flyingV
12:52 Sun Oct 24
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My grandad also worked at Fred Olsen. Until recently he would meet mates for a drink at the pub next door to the museum then make it his business to educate the visitors afterwards!
The museum is well worth a visit, I’ll be over to have a look at this exhibition, thanks for the heads up.
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ted fenton
12:41 Sat Oct 23
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I was working at the Olsen area Millwall Dock for the PLA and in 1980 decided to take severance in hindsight I should have gone to Tilbury for a few years as the severance package by then was a lot more !
I'm still in touch with a lot of old mates from that time most of whom became black cab drivers.
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Eastside surge
10:10 Sat Oct 23
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Most of my dad's family worked in the Dock at some point, my dad was a crane driver and my grandad was what was called a ganger which was a kind of foreman.
Took my dad to the museum a few years back and he enjoyed it but claimed to have forgotten more than the curator knew about the docks but to be fair he is a bit of a know it all!
Broke his heart when he took his severance money and had to leave but he was at Tilbury by then and it wasn't the same job and nowhere near as enjoyable as when he originally went In.
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joe royal
9:47 Sat Oct 23
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Used to work opposite the museum but never went in.
Prob never will now.
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Gary Strodders shank
8:08 Sat Oct 23
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Mashed in maryland
The statue was of Robert Miligan
It had stood there since 1997 (longer than the museum itself) it was removed because of his links to the slave trade and after a local Labour MP started a petition to have it removed around the time of the BLM protests and the toppling of the Colston statue in Bristol.
As for the museum itself, i have visited on a couple of occasions and found the Port of London struff fascinating
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Hermit Road
9:24 Fri Oct 22
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The beautiful bronze statue that stood for years out the front was removed by the council last year because the man it depicted was foolish enough not to predict future sensibilities a couple of centuries ago.
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Hermit Road
9:22 Fri Oct 22
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I used to go there a lot. It was pretty good. Small but interesting, especially to those of us with an attachment to the area. Haven’t been for 2 or 3 years so presumably it is woked up to the max by now.
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Nurse Ratched
9:08 Fri Oct 22
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Has anyone been to that London Docklands museum? Is it any good, or is it all wokey and dumbed down?
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eswing hammer
8:58 Fri Oct 22
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Around Canary Wharf they used to have old pictures like these on the riverside, always remember one which showed temporary low paid workers on the dockside called toe rags , they couldn’t afford any footwear so they used to use old cloths tied up to boot height so the grain and aggregates couldn’t get down into their feet .
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Mike Oxsaw
8:22 Fri Oct 22
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When my father used to drive us kids to meet our uncles & aunts in Annerley/Crystal Palace (Yes...I know, that's where I get being a cunt from), he used to drive us through Cypress and by the Silvertown Tramway.
We'd go over an old swing bridge on route, which I assume was over the docks, but I was always impressed with the number of ships towering above the pre-fabs.
He'd never drive over Tower Bridge, ever, for some reason. London Bridge or Blackfriars Bridge were his preferred options.
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lincslink
7:53 Fri Oct 22
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I like the old photos on YouTube, my Grandad was a crane driver in Wapping Basin.
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Last Gasp
6:56 Fri Oct 22
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Great photos. Doing my ancestry thing during lockdown and all my family were workers on the river, from boat builders to chandlers. Lived in squalor in Shadwell.
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Vexed
12:46 Fri Oct 22
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Amazing what a thriving place it used to be.
Now it's just full of Twitter cunts.
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ted fenton
12:29 Fri Oct 22
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I worked in Millwall Dock 1965-1980 and never heard the phrase Knocker Upper but it's the sort of thing a Docker would say.
Great pics.
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Mex Martillo
12:09 Fri Oct 22
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Made me think of knock her up
But seeing the photo you really would not want to do that...
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Syd Puddefoot
9:37 Fri Oct 22
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A Knocker Upper, known as something a little different in my day.
Me also. An alarm clock.
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Mex Martillo
7:41 Fri Oct 22
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Some interesting photos there.
Never heard of a knocker up. Really funny that someone actually did that. You don’t really remember that though arsegrapes?
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