Qualla: Wapping https://qualla.com/wapping en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/wapping-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Wapping https://qualla.com/wapping Wapping: Introduction https://qualla.com/wapping/ Photo credit Original photographer and uploader was Tim giddings at en.wikipedia, Public domain. For over 400 years, until as late as 1830, the Admiralty hanged pirates at Execution Dock on the Wapping foreshore. The condemned were paraded from Marshalsea Prison, across London Bridge, past the Tower of London, and to a gibbet positioned below the low-water mark—beyond the tidal boundary where Admiralty jurisdiction applied. Their bodies were left dangling until the tide had submerged them three times. A replica of the gibbet still stands on the foreshore beside the Prospect of Whitby public house. Wapping has never been a place that forgot its past quietly.

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/wapping-wp/gcpv-wapping-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Wapping: A Marsh Made Habitable https://qualla.com/wapping/ Photo credit Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0. The name Wapping probably derives from *wapol*, meaning marsh—and for centuries that is what the land was. The draining of Wapping Marsh and the consolidation of a river wall along which houses could be built was finally achieved around 1600, after earlier attempts had failed. Se...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/wapping-wp/gcpv-wapping-a-marsh-made-habitable.mp3 0:06 2 full Wapping: A World of Arrivals https://qualla.com/wapping/ Photo credit Andrew Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0. Wapping's position beside the Thames made it a point of arrival for centuries. In the fifteenth century it held seamen from the Low Countries. Irish workers established a community from the sixteenth century onwards, naming a stretch of Cable Street 'Knock Fergus'—the Irish name ...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/wapping-wp/gcpv-wapping-a-world-of-arrivals.mp3 0:06 3 full Wapping: The Marine Police and Captain Kidd https://qualla.com/wapping/ Photo credit Robin Stott, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1798, magistrate Patrick Colquhoun and a Master Mariner named John Harriott established the Marine Police Force in Wapping High Street—said to be England's first police force of any kind. It was created to stop theft and looting from ships anchored in the Pool of London. Its b...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/wapping-wp/gcpv-wapping-the-marine-police-and-captain-kidd.mp3 0:06 4 full Wapping: Fortress Wapping, 1986 https://qualla.com/wapping/ Photo credit Graham Burnett. If re-used a credit would be appreciated but is not compulsory!, CC BY-SA 3.0. In January 1986, Rupert Murdoch moved News International's printing operations to a new plant in Wapping—clandestinely equipped, and staffed with the help of a different union (the EETPU) while the traditional print unions were locked out. Around 6,000 newspaper workers went on s...

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