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No.1 Warehouse, London Dock (Daniel Asher Alexander, 1805). The 5 listed warehouses stacks survived the initial clearance of the dock in 1969, but had succumbed to progressive vandalism, much of it undoubtedly officially sanctioned, by 1979. The warehouses were built in fireproof quadrants, separated by thick walls and heavy iron doors. No.1 Warehouse lost its south-western quadrant to fire in 1976/77. The photograph was taken in 1978. (Toby Webster, 2022). '