Editing Wapping (section)

==In popular culture==
[[File:Wapping Woods (01).jpg|thumb|right|Wapping Woods, a park in Wapping]]
Wapping has been used as the setting for a number of works of fiction, including:
* ''[[The Long Good Friday]]'';
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]";<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.doctorwholocations.net/locations/wappingoldstairs|title=Wapping Old Stairs – The Locations Guide to Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures|work=The Locations Guide to Doctor Who, Torchwood, and the Sarah Jane Adventures|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090315094149/http://www.doctorwholocations.net/locations/wappingoldstairs|archive-date=15 March 2009}}</ref> 
* The ''Ruby in the Smoke'' novel in the [[Sally Lockhart]] series by Phillip Pullman;<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.damaris.org/content/content.php?type=1&id=197|title=Damaris.org|access-date=16 September 2008|archive-date=12 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212213331/http://www.damaris.org/content/content.php?type=1&id=197|url-status=dead}}</ref> 
* The [[BBC]] sitcom ''[[Till Death Us Do Part]]'', in which the central character, [[Alf Garnett]], shares his name with Garnet Street in Wapping;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jbutler.org.uk/London/TowerHamlets/Wapping.shtml|title=Wapping|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070912194058/http://www.jbutler.org.uk/London/TowerHamlets/Wapping.shtml|archive-date=12 September 2007}}</ref> 
* Season 4, episode 23 of ''[[Friends]]'', "[[The One with Ross's Wedding]]", which features [[St John's Church, Wapping]]
* The brothel in ''[[The Threepenny Opera]]'', in which [[Mack the Knife]] is betrayed by [[Jenny Diver]].
* ''The Darlings of Wapping Wharf Launderette'' is a compilation album by [[East End]] [[Musical group|group]] the [[Small Faces]].<ref>[https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00000IWQV Darlings of Wapping Wharf Launderette] Retrieved 16 September 2008</ref>
* The plot of [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s 1934 film ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film)|The Man Who Knew Too Much]]'' included the gangsters' hideout, which was set in Wapping.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Man Who Knew Too Much|url=http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/review/195|website=British Film Institute/Sight and sound|access-date=24 November 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201153902/http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/review/195|archive-date=1 December 2017}}</ref> 
* A house left standing after the London Blitz, the nearby River Thames and a notional priory house (which was used as a temporary prison) feature prominently in [[Jack Higgins]]' sequel to [[The Eagle Has Landed (novel)|''The Eagle Has Landed'']] titled ''[[The Eagle Has Flown]]''.
* The 1967 film ''[[To Sir, with Love]]'' was shot in Wapping, where the action in [[E. R. Braithwaite]]'s 1959 [[autobiographical novel]] [[To Sir, With Love (novel)|of the same name]] was set, based on his experience teaching at St George-in-the-East Central School (now the Mulberry House apartments),<ref>{{cite web |title=St George-in-the-East Church {{!}} Board Schools {{!}} Cable Street |website=stgitehistory.org.uk |url=http://www.stgitehistory.org.uk/media/schools.html |access-date=2024-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231209191925/http://www.stgitehistory.org.uk/media/schools.html |archive-date=2023-12-09 |url-status=live |quote=After the Second World War it became a secondary modern school, St George-in-the-East Central School… and has now been converted into 34 luxury apartments as 'Mulberry House'.}}</ref> adjacent to the north side of [[St George in the East]] church.<ref>{{cite web |title=To Sir, With Love {{!}} 1967 |website=movie-locations.com |url=https://movie-locations.com/movies/t/To-Sir-With-Love.php |access-date=2024-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231004204026/https://movie-locations.com/movies/t/To-Sir-With-Love.php |archive-date=2023-10-04 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* In the Monty Python skit "The Gumby Cherry Orchard," the narrator informs us that "Mr. L.N. Gumby is now appearing in the Thames near Wapping Steps."