Port and quay · London
White Dock
A London river district on the Thames, close to Southbank. Its timber yards helped start the second Great Fire of 4556. It holds the White Dock Tin Stores and the home of the White Dock Enginewrights, while its quarantine stairs deal with suspect arrivals.
Where the volumes speak of it
- Book I › Chapter 8 — London and the Lower Thames: The Capital Lens › 8.5 Labour, rumour, and the memory of fire
- Book I › Chapter 11 — Daily Life, Law, Trade, Work, and Material Culture › 11.2 Work, professions, and dangerous labour
- Book II › Chapter 19 — Roads, Customs, Quarantine, Inspections, and the Movement of London › 19.2 Customs, Inspections, Dangerous Cargo, and Licensed Arcana