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has gloss | eng: Albion Wharf was just downriver of Nelson Dock, in Rotherhithe on the River Thames, London. An old established barge building and repair yard, still in operation until the 1960s. In 1931 H.A. Oliver & Sons built here the very last wooden Thames sailing barge, Lady of the Lea. She was intended to convey gunpowder from Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills to Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, and had to use the narrow canal at the powder mills, without being a fire hazard. |
lexicalization | eng: Albion Wharf, Rotherhithe |
instance of | c/Companies based in London |
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