Port of Tilbury
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The Port of Tilbury is a port located on the River Thames at Tilbury in Essex, England. It serves as the principal port for London, as well as being the main United Kingdom port for handling the impor
Container ship Carpathia unloading at Northfleet Hope terminal
Tilbury Docks on a target dossier of the German Luftwaffe, 1939
Ship discharging at Tilbury Grain Terminal
Tilbury Docks, June 2017
Port of London
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The Port of London is that part of the River Thames in England lying between Teddington Lock and the defined boundary with the North Sea and including any associated docks. Once the largest port in th
Former Port of London Authority Building, 10 Trinity Square, Tower Hill
Legal Quays between Billingsgate Dock and the Tower of London in John Rocque's plan of 1746. Behind Legal Quays lay Thames Street, with its warehouses, sugar refineries and cooperages.
James Elmes' chart of the port, 1837, showing the enclosed docks at the beginning of Queen Victoria's reign
The London docks in 1882. The King George V Dock (and Tilbury Docks, much further downstream) had not yet been built.