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Southerntrekker: Hi There
As the owner has not responded to either my log or my colleague's previous log requesting that they check this cache I am archiving it.
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PLEASE DO NOT PULL ANY PIPES APART TRYING TO FIND THIS CACHE! IT IS NOT INSIDE ANY PIPES! By the 1970s, shipping had fully embraced containerisation, and the only ‘uptown’ warehouses still used by the Port of London Authority were those on Cutler Street. The site was acquired by Standard Life Assurance together with Greycoat Estates Ltd in 1978. At one time, Cutler Street was the premier tea warehouse for the Port of London Authority. But by the 1950s, most of of the tea business had been moved to the London Dock, and the space was given over to casks of wine, port and sherry. The most valuable goods were stashed in the Cutler Street warehouses, where the forbidding fortress-like walls and the fire-proof construction afforded excellent protection. Ostrich feathers, chinaware, oriental carpets, cigars, tortoiseshell, silks, mother of pearl, clocks, watches, cameras, drugs, spices, musical instruments, perfumes, tea and other prized artefacts were stored here. When the East India Company’s trade monopoly to China ended in the 1830s, the complex of warehouses was sold to the St Katharine Dock Company. In 1909, they were bought by the Port of London Authority, then the greatest warehouse keeper in the world. In 1768, the East India Company bought land on New Street for warehousing. Its first building stored raw silk, piece goods and textiles from Bengal — hence the name Bengal Warehouse. Further parcels of land were acquired and more warehouses constructed right up until 1820. By then, the famous old trading company owned most of the area and property that the Devonshire Square Estate occupies today.
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