond were hidden to anyone but East Enders themselves, tourists and Londoners alike only have to wander a few yards east of Tower Bridge to be in the heart of one of the relics of the Pool of London.
		It was also one of the first of the moribund docks to be brought back to life: long before Canary Wharf and Yuppie housing were a twinkle in the planners’ eyes, St Katharine’s Dock had become a berth for luxury watercraft and a popular watering hole, thanks to the Dickens Inn and the Tower Hotel.
		When St Katharine's Hospital was pulled down in 1827 it brought to an end an association dating back to 1148, when Matilda of Boulogne, the wife of the usurping king of England, Stephen, established a hospital for the repose of her two deceased children.
	www.eastlondonhistory.com /st%20katharine%20dock.htm (790 words)

	Victorian London - Thames - Docks - Character of
		The West India Import Dock, covering a space of 30 acres, is approached at the western extremity from the Limehouse Basin, 1¼ acres in extent, and at the eastern extremity from the Blackwall Basin, 6¾ acres.
		The dock can accommodate at one time from 80,000 to 100,000 tons of shipping, according as the individual vessels concerned are long or short in proportion to their draught and beam, and this brings us to one of the great difficulties with which under the present system the dock companies have to deal.
		The space between it and the West India Import Dock of 300 ft. in width, is occupied by the rum and mahogany sheds, the latter occupying the extremities and the former the middle portion.
	www.victorianlondon.org /thames/docks.htm (4009 words)

	Boat Dock - AskTheBrain.com
		Public boat docks, barbecue grills, volleyball courts and a playground for the children are situated amongst rows of beautiful date palms and cobblestone streets.
		St Katharine Docks St Katharine Docks is a splendid oasis where historic boats and yachts provide the centrepiece for one of the most picturesque sites in central London.
		Docks were man-made basins of water that enabled ships to moor out of the way of the river while their cargoes were being unloaded onto smaller canal boats.
	www.askthebrain.com /boat_dock-.html (382 words)

	EoLFHS Parishes: St Katharine by the Tower
		Katharine's became a Royal Peculiar with its own ecclesiastical court and in civil matters responsible only to the Master and Lord Chancellor.
		The area was fairly well kept and comparatively healthy, but the promoters of the scheme to convert the area into wet docks described it as a collection of hovels inhabited by the lowest sections of the community.
		The Act to establish St. Katharine's Dock was passed in 1825 and on 30th October 1825 the church was packed for the final service.
	www.eolfhs.org.uk /parish/st_katharine.htm (269 words)

	Audile Paradigmatics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The piece, entitled 'Motion', exploits the stunning environment of St Katharine Docks, whilst evoking the experience of motion, both physical and emotional.
		St Katharine Docks is located adjacent to Tower Bridge and the Tower of London.
		A four channel, audience activated, sound installation exploring the diverse aspects of MOTION is proposed for the Coronarium in St Katharine Docks.
	www.users.bigpond.com /audile/motion.htm (1010 words)

	BRIEF HISTORY DURING THE SNOW ERA
		Saint Katherine's Dock was built between 1825 and 1828 on 23 acres next to the River Thames, situated between the Tower of London and the London Docks.
		In 1825 the St Katharine Docks Bill was adopted by Parliament, authorizing the purchase of the Royal Foundation of Saint Katharine and all its property.
		Despite extensive protests, the St. Katharine's Church and 11,300 habitants of the area were dispossessed of their leased homes and land, to make way for the new commercial dock.
	www.ph.ucla.edu /epi/snow/1859map/stkatharines_dock_a2.html (343 words)

	St Katharine Docks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The St Katharine Docks were one of the commercial docks serving London, and are situated on the north side of the river Thames just east(downstream) of the Tower of London and Tower Bridge.
		The St Katharine Docks took their name from the former hospital of St Katharine by theTower, built in the 12th century, which stood on the site.
		Theywere amalgamated in 1864 with the neighbouring London Docks.
	www.therfcc.org /st-katharine-docks-110048.html (415 words)

	Guidez.net: City - Landmarks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It is on the edge of the City and it's history started back in the 12th century when a Hospital and a Chapel was built near the Tower by Queen Matilda.
		As a result of World War II bombs destroyed warehouses, and additionally the ships increased in size so in 1968 St. Katharine's Docks were closed and refurbished.
		Katharine's Dock is a very beautifull and peacefull place to go and is really worth a visit.
	www.guidez.net /place=176/topic=38/sight=505/article=55 (118 words)

	St Katharine Docks - London's docks and shipping - Port Cities
		The docks were renowned for handling the trade in luxury items and for the vast magnificent warehouses that lined the quays.
		At the St Katharine Docks, around 32 acres of warehouse space was allotted to the wool trade alone, accommodating 500-600,000 bales of wool.
		The St Katharine Docks were primarily designed for sailing ships, and this was to bring problems in later years as ship technology progressed.
	www.portcities.org.uk /london/server/show/ConFactFile.77/St-Katharine-Docks.html (906 words)

	stkatherinesdock
		The establishment of the dock can be traced back to the time of King Edgar (959-975), who had originally sanctioned the use of land here for trade.
		Followed by a dock at Wapping, the St Katharine Docks Bill was passed in 1825.
		The docks' design, with warehouses sited directly along the quayside, meant it was possible for ships to offload their cargos directly, without the need for additional handling or transport.
	bedfordu3a.homestead.com /stkatherinesdock.html (502 words)

	St Katharine Docks - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The St Katharine Docks took their name from the former hospital of St_Katharine_by_the_Tower, built in the 12th_century, which stood on the site.
		Telford aimed to minimise the amount of quayside activity and specified that the docks' warehouses be built right on the quayside so that goods could be unloaded directly into the warehouses (designed by the architect Philip_Hardwick).
		The St Katharine Docks were badly damaged by German bombing during the Second_World_War and never fully recovered thereafter.
	www.indexsuche.com /St_Katharine_Docks.html (438 words)

	St Katharine's Dock, London E1: tourist information from TourUK
		St Katharine's Dock, the most central of the capital's docks, flourished during the 19th and early-20th centuries but by the mid-20th century the dock became too small to handle the new, larger, container ships.
		In 1973 St Katharine's was transformed as one of London's most successful redevelopments, with residential and commercial areas and entertainment facilities.
		St Katharine's Haven is a yacht marina with a lighthouse ship and has a group of russet-sailed, turn-of-the-century barges.
	www.touruk.co.uk /london_sights/stkatherinesdock1.htm (237 words)

	London Docklands - Expansion - New Docks
		The Vicloria Dock which was opened in 1855 was significantly different from earlier docks.
		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/2-new.html (184 words)

	London Docklands - The Closure of the Docks - The Closure of the Docks
		London Docklands - The Closure of the Docks - The Closure of the Docks
		Yet in 1967 the East India Dock closed, followed one year later by the London and St Katharine Docks.
		Although the docks had become increasingly mechanised, it was still the case twenty years after the war that many goods were handled in much the same way as they had been a century earlier.
	www.bardaglea.org.uk /docklands/9-closure.html (486 words)

	London Docklands - Commodities2 - The Docks in Operation
		The Surrey docks also handled grain, which otherwise was channelled through the Millwall and West India Docks.
		At St Katharine's Docks we handled ivory from Africa and perfume from France.
		At the Victoria and Albert Docks, we handed melons from Spain, peaches from Italy, tobacco in hogshead and case: at Tilbury, cases of Medeira brought in by the West Africa line.
	www.bardaglea.org.uk /docklands/3-commodities2.html (240 words)

	St Katharine Docks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The St Katharine Docks were one of the commercial docks London and are situated on the north of the river Thames just east (downstream) of the Tower of London and Tower Bridge.
		In 1909 the Port of London Authority took over the management of almost of the Thames docks including the St The St Katharine Docks were badly damaged German bombing during the Second World War and never fully recovered thereafter.
		Most of the original warehouses were and mostly replaced by modern commercial buildings the early 1970s with the docks themselves becoming a The development has often been cited as model example of successful urban redevelopment.
	www.freeglossary.com /St_Katharine_Docks (753 words)

	Tower Hamlets On-Line: St Katharine's
		In 1150, a hospice was built on church land close to the Tower of London.
		The docks provided space for ships carrying goods to load and unload, at a time when the River Thames was London's main transport route.
		St Katharine's Hospice has been re-housed in a new home on Butcher Row, Ratcliffe and continues to help the poor.
	www.raggedschoolmuseum.org.uk /thol/pool/stkath_1.shtml (172 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| 'Build a tower block? Not in our dockyard'
		It is known as a haven of tranquillity in the heart of the city where Government ministers and captains of industry retreat after a hard day at the office.
		But St Katharine Docks in east London is at the centre of plans to build a tower block that residents have likened to Torremolinos.
		Ruth Kelly, the Secretary of State for communities, who lives in St Katharine Docks with her husband and children, refused to reveal her feelings on the issue.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/30/ndock30.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/05/30/ixuknews.html (609 words)

	Pool of London: St Katharine Docks - Public Exhibition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Times are a-changing at St Katharine Docks, this time it is not due to war damage or the winding down of warehouse use on the riverside.
		St Katharine's Investments LP (the new owners of the docks) have exciting plans to revamp the docks with new shops, offices and residential accommodation, as well as better public areas, more restaurants and more activity on the quayside.
		Everyone is invited to a public exhibition of the plans at International House, St Katharine's Way.
	www.pooloflondon.co.uk /news.builder/00306.html (98 words)

	St. Katharine Docks - 1st 4 London Guide - Landmarks
		Built originally in the 1820s by Thomas Telford, St. Katharine Docks used to enjoy a leading position among all the dock areas as a result of its proximity to the City of London.
		However, as time went on, St. Katharine Docks declined, along with all of London's docklands.
		As part of the massive London Docklands renewal effort, many of the original dockland buildings have now been converted and refurbished and St. Katharine Docks is today a busy commercial, residential and leisure centre.
	www.1st4londonhotels.co.uk /002001.htm (145 words)

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