Stories from London’s dock workers recall their working lives on the huge bustling ports that made up ‘the pool of London’. How the docks provided a living not only to the dock workers but for whole communities before their decline and closure.
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Recalling a time when the East End ports were the ‘larder of London’, the Thames Lightermen (and women), talk about their incredible skills navigating this busy river with barges laden with goods from all over the world. Includes evocative archive 8mm film footage of the working river.
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From your doorstep waste takes many routes. Some to recycling centres but this story shows the journey general waste takes down river to the Energy from Waste facility in Belevedere and the fascianting process it goes through before powering your home.
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We explore the lives of people living on boats on the River Thames which increased rapidly after the war. An assortment of people found themselves living on all sorts of boats, attracted by cheaper prices and a pioneering spirit, often in the face of floods and sinking!
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Sift through the mud and silt on the River Thames at low tide and you could find a piece of Roman pottery, a Victorian leather shoe, the thigh bone of a Georgian cow. Three mudlarks share fascinating stories of their finds and the history they reveal.
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Sitting on the River Thames in West London is Eel Pie Island, home to incredible music history from the Rolling Stones to The Who, an assortment of eccentrics, boatyards and a rowing club. Hear stories from music fans and an eclectic mix of residents.
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The busy River Thames needed skilled workers to build and maintain the boats and ships that plowed up and down this wonderful waterway. We interviewed boatyard workers about their skills, the boats they worked on and the challenges facing boatyards today.
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