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Built between 1826 and 1835 The Royal William Victualling Yard supplied Royal Navy ships from Devonport dockyard with most of the supplies required for their voyages.
The grade 1 listed yard was decommissioned and sold in 1992 and has become an area of up market flats (apartments), boutiques, offices and restaurants housed in impressive Georgian buildings.
The imposing main gateway to the yard topped by a statue of King William IV after whom the yard is named
One of the pedestrian gates alongside the main vehicular gate
Part of the river frontage
The swing bridge and the entrance to a small inner basin
Some of the detail on the iron work of the swing bridge, in this case a naval anchor
And here the makers nameplate
Some of the original equipment has been left in place. This crane overlooking the inner basin bears a name once seen in ports and harbours around the world, that of the famous Bath based crane makers Stothert and Pitt
The same Stothert and Pitt crane with in the background the clock tower
One of the unusual bollards carrying the date 1830
Ironically posed outside the former slaughter house, these cows would have actually avoided such a fate, however up to 100 bullocks were slaughtered every day to provide the navy with the infamous barrels of salted beef, with up to 100 coopers employed making those barrels. As a small boy my parents landlord was a retired cooper from this yard. Perhaps a more welcome product stored in barrels was the navy rum or grog.
Barrie
The grade 1 listed yard was decommissioned and sold in 1992 and has become an area of up market flats (apartments), boutiques, offices and restaurants housed in impressive Georgian buildings.
The imposing main gateway to the yard topped by a statue of King William IV after whom the yard is named
One of the pedestrian gates alongside the main vehicular gate
Part of the river frontage
The swing bridge and the entrance to a small inner basin
Some of the detail on the iron work of the swing bridge, in this case a naval anchor
And here the makers nameplate
Some of the original equipment has been left in place. This crane overlooking the inner basin bears a name once seen in ports and harbours around the world, that of the famous Bath based crane makers Stothert and Pitt
The same Stothert and Pitt crane with in the background the clock tower
One of the unusual bollards carrying the date 1830
Ironically posed outside the former slaughter house, these cows would have actually avoided such a fate, however up to 100 bullocks were slaughtered every day to provide the navy with the infamous barrels of salted beef, with up to 100 coopers employed making those barrels. As a small boy my parents landlord was a retired cooper from this yard. Perhaps a more welcome product stored in barrels was the navy rum or grog.
Barrie