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Menzies Marshall shows the Tower of London from the southern bank of the Thames at Hay’s Wharf. Constructed in the 1850s, and rebuilt after damage in the ‘Great Fire in Tooley Street’ in 1861, the warehouses on Hay’s Wharf were used largely for lighters; small, flat bottomed barges which enabled goods to be transferred from a ship, right up to the wharfs and warehouses on the bank. By the time of Menzies Marshall’s painting, later in the 19th century, Hay’s Wharf had become a major centre for the tea trade, with tea clippers from China landing a high percentage of the tea consumed in London.
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