London Docklands History for GCSE

The Docks in the Twentieth Century
Research

Find out about the main industries that existed in your local area. Most libraries will have books or guides which give information on this.

You could then move on to examine original records to make a more detailed study. You could use:

• trade directories
  
• lists of manufacturers like the one above
  
• old maps and photographs


• census returns which will tell you about the occupations of people in the nineteenth century
  
• the records of individual companies.

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Introduction |
Glossary |
The Origins |
Building the Docks |
In Operations |
On the Waterfront |
The Dockers|
The Strikes of 1889 |
In the 20c |
In the WW2 |
The Closure |

 

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London Borough of Barking
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