\paperw3360 \margr0\margl0\ATXph16380 \plain \fs20 \f1 \fs22 During the 19th century, the London Docks bore physical witness to the international trade based on the British Empir
eÆs control of a quarter of the land surface of the globe. As one contemporary guidebook declared, ô\i nothing will convey to the stranger a better idea of the vast activity and stupendous wealth of London than a visit to the warehouses, filled to over
flowing with interminable stores of every kind of foreign and colonial products\i0 ε. ButlerÆs Warf was one of the many Victorian warehouses that once crowded the riverfront. The building has now been converted into apartments.\par
