London 1982

Peter MARSHALL


Cyclops Wharf, Westferry Rd, Isle of Dogs, Tower Hamlets. 1982
30l-14: house, graffiti, park, flats

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The Durable Group of companies was based at Cyclops Wharf, offering transport, travel, freight services, insulation, warehousing and asphalt. The Durable Warehousing Co Ltd sold Cyclops Wharf in 1986 in a deal that appears to have been in some way connected with money from the November 1983 Brink's-MAT robbery at Heathrow. Cyclops Wharf is now (according to an estate agents) "a beautiful riverside complex located on the western side of the Isle of Dogs, tucked off of Westferry Road. Built in 1986 it offers 180 luxury apartments and 24 mews style houses." It has a private entrance just south of Claude St.
 
Cyclops Wharf was first developed in the 1860s to make steam engines and other machinery by Edward Powys who build the Cyclops Foundry there. With an adjoining site to the south it was acquired by Edward Le Bas & Company. The Le Bas Tube Co based there, according to Grace's Guide were listed in Dun & Bradstreet Key British Enterprises in 1961 as " Manufacturers and distributors of malleable iron tube fittings and castings, pipe screwing machines, P.V.C. fittings and valves, fabricated pipework, bicycle parking equipment. The distribution of gas list and precision and other steel tubes. 270 employees."