- A
ropewalk is a long
straight narrow lane, or a
covered pathway,
where long
strands of
material are laid
before being twisted into rope. Due to the length...
-
Ropeyard continued to make use of the
wharf and its ****ociated
storehouses into the 19th century. In the 1570s the
Crown established a
naval Ropeyard...
- 1540s (for
storage and
maintenance of ships'
canons and armaments) and a
ropeyard followed in the 1570s. The
dockyard went
through many ups and
downs but...
- in raw
materials for the
ropeyard as well as
shipping out
finished rope. The north-west
section of the yard was
named Ropeyard Wharf. Hemp, tar and rope...
-
parish of Woolwich. A new road was laid out to its northwest,
where the
ropeyard had been from
around 1570 till 1832, and was
named Beresford Street. At...
- were
later built at said shipyard, and also
supplied by the ****ociated
ropeyard, were the
training ships RNS
Cristoforo Colombo and
Amerigo Vespucci. The...
- Chapman, A
treatise on
ropemaking as
practiced in
private and
public ropeyards ... (Philadelphia 1869) that an iron
anchor for a ship
comparable to a...
- Road). To the
north and east of the ****ure
Powis Street were the
Royal Ropeyard and some gardens; to the
south and west lay
virgin land. As the town was...
- gl****
factories in Woolwich,
where he also
managed the
dockyard and the
ropeyard,
close to his home in East-Greenwich. In 1618,
Mansel was
appointed Vice-Admiral...
-
inside of the
ramparts was the
Lijnbaansgracht situated,
named after the
ropeyards in this area. For two centuries,
Amsterdam kept its
characteristic crescent-shaped...
