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21. Olaudah Equiano
	The slave who bought his freedom and fought the slave trade

22. Ben Tillett of the Dockers Union.
	Ben Tillett (1859-1943) was born in Bristol. After being invalided out of the navy he found work in the London Docks, eventually becoming a tea...

23. Charles Wildbore Esq Secretary to the Corporation of Trinity House for 32 years.
	The print depicts Charles Wildbore Esq Secretary to the Corporation of Trinity House for 32 years. Trinity House is the light-house authority for...

24. Coffee houses and the sea
	Coffee houses and the Sea

25. Alexander 'Nicky' Colley - Abiding memory.
	Nicky's father was also a docker. He was a member of the trade union organised by Ben Tillett, Tom Mann and John Burns in the aftermath of the Great...

26. A protest banner unfurled at Northumberland Wharf.
	On 8 July 1921, King George V journeyed by boat to Silvertown, where he opened the dock that bore his name. At Northumberland Wharf in Poplar,...

27. A detail from the Cable Street Mural.
	The mural on Cable Street, depicting the memorable events of 4 October 1936, when huge crowds turned out to stop a march by Oswald Mosley's British...

28. A glass negative of the Transit of Venus of 1874, taken from Rodriguez.
	A glass negative of the Transit of Venus of 1874. It containes one exposure of the planet Venus crossing the Sun’s limb. A paper label stuck...

29. A meeting outside the West India Dock gates.
	This was a monster gathering of striking dock workers in the last few days of the 1889 strike. Just over a week later, they returned to work having...

30. Dangers in the port


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