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Wapping Wharf — 186630

2026 · 11 images

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Tiny red-leafed geranium seedling growing from a crack in weathered wood, soft blue background

Rusted iron bracket on a decayed railway wagon with chalk graffiti and stencilled number 7-2, Wapping Wharf

Yellow wildflowers growing between weathered wooden railway sleepers, rust-stained bolts in the foreground

Stencilled number 186630 on weathered peeling timber with a rusted metal plate above, Wapping Wharf

Deeply split and weathered timber grain with blue and red paint peeling away in jagged strips

Rusted rail clamp bolted to a decayed wooden sleeper with small pink flowers growing in the gravel

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Wapping Wharf — 186630

I kept going back to the plants. Ragwort between the sleepers, a geranium seedling in a split plank, small pink flowers in the ballast. The wagons were there for the peeling paint and rust — layers of it, stencilled numbers, old brackets. The vintage lens made the two feel like the same subject.