Dockers at West Dock London Dock 1920 Size:large the disused site became home

the disused site became home to the Tate Modern art gallery

In the years leading up to and after the Second World War thousands of women left school at fourteen to work in the bustling factories of London's East End

It was reopened after the war but finally closed in 1971 due to the pollution of the Thames

Evening street scene outside Foyles book shop

By December one hundred and ten suffragettes were refusing food

Dockers at West Dock London Dock 1920 Size:large the disused site became homeDockers at West Dock, London Dock, in 1920, trucking away bags of beet sugar from a coasting vessel, probably a Thames barge. Neg 0733