Floating Grain Elevator Royal Victoria Dock c.1938 Frame:white In the foreground Chinese sailors

In the foreground Chinese sailors or Lascars are helping to break the cargo

This is one of a group of his paintings of his neighbourhood

The platforms of the completed Notting Hill Gate Station

For Vanity Fair Issue (M) 191

Southwark Reservoir in the South East and Battersea Park in the South West

Floating Grain Elevator Royal Victoria Dock c.1938 Frame:white In the foreground Chinese sailorsFloating Grain Elevator shooting grain into a lighter, Royal Victoria Dock, c. 1938. Loose grain was sucked up out of a ship's hold and then shot out into a barge. Corn porters working in the ship were sometimes called toe rags, due to the cloths protecting their legs.