WAPPING HIGH STREET, LONDON AND THE TOWN OF RAMSGATE PUB Hoodie

Wapping High Street, showing Pier Head, and the famous Town of Ramsgate Public House, Men pressed ganged into serving on ships and convicts destined for transportation to the Colonies, were held in cellars at the pub. Execution Dock was situated nearby. Men were hanged then chained to posts in the river, the tide rising over them three times before their bodies were removed. It was on Wapping Old Stairs, next to the pub, in 1688, that Judge Jeffries (the Hanging Judge) was captured whilst trying to flee the country dressed as a sailor. painted in oils on a 24 by 12 inch canvas