In the 1960s the amount of goods handled in the Port of London reached record levels. Yet in 1967 the East India Dock closed, followed one year later by the London and St Katharine Docks.
At the beginning of the 1980s the last of the upstream docks closed when the Royal Docks stopped operations in 1981.
To understand why this happened in such a short space of time we must look at important changes which had been taking place since the Second World War. The full force of these changes hit the docks in the 1960s and 1970s.
Friday, 1 August 2008
The Closure of the Docks - The London borough of Barking and Dagenham.
