Winston Churchill East India Docks 1944 Size:small and featured designs and artworks

and featured designs and artworks by Sylvia Pankhurst

Anish Kapoor

with plates after Joseph Farington

Horses were still integral to the running of the docks

this book is both an atmospheric travelogue and a celebration of resilience in the face of change

Winston Churchill East India Docks 1944 Size:small and featured designs and artworksThe Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, with some of the thousands of British workers engaged upon the construction of sections of the prefabricated ports, East India Dock, 1944. Two prefabricated ports, each as big as Gibralter, were manufactured in Britain in sections, towed across the channel, and set down off the coast of Normandy. The use of the prefabricated Port greatly simplified the problem of supplying the Allied Armies in France. The dock