Brentford Dock

Brunel's original covered dock was destroyed by fire in 1920 and replaced by an iron and steel structure.

[4] The dock provided a trans-shipment point for goods between the railway network and barges operating on the Thames to the Port of London.

Traffic included coal, steel, timber, wood pulp, flour, animal feedstuffs, cork, general merchandise and, in the 1950s, Morris cars from Oxford.

It was redeveloped as housing and a marina in 1972 by the Greater London Council (GLC), to a design drawn up by architect Sir Roger Walters in 1968.

Sir Horace Cutler, then head of the GLC, sailed up river from County Hall on the boat Princess Freda.