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Description: | In the 18th and 19th centuries, and into the 20th, the Port of London was a hub of world trade, and formed the backbone of London?s economy. The area known as Docklands today was filled with warehouses where ships from all over the British Empire and the world were loaded and unloaded. However, from the late 1960s to the 1980s, the Port of London declined massively, and many of the docks and warehouses along the riverside closed down. This led to the development of the Docklands from the 1980s onwards as an area of corporate offices and high-status housing. Some of the old warehouses can be seen in the background of this picture. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | Bishopsgate Institute | Subjects: | Environment Transport Cityscape | Temporal: | 1984 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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