Above: View in 1976 of the buildings on the wharf, seen from Nelson Dock, Rotherhithe.
Dundee Wharf (Wharf)
Dundee Wharf was an active wharf until 1969. The wharf is situated on land immediately east of Limekiln Dock. The name derives from being used by the Dundee, Perth & London Shipping Company to operate a twice-weekly service between Leith and London. The area was known as The Dunbar Wharves. – Dundee, Aberdeen, Caledonia and Dunbar. Their office building is by the entrance in Three Colt Street. In 1835 their paddle steamers SS London and SS Perth operated a twice-weekly passenger service to Dundee. In 1909, it was handling carcasses of beef and potatoes. In the 1930s, the wharf was opened with electric cranes. It was destroyed during the Blitz and rebuilt in the 1950s when it was a “fortress-like warehouse” trading in general goods. Buildings on the wharf closed in 1969 and were demolished to allow construction of the Limehouse Link Tunnel, deep in the ground. The tunnel was constructed as a concrete box section at the bottom of an enormous deep trench. The trench was then filled in and the current housing development was erected.
The Dundee, Perth and London Shipping Company was founded in 1826 to carry passengers and cargo. They operated passenger steamer services to London until the outbreak of the Second World War and also maintained cargo shipping routes to St Petersburg and the Mediterranean until 1962. As the DP&L Group, they have been connected to the Chalmers family for 80 years, bought by them in 1993. In 2014 they were sold to Alick Bisset.
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Above: View of the modern development of apartments in 2019, seen from a riverboat. The elegant tower of St Anne, Limehouse, can be seen behind the development.
Dundee Wharf (Development)
The present Dundee Wharf is a group of buildings built in 1997 by Ballymore Properties to designs by the architect Piers Gough, a partner at Campbell, Zogolvich, Wilkinson and Gough (CZWG).
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