The St Katharine Docks is a former dock located in the East End of London, in what is now the modern borough of Tower Hamlets. The commercial dock was located on the north bank of the River Thames near the Tower of London from 1828 to 1968 and was named after the former hospital of St Katharine's by the Tower on the site. When the dock was constructed in the late 1820s, the hospital and hundreds of houses were demolished, removing thousands of inhabitants, mostly poor port workers, from their homes.
In London Labour and the London Poor:
The St. Katherine’s Dock (Volume 3)
The Ballast-Heavers. (Volume 3)
Bone-Grubbers and Rag-Gatherers. (Volume 2)
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