New Charlton
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The area along the south bank of the Thames River at Charlton, London, post code SE7 was historically primarily an industrial zone, and is known as New Charlton and is part of the London Borough of Greenwich.
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[edit] History
Industrial development began there in the middle of the 19th century, especially after the opening of a private railway branch line to Angerstein Wharf in 1852. The flat land adjoining the Thames at New Charlton has been a significant industrial area since Victorian times. A notable establishment was the Siemens Brothers Telegraph Works opened in 1863, which manufactured two new transatlantic cables in the 1880s[1], and contributed to the PLUTO project in World War 2. By the 1930s the area was thriving, but since the 1960s the area had sunk into industrial decline, with most of the original factories closing.
[edit] New Charlton today
There has been regeneration projects recently starting in the late 1990's, mostly retail warehouses , supermarkets, and retail store shopping centres. The sole major remaining industrial facility is the Cemex construction aggregate and ready mix cement works at the Angerstein Wharf on the Thames River at the border between Greenwich Peninsula and Charlton. The southern portion of the Thames Flood Barrier is on the river bank at New Charlton.
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