Blackwall, a suburb of London, in Middlesex, at the junction of the Lee with the Thames, miles ESE. of St Paul's. It has foundries, shipbuilding yards, East and West India Docks, and a tunnel under the Thames (opened in 1897).
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 205
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