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| London's docks and shipping |
 | | The rise and decline of Henry VIII's Dockyards |
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Shipping in the port of London at the time of the 1901 census | |  |
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 | | Ferries in Greenwich and Woolwich |
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The forgotten part of the port | |  |
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 | | The ship of the future? |
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Britain's first iron-hulled warship | |  |
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 | | Click on the labels to find out more about London's Docks |
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| See how the docks were originally constructed | |  |
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Ogle's proposal demonstrates the range of countries trading with 18th-century London. This plan was not used - the enclosed docks were built instead. |
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 | | A giant steam ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
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| The last surviving British tea clipper docked at Greenwich | |  |
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 | | The first modern warship with an ironclad iron hull |
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| The East India Company was the driving force behind the formation of the East India Dock Company in 1803 | |  |
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 | | King George V Dock was built to enhance and extend the trade that was passing though the Royal Victoria and Albert Docks |
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| When the Royal Albert Dock opened to shipping in 1880, it was considered to be the finest dock system in the world | |  |
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 | | London's first steamship dock |
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| St Katharine Docks was one of the smallest and most centrally located dock systems in London | |  |
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 | | London's tobacco docks |
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| Located on the Isle of Dogs, Millwall Docks were best known for the grain trade | |  |
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 | | The Port of London's link to the Midlands |
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| The only docks in South London | |  |
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 | | London's container port |
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| London's first enclosed docks | |  |
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 | | A trading wharf in the pool of London from: 1794 - 1972 |
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| London's larder | |  |
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 | | Ships built for speed |
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 | | The great and the good |
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| Contrasting photographs of the docks during the heyday of the working port with images of today's redeveloped Docklands | |  |
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 | | A dock-building programme is undertaken to further improve the port of London. |
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Visit a series of galleries |
 | | The GSNC was founded in 1824, and became London's foremost short-sea shipping line for 150 years |
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| Gustaf Adolf Mauritz Erikson (1872-1947) was an unusual shipowner in many ways | |  |
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 | | A.R. Grierson photographed hundreds of ships during the heyday of the inner London docks in the early 1960s |
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| Galleries of what has survived from the port of London | |  |
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 | | Images of Deptford Dockyard |
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| Images of Woolwich Dockyard | |  |
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| |  Port Fact What does 'wharf' stand for? Answer | |
