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The PortCities London team published a photograph of a dock gang, from 1957, in the local press to see if we could trace any of the men featured. We had a very positive response and invited several ex-dockers to a reunion on the Thames. While the dockers reminisced, we captured their memories as video clips... 

Then	Now
Dock gang at the King George V Dock, 1957. © NMM	The re-united dock workers, 2003. © NMM
Nicki Colley, second from the left of the foreground	Nicki Colley, fourth from the left in the front row

George and Bert now intend to meet up regularly. © NMM   Bert Redwood (right) and George Thurgar were re-united at the event after 20 years. George recalled: "I used to smoke a pipe and Bert was known on the docks as a man who could get cheap tobacco from his mates at Dunhill. When we met again, my first question was 'Got any snout?'"

This event was held in partnership with Age Exchange.

• The 20th-century port
• Many hands: Trades of the Port of London, 1850-1980
• London's Docks
• London's docks: past and present

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