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Thames watermen provided a vital service in transporting passengers to their places of work and leisure, or simply carrying them across to the other riverbank | |
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The English customs system, taxing goods imported and exported through the ports, was created in the Middle Ages as a way of generating revenue for the Treasury |
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The foundation of the Greenwich Hospital and the Greenwich Royal Hospital School | |
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Preparing boys for a life at sea |
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Over the last 300 years, the Thames has played a significant part in the story of lifesaving at sea | |
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'The most illustrious and most flourishing commercial association that ever existed in any age or country'. |
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London played a central role in Britain's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade | |
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The origins of the Stock Exchange and Lloyd's Insurance |
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For many years, London played a leading role in this notorious trade | |
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Find out what it was like to work in the Port of London |
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Building for London and the world | |
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Showing the way |
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From windmills to giant mills in the docks | |
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Gas and electricity generation on the Thames |
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Follow the online slavery trail around Maritime Greenwich | |
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Goods from all over the world were sent to London |
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The last ship to be constructed at the Thames Ironworks, Blackwall. | |
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A government munitions factory |
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Tate and Lyle were important employers in Silvertown, and many women worked at their sugar refineries | |
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A selection of uniforms that would have been visible on the streets of maritime London |
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The East India Company's ships were the most magnificent vessels of their era | |
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On 12 April 2004, thousands came to watch Concorde's last appearance in London |
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The port became the centre of an enormous range of trades related to seafaring including instrument makers specialising in navigational equipment. | | |
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Port Fact
Where in London can a lighthouse be seen?
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