Burrells Wharf

Burrells Wharf is a riverside residential estate in London, England in the south-central Docklands. Rectangular and adjoining on a shorter side the River Thames (facing Deptford) Burrells Wharf is in part of Poplar historically and sometimes termed Millwall on the Isle of Dogs close to that part of Poplar which became Cubitt Town in the 19th century. The latter twin riverside communities have a shared large green area including a city farm. The residential estate is one of 18 buildings or groups of buildings on the peninsula to be architecturally listed in the national sense.

For centuries all of Millwall and Cubitt Town was an occasionally flooded but fertile meadow land, supporting a small Middlesex fishing, watermen and farming community. By the 19th century Millwall Iron Works had been built on this land. From 1855-58 Sir William Fairbairn built early iron ships here and undertook the model tests for the development of the box girder original Britannia Bridge which connected Anglesey until damaged by fire and replaced with a different type of tall bridge.

John Scott Russell bought the works and was instrumental in building here The SS Great Eastern, where it was launched. This was an uppermost size steam and sail ship built in 1858 and designed by engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The ship may not have lasted long in its commercial use, but the shipyard and site where it was launched have fared better.

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