Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,367 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
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Early in the 19th century the Howland Great Wet Dock at Rotherhithe was equipped with boilers, tanks, etc., for extracting sperm oil from blubber that was brought in by whaling fleets. The name of the dock was changed to Greenland Dock.
1806 The property changed hands and the dock was used for North European trade in timber, tar, corn, etc.
James Walker worked on the Greenland Dock, London (c.1808-c.1862) amongst other engineering projects[1]
1895 Construction of new dock
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