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For more than 400 years, pirates and smugglers who had received a sentence of death were brought to Execution Dock in Wapping to meet their ends, the dock’s position just below the low-tide mark of the Thames symbolically returning them to the scene of their crimes. Notorious figures hung here include Captain Kidd, their fates made especially cruel by the use of a short rope that reduced the length of their fall and ensured painful strangulation. The actual location of the historical dock is no longer known, though some sources suggest it was at the site of the Overground station. A replica gallows stands on the shore today, and I was struck by the juxtaposition of this sinister piece of history with the posh flats and Canary Wharf behind.
For more than 400 years, pirates and smugglers who had received a sentence of death were brought to Execution Dock in Wapping to meet their ends, the dock’s position just below the low-tide mark of the Thames symbolically returning them to the scene of their crimes. Notorious figures hung here include Captain Kidd, their fates made especially cruel by the use of a short rope that reduced the length of their fall and ensured painful strangulation. The actual location of the historical dock is no longer known, though some sources suggest it was at the site of the Overground station. A replica gallows stands on the shore today, and I was struck by the juxtaposition of this sinister piece of history with the posh flats and Canary Wharf behind.
For more than 400 years, pirates and smugglers who had received a sentence of death were brought to Execution Dock in Wapping to meet their ends, the dock’s position just below the low-tide mark of the Thames symbolically returning them to the scene of their crimes. Notorious figures hung here include Captain Kidd, their fates made especially cruel by the use of a short rope that reduced the length of their fall and ensured painful strangulation. The actual location of the historical dock is no longer known, though some sources suggest it was at the site of the Overground station. A replica gallows stands on the shore today, and I was struck by the juxtaposition of this sinister piece of history with the posh flats and Canary Wharf behind.
For more than 400 years, pirates and smugglers who had received a sentence of death were brought to Execution Dock in Wapping to meet their ends, the dock’s position just below the low-tide mark of the Thames symbolically returning them to the scene of their crimes. Notorious figures hung here include Captain Kidd, their fates made especially cruel by the use of a short rope that reduced the length of their fall and ensured painful strangulation. The actual location of the historical dock is no longer known, though some sources suggest it was at the site of the Overground station. A replica gallows stands on the shore today, and I was struck by the juxtaposition of this sinister piece of history with the posh flats and Canary Wharf behind.
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