Warehouse at New Star Wharf
Warehouse at New Star Wharf
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Warehouse at New Star Wharf
SC_PHL_01_392_A367 (Collage 118818)
London Metropolitan Archives: LCC Photograph Library
Linde British Refrigeration Works warehouse at New Star Wharf, 54-58 Lower Shadwell, looking south. The building is three-storey with a one-storey annex. It has arched doors and windows and the annex has a domed roof. On the front wall is engraved ‘Linde British Refrigeration Company Limd 1887’ and below this ‘Ice Factory and Cold Stores’. Below this is painted ‘New Crane Wharf Shadwell Warehouse’. The company’s headquarters were at New Crane Wharf, which is in Wapping. In front of the building at the left is a pile of crates and there is another crate in the centre, where there is also a seated man reading a newspaper and above him on the second floor a hoist. At the right outside the annex is a truck loaded with crates. Professor Dr Karl von Linde developed a new refrigeration technique and opened the Shadwell warehouse in 1887. It stored frozen geese and chicken from Russia, which were shipped on to London, Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool. By 1889 20,000 were shipped over the three winter months. The warehouse was demolished in 1921 to make way for the King Edward VII Memorial Park, which opened in 1922 and was Shadwell’s first park.
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