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Title: Port of London 1909-1934
Author: Alan Bell
Publisher : The Port of London Authority
Publication c1934 First Edition
Format: Hardback
Condition: Cream covers which has some shelf wear with scuffing and bumping and a crease to front cover. Pages are rough cut and are clean with photographic and hand draw illustrations to the rear of the book. Previous owners name to front.
Book measures: 26cm x 20cm with 74 pages
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Port of London 1909-1934 by Alan Bell
In a Port with a trading history of two thousand years, a quarter of a century may seem a petty span. Yet when more has happened to the Thames in that short time than in any hundred years of earlier life, the period deserves to have its record.
On the last day of March, 1909, the Port of London Authority took charge of the tidal reaches of the Thames and of the Capital’s Docks; and after a quarter of a century’s hard work they have re-built the sea-gate of the world.
This booklet attempts to sketch the Authority’s achievement, to give some account of the historic river they administer, and of the mighty City they serve.
A. B.
March, 1934.
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