7. The Docks in the Twentieth Century
Tasks 7.3

1. What evidence is there in Photographs A to I in this chapter, of increasing mechanisation in the docks in
the twentieth century?

2. How might these photographs be misleading about the degree of mechanisation in the docks?

3. What effect do you think increasing mechanisation would have on the employment of dockers?

4a. Do these photographs prove that mechanised methods were replacing men in the docks?

b. What other evidence would you need to see if this was the case?

5. What do Sources G and H show us about the methods used to unload, store and distribute goods in the Royal Docks?

6. Compare these with the methods used in the nineteenth century shown on Uploading (chapter 3).
a. In what ways have the methods changed?

b. In what ways have they remained the same?