Winston Churchill East India Docks 1944 Type:art print Margate and Brighton

Margate and Brighton

The Dugdale sisters

000 people

compiled and hand coloured by Charles Booth and assistants The section covers the area between Musgrove Crescent in the North West

London dockers using a hand-truck and hooks

Winston Churchill East India Docks 1944 Type:art print Margate and BrightonThe Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, with some of the thousands of British workers engaged upon the construction of sections of the prefabricated ports, East India Dock, 1944. Two prefabricated ports, each as big as Gibralter, were manufactured in Britain in sections, towed across the channel, and set down off the coast of Normandy. The use of the prefabricated Port greatly simplified the problem of supplying the Allied Armies in France. The dock