Wapping (East London)

A neighborhood in East London on the banks of the River Thames. Its proximity to the river has shaped the geography and history of the place. Wapping has small streets and alleys where for most of its history lived sailors, shipyard, stevedores and other naval associations. At present, these trades have disappeared shipping activity is part of the recall. In the seventies and eighties, the loading / unloading of goods moved from the port of London to the town of Tilbury. The neighbourhood has preserved some of its original features such as cranes, pave conservation in some of the streets, arcades, etc..

Cities change and reinvent themselves. New York's Soho neighborhood, the Chueca neighborhood of Madrid, Le Marais in Paris and the Puerto Madero of Buenos Aires are good examples of this fact. How does this happen? Usually it is artists who look for new and cheap spaces who rescue the beauty of these sites, giving it a new character. Then follow the shops, restaurants and bars. With Wapping, old fishing district of east London, has been the same. The area, whose protagonist is the River Thames, was full of tanneries, hydroelectric, accommodations for sailors, houses facing directly into the river, and 'public houses' or pubs where alcohol flowed like water.