Trades & Workers
Sharpen your understanding of London’s factories, warehouses, docks, markets and shops with our related objects, stories and blogs.
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Rights & Activism
Rights & Activism
The Grunwick strike, 1976–1978
One of the defining industrial disputes of the 1970s happened in a north-west London suburb
Fashion & Style
Fashion & Style
London’s lost department stores
Circus animals? Couture workshops? Shopping used to look a bit different
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Trades & Workers
Hop-picking: Londoners’ working holiday
Going ‘hopping’ in Kent was once a rare summertime escape from city life
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Photography
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Royal Victoria Dock. Discharging meat at No. 2 shed, ex 'Highland Chieftain'. 7th Oct. 1929. (cellulose acetate)
Linney, Albert Gravely
1929-10-07