Ports, Docks and Harbours Gallery

London Docks 1958 EAW071687

LONDON DOCKS, Southwark. Aerial photograph of Greenland Dock, Rotherhithe in June 1958. Also showing South Dock, the River Thames and the entrance to the Millwall Outer Dock (on the Isle of Dogs). Freighters are unloading into barges and butties. The dock was mostly used for Baltic shipping, notably whaling and timber. Greenland Dock is the oldest of London's riverside docks, originally laid out in 1695 to refit East Indiamen. The commercial docks closed in 1970, and the warehouses have now been replaced by Docklands residential developments (Swedish Quay, Baltic Quay and Brunswick Quay). Aerofilms Collection (see Links)

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Port Mulgrave 34092_006

Port Mulgrave, North Yorkshire, 2018. The remains of Port Mulgrave, a harbour built for the export of local ironstone, partially demolished during World War II as an anti-invasion precaution and damaged by storms in 1953

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Aerial, Dock, Harbour, Ruin

Thames Haven EAW168667

The tanker Esso Portsmouth at Shell Haven Oil Refinery, Thames Haven, Thurrock, Essex. Photographed by Aerofilms Ltd in 1967

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Aerial, Dock, Harbour, Maritime, Port