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St Katharine Docks, London: a horse and cart travelling along the paved road behind the high brick-walled quayside warehouses
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NOTES: Part of the Port of London and built in 1825-1828 by the St Katharine Dock Company, this was the smallest group of London's enclosed docks. Thomas Telford engineered the docks while Philip Hardwick designed the quayside warehouses.
Tower Bridge, London, looking upstream towards the pool of London with the bascules open
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NOTES: This bridge over the Thames was designed by Sir Horace Jones and engineered by Sir John Wolfe Barry.
Tate Gallery, Albert Dock, Liverpool: the foyer
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NOTES: These warehouses were part of the Albert Dock, designed by Jesse Hartley in 1845. They were converted into an art gallery by James Stirling, Michael Wilford & Associates in 1988.
Harbour and quay called the Ripa Grande, Rome
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SOURCE: Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Vedute di Roma (Rome, [1747?-1788]), pl. 27 NOTES: The Ripa Grande in Trastevere was Rome's old port of arrival for goods coming from the Mediterranean.
Small harbour called the Porto di Ripetta, Rome
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SOURCE: Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Vedute di Roma (Rome, [1747?-1788]), pl. 28 NOTES: The Ponte Cavour, built at the end of the 19th century, takes up part of this area.
Ventilation Station for the Queensway Tunnel, Taylor Street, Birkenhead, Merseyside
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NOTES: This brick-clad building contains the ventilation tower for the Queensway Tunnel under the River Mersey connecting Liverpool and Birkenhead.
Design for an accumulator tower, Victoria Docks, London
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NOTES: Accumulator towers in docks of this period provided hydraulic power for the dockside cranes. The building was demolished in the 1920s.