Blackwall Yard

Sectors:

  • Transport equipment production Shipbuilding & repairing exc small craft

Notes:

Shipbuilding site whose origins date to before the 17th century. Yard operated by East India Co from 1610s for building and repairing their ships. 1650s acquired by Johnson family, notably (Sir) Henry Johnson, d1719, and sold by his heirs in 1724. By then reckoned to be largest yard on Thames. From 1724 managed by Perry family, trading variously as Perry & Co and Perry Sons & Green, and purchased by them in 1779. 1798-1803 yard sold to John and William Wells, established shipbuilders, who soon sold on to Sir Robert Wigram, 1743-1830, sometime trading, inter alia, as Wigram & Green. 1843 split into two units, one operated by Money Wigram & Sons until its closure in c1876. The other operated by R & H Green, later R & H Green & Silley Weir Ltd, which focused on ship repair from 1907. Remained in being through to 1977 when nationalised as part of British Shipbuilders when merged with London Graving Dock Co Ltd to form River Thames Shiprepairers Ltd

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