Lifeboats and Lifeboat-men by C F Staniland-Testing self-righting boat...
A lifeboat's self-righting power is tested by tipping it over with a crane at the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's store yard beside the Limehouse Cut c.1885 Illustrations for "Lifeboats and Lifeboat-men... More
Testing lifeboat in Limehouse Cut
A lifeboat's self-righting power is tested by tipping it over with a crane at the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's store yard beside the Limehouse Cut c.1885 Illustrations for "Lifeboats and Lifeboat-men... More
'"The Times", 23 September 1865
The Limehouse Cut in London's East End was polluted. Reformers sought to improve it, as in this letter extract.
'Oracle', 28 September 1798
News item illustrating the insalubrious state of the Limehouse Cut, London
A Perspective and Political View of the Timber Yard at L------e
Political cartoon. The entrepreneur Charles Dingley stands for Parliament against radical John Wilkes. In the background is Dingley's sawmill at Limehouse (the first in England, but which was smashed by a mo... More
Dod Street meetings, Limehouse
Socialist street meetings were held here during the 1880s and were addressed by Bernard Shaw, Eleanor Marx, William Morris and others.
East London Observer
Indignation meeting in Limehouse at plan to erect smallpox hospital in crowded working district. (Facsimile of report in East London Observer, 13 January 1877.)
Horwood's 1819 map showing the Limehouse Cut, London
1. The Island. 2. Britannia Bridge. 3. Huddart's Patent Cable Works. 4. Stinkhouse Bridge.
Limehouse Middx 1809 - A drawing of a building with a clock tower
An 1809 print showing part of Limehouse during the Napoleonic wars. In the background is Anne's Church and the newly opened Commercial Road. The area is sill mainly rural. In the foreground is the Limehouse... More
Caricature, The Earthly Paradox, public domain cartoon image
William Morris is shown metaphorically having his boots blacked by the law in Dod Street, Limehouse. ( Unlike plebeian demonstrators, the law treated him lightly.)