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Throughout the 19th Century a series of enclosed dock systems
was built, surrounded by high walls to protect cargoes from
river piracy London home for rent.
These included Surrey Commercial Docks (1807, originating
from the Howland Great Wet Dock of 1696), West India Docks
(1802), East India Docks London home for rent (1803, originating
from the Brunswick Dock of 1790), London Docks (1805), St
Katharine Docks (1828), Royal Victoria Dock (1855), Millwall
Dock (1868), Royal Albert Dock (1880), and Tilbury docks (1886).
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London home for rent by the beginning of
the 20th century competition and strikes led to pressure for
amalgamation. A Royal Commission led to the setting
up of the Port of London Authority (PLA) in 1908. In 1909
the PLA took control of the enclosed docks from Tower Bridge
to Tilbury, with a few minor exceptions such as Poplar Dock
which remained as a railway company facility. The PLA head
Office at Trinity Square Gardens was built by John Mowlem
& Co and completed in 1919.
The PLA dredged a deep water channel, added the King George
V Dock (1920) to the Royal group, London home for rent and
made continuous improvements to the other enclosed dock systems
throughout the first two thirds of the 20th Century.
This culminated in expansion of Tilbury in the late 1960s
to become a major container port (the UK's largest in the
early 1970s), together with a huge riverside grain terminal
and mechanised facilities for timber London home for rent
handling. Under the PLA London's annual trade had grown to
60 million tons (38% of UK trade) by 1939, but was mainly
transferred to the Clyde and Liverpool during World War 2.
After the war London recovered, again reaching 60 million
tons in the 1960s.
a wall, fortified by the Wakefield Tower to the SW, the Lanthorn
Tower to the SE, London home for rent and the now ruined Wardrobe
Tower to the NE.[6]
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