Floating Grain Elevator Royal Victoria Dock c.1938 2014.2/625 Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist

Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this ground-breaking non-fiction graphic novel

and material culture

The district covered is Paddington

funded mainly by Benjamin Levy

Corn Exchange Mark Lane

Floating Grain Elevator Royal Victoria Dock c.1938 2014.2/625 Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonistFloating Grain Elevator shooting grain into a lighter, Royal Victoria Dock, c. 1938. Loose grain was sucked up out of a ship's hold and then shot out into a barge. Corn porters working in the ship were sometimes called toe rags, due to the cloths protecting their legs.