Winston Churchill East India Docks 1944

Winston Churchill East India Docks 1944The Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, with some of the thousands of British workers engaged upon the construction of sections of the prefabricated ports, East India Dock, 1944. Two prefabricated ports, each as big as Gibralter, were manufactured in Britain in sections, towed across the channel, and set down off the coast of Normandy. The use of the prefabricated Port greatly simplified the problem of supplying the Allied Armies in France. The dock

The cafés around Charing Cross catered for theatre and cinema visitors

The volume of traffic meant that the market again moved

Hyde Park in the North East

‘Blood Alley' was the nickname given to roadway between the transit sheds and sugar warehouses because handling the sacks of sticky West Indian sugar badly chafed and cracked the dockers’ skin

West Drive Battersea Park in the North East

and some suggestions for where to eat and drink along the way

Inspired by London

An illustration from Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Doré's book

Tom and Jerry 'masquerading it' among the lodgers of the back slums

Section 10 of the original Descriptive map of London Poverty

The souvenir stall in the centre of the picture would have sold an array of commemorative products

commissioned by Booth and the first of their kind