Orchard House Yard was an English shipbuilding yard located at Leamouth, on the River Lea at Bow Creek. The SS Robin, a 300-tonne steam-powered coaster which is part of the National Historic Fleet, Core Collection and the last of its type still in existence, was built at Orchard House Yard in 1890, and is currently moored a short distance away at West India Quay in London Docklands.
Famous quotes containing the words orchard, house and/or yard:
“Some spring the white man came, built him a house, and made a clearing here, letting in the sun, dried up a farm, piled up the old gray stones in fences, cut down the pines around his dwelling, planted orchard seeds brought from the old country, and persuaded the civil apple-tree to blossom next to the wild pine and the juniper, shedding its perfume in the wilderness. Their old stocks still remain.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Then he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling things there; and he said, “It is written, My house shall be a house of prayer’; but you have made it a den of robbers.””
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 19:45,46.
“I do not believe in erecting statues to those who still live in our hearts, whose bones have not yet crumbled in the earth around us, but I would rather see the statue of Captain Brown in the Massachusetts State-House yard than that of any other man whom I know. I rejoice that I live in this age, that I am his contemporary.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)