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1. Patsy Collins - Recollections of changes in the Port of London.
	Patsy recalls how the changes to the retirement age in the 1950s forced many old dockers to leave their jobs. Many men, in their 70s and 80s, were...

2. Ron Foley - Introduction.
	Ron worked in the docks from 1955 until 1986. For 25 years he was based at the West India and Millwall Dock complex before moving downstream to...

3. Patsy Collins - Introduction.
	Patsy was born in Stepney in 1924 and went to work in the Regent's Canal Dock in 1950. He joined a ship gang that looked after him and taught him...

4. Morris Foley - Abiding memory.
	Morris preferred to work on board ship rather than on the quayside. He worked at the Royal Docks and loaded and unloaded some of the biggest vessels...

5. Morris Foley - Abiding memory 2.
	Morris explains why he preferred to work on board ship loading cargo rather than unloading. It was a skilled job and one that had to be done...

6. Morris Foley - Abiding memory 3.
	Morris was working at the Royal Docks after the war when he witnessed a group of poverty-stricken children being shipped to New Zealand. The...

7. Signs from the past
	Video memories from Docklands deaf community

8. Steven Pink - Deaf people working in the docks
	To get employment, dock workers had to pass a medical. Deaf people were unable to work there.

9. Tony Pink - Introduction
	Tony and his brother Steven are both deaf. They were born in Rotherhithe and remember the working docks well.

10. Tugs and barges
	Colliers going up river and shot from Deptford power station


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