Port of London

the former building of Port of London Authority

The Port of London was the main port of London. It no longer operates as a port: see London Docklands for an account. The river now operates as an alternative means of travel for work and recreation. It is not a major commercial port for importing and exporting goods. The Port of London Authority is still the legal authority controlling all use of the river.

The port was in the Thames at the city center. Major import and export trade is now done at the container port at Felixstowe in Suffolk. In 2010 the British government started building a new port outside the city, on the north bank of the river in Thurrock, Essex. The new project is called: London Gateway.

Port Of London Media

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  1905 Thames wharf map from London Bridge to Limehouse showing the Pool of London

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  Legal Quays between Billingsgate Dock and the Tower of London in John Rocque's plan of 1746. Behind Legal Quays lay Thames Street, with its warehouses, sugar refineries and cooperages.

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  James Elmes' chart of the port, 1837, showing the enclosed docks at the beginning of Queen Victoria's reign.

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  The London docks in 1882. The King George V Dock (and Tilbury Docks, much further downstream) had not yet been built.

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  Charles de Lacy, "Mist in port, London"

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  Workers of the port of London unloading "Argentine chilled beef", August 1935.

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  A ship berths in the busy Upper Pool in 1962

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  Tilbury in 1946, before major expansion as a container port.

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  Container ship Carpathia unloading at Northfleet Hope terminal, Tilbury

Other websites

• Port of London Archived 2008-02-22 at the Wayback Machine - the website of the Port of London Authority
• PortCities London Home Archived 2020-08-23 at the Wayback Machine
• The Port of London in 1819
• Port of Tilbury
• London Gateway Planning Inquiry