Cargo being loaded or unloaded from a ship, Royal Victoria Dock, Canning Town, London 1st Duke of Newcastle 'Field Marshall the Earl Haig'

'Field Marshall the Earl Haig'

Plan of the City of London and surrounding area showing fortifications erected during the English Civil War

High Holborn

holds back one of the bailiffs and profers a bag of money to bail the rake out

Cargo being loaded or unloaded from a ship, Royal Victoria Dock, Canning Town, London 1st Duke of Newcastle 'Field Marshall the Earl Haig'Cargo being loaded or unloaded from a ship, Royal Victoria Dock, Canning Town, London, c1930. The dock was built between 1850 and 1855 on an area of Plaistow Marshes. It was the first London dock to be built specifically to handle large steamships and the first to be connected to the national rail network.