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1. The Contest for Doggett’s coat & badge.
	View of the River Thames looking towards the north bank near Blackfriars Bridge, with St Paul’s Cathedral to the far right. Spectators on shore...

2. Queen Victoria’s Coronation.
	A panoramic view of the state procession of Queen Victoria’s coronation, 28 June 1838, showing the Queen’s Bargemaster and Watermen.

3. The rival watermen (caricature).
	A satirical cartoonist uses tales of watermen’s rivalry to make a political point. Watermen had a long history of wrangling with passengers...

4. The window into the port

5. Unloading coal, by WL Wyllie.
	A Wyllie drawing depicting the unloading of coal. As was so often the case, Wyllie captures the gritty reality of labour on the Thames.

6. Arrival at Brandenburgh House of the Watermen &c. with an address to the Queen on the 3rd December 1820.
	The Watermen on the River Thames were responsible for the movement of goods and passengers. The Company of Watermen and Lightermen had been...

7. A north view of Greenwich Hospital from the Isle of Dogs.
	A north view of Greenwich Hospital from the Isle of Dogs including two ships and various boats in the foreground, along with a landing platform on...

8. The miseries of London ... being assailed by a group of watermen.
	In this drawing Rowlandson illustrates the worst side of the early watermen’s reputation for getting trade by any means. A group of watermen...

9. The Thames Police at Wapping Wharf, by James Whistler.
	Thames police officers and their skiffs pulled up on the shore at Wapping Wharf. In 1839, ten years after the Metropolitan Police was formed, the...

10. Toil, glitter, grime and wealth on a flowing tide, by W.L. Wyllie.
	Wyllie's 1884 depiction of the working river shows something of the grim reality of the day-to-day life of lightermen and the other workers. As the...


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