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The London docks in 1882. The King George V Dock had not yet
been built London flat to rent.
Three principal kinds of docks existed. Wet docks were where
ships were laid up at anchor and loaded or unloaded. Dry docks,
which were far smaller, took individual ships for repairing.
Ships were built at dockyards London flat to rent along the
riverside. In addition, the river was lined with innumerable
warehouses, piers, jetties and dolphins (mooring points).
The various docks tended to specialise in different forms
of produce. The Surrey Docks concentrated on timber, for instance;
London flat to rent Millwall took grain; St Katharine
took wool, sugar and rubber; and so on.
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London flat to rent most were unskilled
and worked as casual labourers. They assembled at
certain points, such as pubs, each morning, where they were
selected more or less at random by foremen. For these workers,
it was effectively a lottery as to whether they would get
work - and pay, and food - on any particular day. This arrangement
London flat to rent continued until as late as 1965, although
it was somewhat regularised after the creation of the National
Dock Labour Scheme in 1947.
The main dockland areas were originally low-lying marshes,
mostly unsuitable for agriculture and lightly populated. With
the establishment of the docks, the dock workers formed a
number of tight-knit local communities with their London flat
to rent own distinctive cultures and slang. Poor communications
meant that they were quite remote from other parts of London
and so tended to develop in some isolation. The Isle of Dogs,
for instance, had only two roads in and out. Local sentiment
was so strong that in 1920 residents blocked the roads and
declared independence.
[edit] 20th century
Museum in Docklands, near Canary Wharf London flat to rent
The docks were originally built and managed by a number of
competing private companies. From 1909, they were managed
by the Port of London Authority, or PLA, which amalgamated
the companies in London flat to rent a bid to make the docks
more efficient and improve labour relations. The PLA constructed
the last of the docks, the King George V, in 1921, as well
as greatly expanding the Tilbury docks.
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