Royal Albert Dock

Royal Albert Dock was opened in 1880 as an extension of the Royal Victoria Dock, deeper this time, and with a wider entrance to allow the largest steamships to enter the port. In fact it was, at the time, the largest dock in the world at three quarters of a mile long, and it was the first London dock to be lit by electricity.

As with the other London docks, use declined during the mid-20th Century and it was eventually closed in the late 1960s.

Today it is part of a huge regeneration program to encourage more local people to the area for leisure purposes.

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