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Sep 12, 2026
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
"Hello, mate," I greeted him, sparring for a beginning.
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
"Can you tell me the way to Wapping?" "Worked your way over on a cattle boat," he countered, fixing my nationality on the instant.
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
And thereupon, we entered upon a talk that extended itself to a public house and a couple of pints of half-and-half.
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
This led to closer intimacy, so that when I brought to light all of a shilling's worth of coppers, ostensibly my all, and put aside sixpence for a bed and sixpence for more half-and-half, he generously proposed that we drink up the whole shilling.
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Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
And in a few months the father was in prison, the wife dying, the son a criminal, and the daughters on the street.
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
Multiply this by half a million, and you will be beneath the truth.
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
No more dreary spectacle can be found on this earth than the whole of the awful east, with its Whitechapel, Hoxton, Spitalfields, Bethnal Green, and Wapping to the East India Docks.
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
The colour of life is grey and drab.
David WalesNARRATOR
Pope, Homer's Iliad.
David WalesNARRATOR
Such scenes has Deptford, navy building town, Woolwich and Wapping, smelling strong of pitch.
David WalesNARRATOR
Such Lambeth, envy of each band and gown, And Twickenham such, which fairer scenes enrich.
David WalesNARRATOR
Pope, Imitation of Spencer.
David WalesNARRATOR
Pope, Homer's Iliad.
David WalesNARRATOR
Such scenes has Deptford, navy-building town, Woolwich and Wapping, smelling strong of pitch.
David WalesNARRATOR
Such Lambeth, envy of each band and gown, And Twickenham such, which fairer scenes enrich.
David WalesNARRATOR
Pope, Imitation of Spenser.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
In the summer of 1682, Shaftesbury, Monmouth, Russell, and a few others began to concert measures for a general rising against the king.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The scheme was of course discovered, and Shaftesbury, knowing that from the new composition of the juries he would have no chance of escape if another indictment were preferred against him, took to flight and concealed himself for some weeks in obscure houses in the city and in Wapping.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Meanwhile he tried from his hiding places to foment an insurrection, but when he found that the day which had been fixed on for the general rising had been postponed, he determined to seek safety for himself by escaping to Holland.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
After some adventures on the way he reached Amsterdam in the beginning of December.
speaker_2NARRATOR
El método habitual era la horca, muchas veces en lugares conocidos como muelles de ejecución.
speaker_2NARRATOR
En Londres, este lugar era Wapping, a orillas del río Támesis.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Varios piratas podían ser ahorcados juntos, especialmente durante períodos en los que la actividad pirata era particularmente intensa.
speaker_2NARRATOR
El propio ahorcamiento era cruel.
Brooke McGowanGUEST
Um, my, it's, it's what my sister always says, 'cause my sister's older than me and she remembers so much more.
Brooke McGowanGUEST
Um, but, uh, so I, I went to school in South Kensington, so which is like, kind of like in the, on the, the west side, but then lived in the east side, so like Wapping, uh, Tower Hamlets area.
Brooke McGowanGUEST
Um, and then went to school, like, uh, high school in, uh, it's called Clayhall.
Brooke McGowanGUEST
Like Essex, like just out- Just, like, you know there's that kind of, uh, area of Essex that people who are in London call it Essex and people who are in Essex call it London.
Simon EversNARRATOR
But isn't he English? asked Peggy.
Simon EversNARRATOR
Born and bred in Wapping, said Oliver.
Simon EversNARRATOR
He marched off across the lawn, and could they have heard it, the friendly talk that he had had with Chipmunk would have made the saint and the divines, and even the crusader Sir Guy de Chevigny, who were buried in the cathedral, turn in their tombs.
Simon EversNARRATOR
Doggy, watching the disappearing Chipmunk, Oliver's knuckles in his neck, said, I think it monstrous of Oliver to bring such a disreputable creature down here.
Paul WrightGUEST
Way back.
Paul WrightGUEST
And the thing was about it, it was that they'd obviously moved to Wapping by then.
Paul WrightGUEST
But then the editor had had a flat at the top of this building.
Paul WrightGUEST
It was weird.
Justin ChubbHOST
And this was an episode about the idea of introducing a ghost story into an area as an experiment to see if people would believe it, how quickly it would enter the mythology of that particular place, which was Ratcliffe Wharf.
Justin ChubbHOST
in Wapping.
Justin ChubbHOST
So it was a little kind of spooky area then quite sort of run down.
Justin ChubbHOST
In the documentary, they talk to real people who have very quickly taken on the story.
Alice PennHOST
Yes.
Alice PennHOST
So I think it's a little bit of a tricky route that you come through Wapping and there's some cobblestones.
Alice PennHOST
And there's a bit of the twists and turns in Canary Wharf.
Alice PennHOST
I won't say they're hills, but I think you know Canary Wharf well enough.
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