Dockers Collection

Cid Officers as Dockers
C.I.D officers cunningly disguised as dockers during investigations into drug smugglers at Limehouse Docks, London. One man (r) has a hook for a hand!

Royal Engineers unloading ships at Surrey Docks, London, 194
Drawing showing Royal Engineers and men of the Pioneer Corps, under Government orders, busily unloading ships in Surrey Docks, London, August 1945

Cid Officers Sunday Best
C.I.D officers (who can be seen in disguise as dockers in the other picture in this set) sit proudly in their Sunday best, no longer sporting fake hands and eye-patches!

The Great Docks Strike of 1912 - Scene at Grays, Essex
The Great Docks (Docker s) Strike of 1912 - Scene at a Demonstration at Grays, Essex. The pre-war era witnessed massive industrial unrest as dockers, transport workers

Labour Union Poster - Great London Dock Strike
Labour Union Poster Commemorating the Great London Dock Strike of 1889. This industrial dispute involving dock workers in the Port of London broke out on 14 August 1889

Riots in Jamaica, 1938
Riots in Jamaica in 1938 over a pay dispute. Photograph shows a suspected blackleg, accused of intended strike-breaking in the docks, being man-handled by other workers. Date: 1938

London aerial view of West India Dock in the 1920s

London aerial view of Victoria Dock in the 1920s

Unloading a banana boat in New Orleans, early 1900s

Liverpool dockers, probably 1930s

Morning Star gala
Retired Dockers Union leader Jack Dash (on the right) and communist activist Peter Kerrigan (on the left) help out on the Morning Star stall at the gala at Charlton House organised by Greenwich

Ernest Bevin with Ramsay Macdonald at the time he supported the dockers claims for a minimum wage at the transport workers court of inquiry. Date: 1920

Unloading bananas from steamship 1891
Fruit steamships were solely used for tropical fruits, such as bananas, cocoa-nuts, oranges, pineapples and other fruits. 1891

Unloading a cargo of bananas from Jamaica to Bristol. 1902

Unloading fresh oranges 1900
Dockers unloading oranges at London Bridge, Wharf in the orange season. Packed in boxes or chests, containing 1, 000 oranges each. Oranges coming from Malta, Sicily, Spain and Portugal and Florida

Liverpool General transport Strike 1911
Most of the summer of 1911, dockers, railway workers and sailors, as well as people from other trades went on strike, paralysing Liverpools commerce. Transforming trade unionism and Merseyside

Dockers unload sugar at the West India Docks, London Date: 1889

The West India Docks, London - Opening of a new Dry Dock Date: 1878

West India Import Dock, Poplar, London Date: circa 1830s

East and West India Dock, London - Arrival of John Bowes
East and West India Dock, London - Arrival of the John Bowes screw steamer into the Collier Dock. Date: 1852

East India Import and Export Docks, London Date: circa 1850

Borneo, Indonesia - dock for canoes to Pontianak
Borneo, Indonesia - dock for canoes heading to Pontianak, the capital of the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan. Date: circa 1910s

Cruise ship in dock
Painting of a dockyard scene with dockers unloading baggage from a cruise liner.Date: 1930

Striking dockers attacking transport, London
Striking dockers attacking transport during the London Dock Strike. All vans loaded with goods were attacked and prevented from passing in any direction. 1911

Striking dockers attacking horse-drawn van, London
Striking dockers attacking a horse-drawn van during the London Dock Strike. All vans loaded with goods were attacked and prevented from passing in any direction. 1911

Street scene during the London Dock Strike

Strikers obstructing transport during London Dock Strike

Obstructive crowd of men during dock strike, London
An obstructive crowd of dockers at the Tower of London during the dock strike, preventing a loaded horse-drawn cart from passing in any direction. 1911

Dore / Dockers in Alley
Dockers handling barrels and other goods in a narrow alley between warehouses. Date: 1870

Volunteers working on the docks at Dover during the General
The Cambridge volunteers, the light blue brigade, attired in berets, pull-overs, flannel bags and voluminous plus-fours, worked efficiently as porters and dockers during the General Strike

Cook Islands - Rarotonga Island - Pacific Ocean. The US Steamship Company of New Zealand Wharf with railway tracks leading out onto the jetty for easy unloading and moving of cargoes

Belgium - Antwerp - Working Dock Horses
Belgium - Antwerp - working horses on the dock. Here this horse team transport a set of barrels along the cobbled quayside streets

Limehouse Reach
Dockers take a break by the river

Landing Oranges at Fresh Wharf, London Bridge, 1874
Engraving showing the belly of a cargo ship, being unloaded of oranges at Fresh Wharf, London. The oranges, in rectangular crates

The School Childrens Strike, 1889
Engraving showing a school childrens strike of 1889, which started in the East End of London in imitation of the Dockers strike that year

Dockers Strike
Dockers declare la greve a l outrance - an all-out strike to the finish

Dore / Warehouse by River
Dockers handling barrels and bales in a warehouse from which, if they raise their eyes, they can see a distant prospect of St Paul s

Dore / Dockers and Bale
Dockers manhandle a huge bale of goods into a warehouse

The Dock at Danzig
A view of the Docks at Danzig

Liner in Harbour
A liner in harbour, dockers handling goods

Dock / London (Dore)
A chaotic scene of ships, dockers and warehouses

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