Millwall Inner Dock, 1984
Just published on Blurb:
City to Blackwall 1978-84 London Docklands 1
ISBN 978-1-909363-09-0
South Quay bridge and Millwall Inner Dock, 1984/
The late 1970s and early 1980s was an interesting time in London, especially in the areas where the docks which had been at the heart of London’s existence were closed down, left derelict and then began to be developed. City to Blackwall is the first of a short series of books looking at these changes through the photographs of Peter Marshall, and was made over around ten years from 1974-84 in a series of walks from the heart of the City of London, close to London’s first dock, through Wapping, Limehouse and the Isle of Dogs to Poplar and Blackwall.
80 pages, 87 black and white photographs.
Gun Wharves, Wapping High St, 1981
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Limehouse, 1984
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Sea Trans Surveyor leaves West India Dock, May 1984
I was photographing on Hertsmere Rd, roughly where the Museum of London now is, when men working in the dockside sheds on West India Dock invited me to come and photograph this ship leaving from the walkway overlooking the dock. I had a mug of tea with them and took a few pictures inside the shed and then walked out as the ropes were untied and the Sea Trans Surveyor cast off, turned around in the dock and made for the entrance. They told me it would be the last ship leaving before the redevelopment as the dock would be closed for some years. I took several pictures (perhaps 4 or 5 – film wasn’t cheap) as it left and two are in the book.
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My London Diary : Buildings of London : River Lea/Lee Valley : London’s Industrial Heritage
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