Port Of London (1940-1949)

[@howardwayne3974]

I thoroughly enjoy looking at these films ! You always hear people talk about this sort of thing and read about it , but until you actually see it you just can't tell how things happen !

[@oswig1768]

Amazing to think my great grandfather could have been mates with one or more of the lads in the video and potentially worked on the same dock.

[@neilturner6865]

The good old days when we had a merchant navy

[@charlesperez9976]

Oh that is incredible. It’s all condominiums now.

[@davidmcintyre998]

Sibley Park was renamed in 1950 scrapped in 1969,the Liberty ship Samkansa was scrapped in 1970.

[@georgerenton965]

Where the “ Parks and Forts “ Canadian built Vic/Lib ships ? This is a great film. My Granddad was a docker in Leith, dad was a Lorry driver, I’d go with him in the summer time, early 60’s. I think the decline had already started. Palletization and telex machines where making inroads into transportation. The end of “ break bulk cargo “ to containerization was the new reality. Being born in 53, close to the passing of the Clean Air Act, you can see by the air quality there was a need. I remember when the air was green at street level and you couldn’t hear a double decker bus crawl by across the street. Rode the steam powered local too and from school twice a day ( home for lunch ). Interesting time to be alive, but have to admit I witnessed a lot of the end of things it seems. Moved to Canada, sort of the same here. What is common place that you pay no mind to, you turn around and it’s gone. … or just transformed to a money making opportunity minus the work force. Now we have massive warehouses with acres of paved parking lots, a hundred dock plates, and there are only 3 workers to run it. Pave over the best agricultural land while they’re at it. Now we have major flooding events in our communities that never occurred historically. Now we have to pour stretched thin budgets to make significant upgrades to infrastructure. Guess if you’re handy with a shovel there might be a job coming up soon. … oh ! They have machines to do that too. Now we have four guys leaning on one shovel. Need better planning than this.

[@ricomon35]

Beautiful footage. Just wish there was an intact soundtrack :)

[@paulkazjack]

Very interesting.

[@차클-위대한_질문]

Hello JTBC's broadcasting program is different. This is the class team. During the production of the show, some of the video I'm going to use it after marking the source Will it be okay? I used a translator I ask for your understanding.

[@DavidFennessy-yj7du]

If you watch episodes of TV series like, The Sweeney‘and’The Professionals’ they use the abandoned dock lands a lot in the 70’s before it was transformed into a city of office blocks

[@golfboy3]

My grandad would have been 52 in 1940 and a seasoned dockworker. He worked until aged 68 as there was a non-existent docks pension in those days. Joined up to the Essex regiment in 1912 and ended up in the Imperial Camel corps. Had to move to Bristol docks in WW2 as he was bombed out of the London Docks.

[@robociock]

Nice sound

[@johnboughton7451]

No Sound ?

[@imapaine-diaz4451]

this has to be from the pre war times in docklands. It took years to get docklands back in order after the blitz and it never really recovered to its pre war activity.

[@brushtoothpaste160]

This is bloody mental

[@russellking9762]

didn't the Luftwaffe raid these docks both day and night?

[@someblokecalleddave1]

My Dad used to work in many of these docks and I don't remember him saying that the docks were adversely affected by the bombing, they would have been surrounded by Akak guns too. From what I know of that time the most devastating strikes in and around London were on residential areas and were designed to have a psychological impact rather than a economic impact, but I'm not 100%, so I may be wrong?

[@someblokecalleddave1]

Just watched another vid - yeah they did bomb the docks - massively! A 58 day campaign apparently.

[@someblokecalleddave1]

Shame there's no commentary.

[@robnewman6101]

Law & Order. Police. Constabulary.

[@robnewman6101]

Rule Britannia.

[@graemegould2465]

I was there in 1967, much the same. Just before containerisation, I was junior engineer on P and O's "Bendigo" very interesting for myself

[@robnewman6101]

Oh. Thank you.