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  • The only developments in Wapping this year, apart from paywalls and a blanket of silence, have been pushing the Times to £1 (with concomitant circulation slithering) and the Sunday Times to £2.20.

    Running to Cable over Murdoch's BSkyB plans won't solve anything Peter Preston 2010

  • Tuesday night I met sum_1 and his girlfriend and a bunch of his friends in Wapping, to go and see a National Theatre production of Faust, an installation piece of promenade theatre, which was 'staged' in a disused warehouse in on Wapping Road.

    The One With The New Places kisobel 2007

  • The incident happened outside St George-in-the-East Church in Wapping, East London.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • I met Neil King and Peter Golds on Monday evening at a small, tasteful wine bar in Wapping.

    Tower Hamlets: Neil King, Peter Golds and the Conservative mayoral case Dave Hill 2010

  • At the west end of it, there is a small intermission of the buildings, but not much; and towards the river it is very populous (it may be called the Wapping of Colchester).

    A Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 2003

  • At the west end of it, there is a small intermission of the buildings, but not much; and towards the river it is very populous (it may be called the Wapping of Colchester).

    A Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 2003

  • English things, as in the love of bathos shown even in the sound of proper names; so that even the yearning lover in a lyric yearns for somebody named Sally rather than Salome, and for a place called Wapping rather than a place called Westermain.

    What I Saw in America 1905

  • Wapping was called Wapping in the Wose (Wash or Ouze), meaning in the Marsh: Bermondsey was Bermond's

    The History of London Walter Besant 1868

  • ~Wapping~: called Wapping Wash (or Marsh) in the time of Queen

    The History of London Walter Besant 1868

  • At the west end of it, there is a small intermission of the buildings, but not much; and towards the river it is very populous (it may be called the Wapping of Colchester).

    Tour through Eastern Counties of England, 1722 Daniel Defoe 1696

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