Picture No | 10216243 |
Date | 1886 |
Description | Dock labourers at West India Dock |
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Unemployed men being engaged as dock labourers at West India Dock, London. Many aspects of dock work were relatively unskilled and men from all walks of life could turn up at the docks without references.
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Source | Illustration by A. Forestier in The Illustrated London News, 20 February 1886, page 189 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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