Where on the Thames could you moor a large ship in early modern London?
I believe that there is still a destroyer moored just above Tower Bridge (that is upstream); and when I was little, there were cargo ships being loaded/unloaded in what is called the Pool or Port of London, just up and downstream of Tower Bridge. [Port of London by André Derain] * [Hay’s Wharf] * There, there was just a line of large cranes for loading unloading the ships. The cranes were lowered in respect in 1965 when Sir Winston Churchill’s body/coffin was taken upstream to its burying place in Oxfordshire. I could just see some of them from where I was standing next to the old Tower Hill tube station. The cranes starting disappearing soon after, I believe because the ships became larger and so were handled in deeper harbours like those at Tilbury. [From the page where I found the photo above: Hay’s Wharf in its heyday around 1960. By that time the Hay’s Gro
