{"id":5348,"date":"2013-07-03T15:34:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T14:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/?p=5348"},"modified":"2019-09-17T23:06:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T22:06:35","slug":"shadwell-basin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/shadwell-basin\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadwell Basin and Tobacco Road London"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tobacco Road London is often referred to as the historical starting point for the Trotters. It’s where Uncle Albert refers to on more than one occasion.<\/div>\n
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The Trotter family lived in Tobacco Road right from the 1900s. By the 1930s though Albert left to join the Navy. In 1936, Grandad Trotter,\u00a0 or Edward\u00a0 moved to Peckham, London.<\/div>\n
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Albert refers to it quite often in later episodes. We are told it was at the Tobacco Road London docks he met Freddie “The Frog” Robdal.<\/div>\n
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Shadwell Basin, Wapping, London was used as a location that involved Uncle Albert and the Trotter Trembler<\/div>\n
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This is where Del and Rodney finally find Uncle Albert after searching London<\/div>\n
Nearest Station is Shadwell<\/div>\n
Shadwell Basin was part of the London Docks, a group of docks built by the London Dock Company at Wapping<\/div>\n
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Lovetts Location – Tobacco Road London<\/h2>\n

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