Dockers Collection

Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour, visits Liverpool Docks, Saturday 13th November 1943, from left to right, Mr M Fallon (aged 76) 56 years dock service, Ernest Bevin, Alderman Simon Mahon

The trawler Stella Leonis seen here offloading her catch of cod at St Andrews Dock. 14th January 1965

Dockers busy unloading cargo at Cardiff Docks, a port in southern Cardiff, Wales. 18th April 1939

Meals for the dockers. Picture taken 5th January 1942

Scenes around Manchester Docks. 12th June 1967

Unloading rubber at Cardiff Docks. 13th July 1976

The first shipment for over 12 months, including meat, butter, flour and canned goods, at Kings Wharf, Cardiff. 15th January 1957

Cardiff Docks. Circa 1960

Liverpool Docks 1932. The amount of cargo passing through Liverpool docks grew rapidly at the start of the 20th century, partly driven by new facilities built by the railway companies that served

Cilla Black on a boat in Liverpool. 19th February 1964

The crew of the St Jason seen here landing their catch of frozen cod. 22nd August 1968

Rudder repairs in progress on a ship on one of the pontoons, Smiths Dock Co. Limited. North Shields. 7th October 1936

The crowd massed in Hamilton Square Birkenhead at the Memorial Service for the Thetis. Among the were the dockers you see in the picture on the left joining bareheaded in the singing of the hymns

Smiths Dock Company, North Shields Docks. 7th October 1938

Stacking barrels of herrings in the filling yards at Yarmouth, Norfolk. 18th November 1935

Peter Pearson, docker, of Seven kings-Ilford, starts his day at 6 am and finished at 7.30pm. The dockers assemble to await the allocation of work to their individual gangs

Unloading goods at Liverpool Docks, 5 December 1938

Dried beans being unloaded at Liverpool Dock, 21st February 1942

Michael Foot canvassing outside the dockyard gates in Devonport with his wife Jill, for the 1950 general election. 8th February 1950. Member of Parliament MP

Tyne Bridges, Newcastle The high level road bridge, the swing bridge and the railway bridges spanning the River Tyne in Newcastle. Circa 1936

This 400 foot floating dock, built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson, left the firms Wallsend shipyard for Apapa. The 4, 000 ton dock, for the Nigerian Port Authority

Back to work at the London Docks after the two week official nationwide dock strike by 47, 000 in 1970

The Carlide from Norway getting unloaded from the "Pallas"in the Tyne
The Carlide from Norway getting unloaded from the " Pallas" in the Tyne. Even if the dock strike comes it looks as though this boat will be unloaded on time in 1970

Dockers at North Shields suspended their strike at 8 a. m
Dockers at North Shields suspended their strike at 8 a.m. today to unload a massive cargo of fish from the Ranger Ajax, a freezer trawler in July 1970

A 110 ton part of a floating crane lifeted by a floating crane into a Canadian bound ship in 1977

It was business as usual at the Albert Edwar Dock, North Shields, in spite of the national dock strike. The strike was suspended to save 180 tons of fish in the holds of the freezer trawler Ranger

World War II Women: Women Dockers at a Northern Port. Mrs. Hunter (with load on her back) mother of four children, whose husband is in the forces photographed at work on the docks

Dockers begin to unload a cargo of oranges at the Newcastle Quayside in 1978

Builders at work on the new extension at Southampton docks, 1932 Alf 239

Miss Ellen Wilkinson canvassing members of her constituency outside Palmers Shipyard, Jarrow-on-Tyne, where the RMS Olympia is lying waiting to be broken up

Aerial view showing ork on the new extension at Southampton docks, 1932 Alf 239

General view at Southampton docks showing potatoes from Jersey being unloaded, 1932 Alf 241

Locals watch the approach of the troopship carrying the Argyle and Sutherland highlanders to Atkinson Wharf 25 miles from George Town British Guiana the following their sea voyage from England

Dockers on Newcastles Quayside. c. 1930
Dockers on Newcastles Quayside. c.1930

Dockers unloading a cargo of sugar. circa 1960

Liverpool Dockers unloading ships in the Dockyards August 1965

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