Winston Churchill East India Docks 1944 Size:small with plates after Joseph Farington

with plates after Joseph Farington

The noise of the blast could be heard as far away as Southampton and Norwich

The two fashionable ladies in the centre are the Duchess of Devonshire and her sister

View of alleyway with houses of Parliament in the background

Horses were still integral to the running of the docks

Winston Churchill East India Docks 1944 Size:small with plates after Joseph FaringtonThe 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