Picture No | 12699182 |
Date | 1841 |
Description | Shipyard of Green, Wigram and Green, East London |
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Shipyard of Green, Wigram and Green, between West India Dock and East India Dock, near the Isle of Dogs, East London. Showing two boys spinning oakum (recycled pieces of rope used for plugging crevices in the outside of a ship, to help keep it watertight).
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Source | Engraving in 'The Penny Magazine', May 1841, page 211 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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