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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. Thames wherries, Richmond, by EW Cooke.
	The marine painter Edward William Cooke took an interest in local Thames river craft. He made a number of preparatory sketches of these...

3. Robert Milligan (c.1746-1809).
	Robert Milligan (c.1746-1809) was the man responsible for the realisation of the West India Docks. Milligan was a wealthy West India merchant and...

4. 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...

5. The window into the port

6. William Giles East, Doggett winner and King’s Bargemaster
	Photograph of William Giles East wearing the Doggett’s Coat and Badge, which he had won in 1887. He was born at Lambeth in 1866, and was...

7. Very rough sketches, two Galleon's Reach and one of Woolwich ferry.
	These sketches were painted by the Scottish artist James McBey (1883-1959). The Woolwich Free Ferry began its service in 1889, initiated by the...

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Moss's Wharf, Old Greenwich, 1923.
	The waterfront buildings of R. Moss & Sons, Crane Wharf in East Greenwich, immediately east of the Yacht public house with the bow of a Dutch...


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