Headquarters of News International, 1 Pennington Street, Wapping, London (2024)

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NOTES: Printing works and offices, which replaced Daniel Asher Alexander's North Stack warehouses that lined the north quay of the London Docks.

wapping (not comparable) (colloquial) Archaic form of whopping (“exceptionally great or large”).

In 1986 News International owner Rupert Murdoch caused controversy when he moved publication of The Times and The Sun away from Fleet Street to new premises in Wapping, East London.

The New York World Building (also the Pulitzer Building) was a building in the Civic Center of Manhattan in New York City, along Park Row between Frankfort Street and the Brooklyn Bridge. Part of Lower Manhattan's former "Newspaper Row", it was designed by George B.

Print unions tried to block distribution of The Sunday Times, along with other newspapers in Rupert Murdoch's News International group, after production was shifted to a new plant in Wapping in January 1986.

Wapping Printers Dispute

To protest their redundancy, the print union workers organised pickets on Virginia Street, aiming to block distribution of the newspapers, as well as mass demonstrations which usually converged on The Highway in southern Wapping.