Original Painting : Sold
The riverside stretch through Rotherhithe, Wapping, Bermondsey and Limehouse has changed beyond recognition over the past 30 years. Warehouses and factories have been swept away or reborn as slick apartments and polished offices. They may have looked rough around the edges back then—grimy, worn, a bit unloved—but they had something real about them. These were proper working buildings, full of purpose and history.
I caught Metropolitan Wharf just as redevelopment was getting underway—skip out front, interiors being stripped back to the bones. It’s an immense building, six storeys of brick dominating the cobbled street. Back then, it wore its age proudly: broken windows, crooked wharf doors, and that once-red paint faded down to a dusty pink.
Original Painting : Sold
The riverside stretch through Rotherhithe, Wapping, Bermondsey and Limehouse has changed beyond recognition over the past 30 years. Warehouses and factories have been swept away or reborn as slick apartments and polished offices. They may have looked rough around the edges back then—grimy, worn, a bit unloved—but they had something real about them. These were proper working buildings, full of purpose and history.
I caught Metropolitan Wharf just as redevelopment was getting underway—skip out front, interiors being stripped back to the bones. It’s an immense building, six storeys of brick dominating the cobbled street. Back then, it wore its age proudly: broken windows, crooked wharf doors, and that once-red paint faded down to a dusty pink.
