I have been totally jinxed on a post at the weekend from Wapping. For some reason, it seems impossible to file.
Suffice it to say that I discovered, which I should have known, that it’s possible get down to the river by way of two small alleyways off Wapping High Street. The first is alongside New Crane Wharf:-
The second is next to the Town of Ramsgate pub, where, again, one can get down to the river and look across to Rotherhithe and upriver to the Shard:-
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
Reminiscent of Ripper Street. (That is a TV programme).
Yes, but not at all sinister. Charles
Wapping Old Stairs, next to the Town Of Ramsgate pub, near where the notorious Judge Jeffries was arrested, in 1688, disguised as a sailor.
Yes, that’s right. Charles