Nice photos Brian,
I can just make out Wapping Basin just before Salthouse dock. I spent a lot of time there on the Paris boats, Wm.H.Muller & Co. in the 60's. My ship was the "Somme" and I was on her for two years as AB and Mate. A nice run, Liverpool/Manchester to Rouen/Paris.
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Wapping basin was very old fashioned and we used our own derricks to discharge and load. We only had one derrick per hatch so the dockers used the swinging derrick method. (I won't go into that here).
I believe there all yuppie flats there now.
Alec.
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