Duke Shore Wharf
Names
- Dick's Shore
- Duke Shore
- Duke's Shore
- Duke Shore Wharf
- Dick Shoare
Street/Area/District
- Duke Shore Wharf
Descriptions
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Dick's Shore, Fore street, Limehouse.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Duke's Shore, Fore-Street, Limehouse,—the first on the R. about five doors from the E. end of Narrow-st.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Duke's-Shore, Limehouse, is the first turning on the right hand in Fore-street, going from the east end of Narrow-street.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Dick Shore, now Duke Shore, Limehouse, a landing-place or stairs for wherries at the Narrow Street end of Fore Street.
January 15, 1660–1661.—After a cup of burnt wine at the tavern there [Woolwich] we took barge and went to Blackwall, and viewed the dock, and the new West dock, which is newly made there, and a brave new merchantman which is to be launched shortly, and they say is to be called the Royal Duke. Hence we walked to Dick Shoare, and thence [probably taking a boat there] to the Towre, and so home.—Pepys.
The place occurs in Dodsley (1761) and in some old maps as "Dick's Shore, Fore Street, Limehouse," together with "Dick's Shore Alley, by Dick's Shore;" but within memory it has only been known as Duke or Duke's Shore.