At Enderby Wharf the technology to allow international communication was developed from the 1850s – and the new cables were loaded onto ships until there until the late 1970s. Ever since then machinery has stood on the jetty – of great historic interest but with no status. It is not even ‘locally listed’!! We published a note about it here in March 2024.
Last year local technology journalist Alan Burkitt Gray formally
proposed to Historic England that it should list the jetty, telecoms cable
gantry and winding gear as of architectural significance. Historic England has said “it would be more
appropriate to consider the site for scheduling rather than listing”. Alan says
‘This is amazing – the same level of protection that applies to our best
historic monuments, such as Stonehenge and our Norman castles’. See
http://services.historicengland.org.uk/.../GetFiles.aspx...
so see article by The Greenwich Wire blogger https://greenwichwire.co.uk/2025/03/05/greenwich-cable-winding-gear-end Marerby-wharf-scheduled-monument/. There is a vast amount of detail on the Atlantic Cable web site. https://atlantic-cable.com/CableCos/EnderbysWharf/index.htm. Updates on the Greenwich Industrial History Facebook Page
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