Port of London Through Time Paperback 50.82/1114c Encourages children’s imagination

Encourages children’s imagination

This view shows the entrance to the Brewery in Park Street with the office block at the rear of the yard

Indian suffragettes

others were out-of-step with the spirit of their age: too radical

Traditional London stables had a central courtyard

Port of London Through Time Paperback 50.82/1114c Encourages children’s imaginationUntil the middle of the twentieth century, the Port of London was the busiest in the world. A long, slow decline set in, as ships grew larger and numerous seamen's strikes and the advent of containerisation decimated the docks. Everything moved downriver and the Port of Tilbury grew to cope with the demand, while the docks in London itself declined and were closed. Some have been filled in, others converted to other uses, with London City Airport and