The Surrey Commercial Docks (in use as shipyards from at least 1696), Rotherhithe, included: Canada Dock, Canadas Pond, Albion Dock, Stave Dock, Russia Dock, Globe Pond, Lavender Dock, Acorn Pond, Lady Dock, Norway Dock, Greenland Dock, South Dock, Commercial Basin, Quebec Pond, Centre Pond, West Dock, plus various interconnecting canals and basins. The docks closed in 1969.
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| A map of the docks. |
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| Greenland Dock. |
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| Greenland Dock. |
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| Canada Dock. |
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| Plaque from an electrically driven pump, once used at Lavender Dock. |
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| Pump from Lavender Dock. |
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| Surrey Commercial Docks in 1825. |
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| Surrey Commercial Docks map. |
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