The Dock Road was still, certainly the north end, was very much bounded by the dock wall with dock gates and you did not go in. I could not go in without an invitation, for example my husband ...

The bomb damage was still evident on this stretch of the warehousing (indicates on map), as we say in the canal trade the bottom was too near the top and that was in dire need of dredging, it ...

The complex of warehouses and everything was intact but the water was completely drained, and there was no water in the Albert Dock itself and the related docks. It was totally covered in mud ...

"They used to make cargo nets and ships fenders." Colin Drakefield

My mother got me the job in order to get me home from Norway where I looked like I was going to take route and because it combined my two major interests of Norway and shipping. I remember wa...

It was old Custom House and it was bombed during the war. Now I remember us playing in there and we used to call it the Dungeons when we were kids, we’d only be about seven or eight. I was bor...