Talk:Silvertown

Housing Estate?[edit]

Isn't "Silvertown" the name of a large housing estate on the north side of the Thames?--TGC55 14:52, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The estate is named after the district where it is located. This article is about that district. Tarquin Binary 20:21, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldn't the Silvertown Housing Estate be included in this article. It's a very large estate and I hear reference to it many times.--TGC55 17:23, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bass[edit]

What is the basis for the claim "In the mid 1990s much of the business activity in the area was centred around the brewing firm Bass"? What business activity did Bass have in Silvertown? Zythophile (talk) 15:11, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure if it means Bass or (originally?) Charrington. I think they may have had a brewery there, what later became what became Carlsberg, to the north of Bell Lane and W of North Woolwich Road. Pterre (talk) 17:17, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at Google streetview, Carlsberg still have a depot there 51°30′17″N 0°01′00″E / 51.504762°N 0.016662°E. Can't say if it was ever a brewery or just a large distribution depot. Probably the latter. Pterre (talk) 09:10, 11 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Carlsberg is not and has never been anything to do with Bass or Charrington. Silvertown has never had a brewery. The Charrington brewery was away in Mile End. Zythophile (talk) 20:52, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

See this website: http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=21175 Already referred to above, this was a distribution centre for Carlsberg-Tetley, but I think that company (or one of its previously independent subsidiaries) could perhaps have acquired it from Bass-Charrington. This is supported by a photo on the linked website, which shows an empty bottle of Bass beer. Also, this photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/45524017@N05/4748356613/ shows a location called Charrington Steps, which according to the photographer is so-called because of the former Charrington's distribution centre. I am not 100% sure if that is true. After all, the name Charrington Steps could be unconnected to the brewery of that name. Also, another photo on the first website I linked to shows correspondence on Ind Coope headed stationery and dated 1991. Ind Coope was part of Allied Breweries (became part of Carlsberg-Tetley) and the date of 1991 on the correspondence would surely indicate that the distribution centre already had no connection with Bass-Charrington at that time. If so, the claim about Bass being a major employer in the 1990s would seem to be untrue? Dubmill (talk) 22:34, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Noxious factories[edit]

I read somewhere that the rubber factory located here partly because it was just outside the boundary of the zone around London in which noxious processes were not allowed, under regulations fairly new at the time. Ditto the other new factories. If I can find the reference I will add it. Davidnugget (talk) 09:56, 31 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

S. W. Silver and Company[edit]

Just to say that I have looked into the founding of this company in some detail. Whilst a number of source give the name of the founder as Samuel Winkworth Silver this is in fact incorrect. Partly this is down to an error by John A. Tully in his book Silvertown: The lost story of a strike that shook London and helped launch the modern labor movement and the error has spread across the internet. See The Silvers of S. W. Silver & Co. for a comprehensive account of S. W. Silver and Co which is backed up by other sources. Leutha (talk) 18:23, 11 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]