is an area of the
East End Of London , situated in the
London Borough Of Tower Hamlets . It is perhaps most well-known for having given its name to the
Blackwall Tunnel , which passes under the adjacent River
Thames to north
Greenwich .
There was a railway from
Minories to Blackwall via
Stepney (called the
London And Blackwall Railway ). It ran a distance of three and half miles.
Much of the current
DLR track around
Limehouse and Blackwall is on the old
Viaduct s. This was authorised in
1836 as "The Commercial Railway", running close to
Commercial Road in the East End.
It has been the home of such noted seamen as
Horatio Nelson and
Walter Raleigh . In
1606 it was the departure point of the invasion of north America launched by the
London Virginia Company .
Blackwall is also the location of a fictitious fire-station featured in the
London Weekend Television series ''
London's Burning ''.
