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11. Thames watermen.
	The watermen on the River Thames were responsible for the movement of goods and passengers. The Company of Watermen and Lightermen had been...

12. Steven Pink - Tobacco Docks
	Steven's great, great Grandfather came from Ireland to work in the docks.

13. Steven Pink - Introduction
	Steven, a member of the deaf community, introduces himself and his family.

14. Steven Pink - The saw mill
	Steven was the only deaf employee in a Rotherhithe saw mill.

15. Liquid history (the Thames during the 1930s)
	A journey down the river from Tower Bridge to Tilbury.

16. Harry Paris introduction.
	Harry was born in 1925 and in 1941, aged 16, he became a wharfinger at Metropolitan Wharf, Wapping. After the war he worked as a casual docker at...

17. Bert Redwood - Introduction.
	Bert was born in 1925 in Canning Town. After serving in the navy during the Second World War he worked in the ship repair industry before becoming a...

18. Dick Desmond - Introduction.
	Dick was born in Poplar in 1938. Throughout his working life he had several jobs on the river. In 1953 he started work with Alexander Ship Towage,...

19. Barging through London
	In 1820 the Regent's Canal Dock was opened in order to connect the Regent's Canal with the Thames at Limehouse. It is now known as Limehouse Basin...

20. Alex Edgar - Recollections of changes in the Port of London.
	Alex worked at the Royal Docks and recalls how fast the dock gangs could unload a ship full of frozen carcasses. He also remembers the changing...


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