In 1887 Colonel William F Cody arrived in England aboard the steamship State of Nebraska, with a cargo including 160 horses, buffalo, elk and antelope. Cody was better known as Buffalo Bill and he had brought his famous ‘Wild West Show’ to London.

One (unsubstantiated) line of thought is that Cody Dock gained its name from the camp Buffalo Bill set up whilst touring.

He recorded his impressions of arriving in London and travelling up the Thames in his diary:

As we moved slowly up the tideway, the huge fleets of sea-going vessels became more crowded; forests of masts and spars stretching away seemingly in illimitable perspective, while on our starboard side the extensive docks in an endless series spoke of the majesty of commerce and the overflowing glories of what Englishmen only call “The Port of London.”