London properties to rent it was of vital
importance to London for centuries - as early as
the 7th century the Venerable Bede wrote that the Pool was
the reason for London's existence - but reached its peak in
the 18th and 19th centuries. By this time the river was lined
with nearly continuous walls of wharves running for miles
along both banks, and hundreds of ships moored in the river
or alongside the quays.
The congestion was so extreme that it was said to be possible
to walk across the Thames London properties to rent
simply by stepping from ship to ship. London's Docklands had
their origins in the lack of capacity in the Pool of London,
which prompted landowners to build enclosed docks with better
security and facilities than the Pool's wharves.
The abrupt collapse of commercial traffic in the Thames due
to the introduction of shipping containers and coastal deep-water
ports in the 1960s emptied the Pool and led to all of the
wharves London properties to rent being closed down, and many
being demolished. The area was extensively redeveloped in
the 1980s and 1990s to create new residential and commercial
neighbourhoods.
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