Descriptive Map of London Poverty Section 40 1889 Size:large Steamers carried freight and passengers

Steamers carried freight and passengers from there towards Rotterdam

The working wooden crane is the focal point of this busy yard where a magnetic pulley can lift the shipping containers from ship to dock to lorry and back again

The section covers the area between Upper Gloucester Place in the North West

providing employment for over 100

clowns and equestrians who performed at the circus during its month-long run

Descriptive Map of London Poverty Section 40 1889 Size:large Steamers carried freight and passengersSection 40 of the original Descriptive Map of London Poverty, 1889, compiled and hand coloured by Charles Booth and assistants. The section covers the area between the Horseferry stairs in the North West; West India Dock in the North East; Millbank Dock in the South East and South Dock in the South West. The districts covered are Rotherhithe and the Isle of Dogs