Unloading Cargo at Mark Brown's Wharf, 1968 a video by London Metropolitan Archives on Flickr. This short clip is taken from an Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) film entitled "Looking at London: Tower Bridge", transmitted via cable to schools across the Inner London area during the late 1960s. By coincidence, I remember the last concert given by ILEA at Albert Hall, featuring jazz bands, steel bands, youth orchestras, a lone (bag-)piper.... I can't help thinking that atomising provision first to boroughs, then to individual schools, has been cultural vandalism on a barbaric scale... but I digress
Different world in 1968. The warehouse, where this was filmed, now look like
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| Potters Fields Park and City Hall with More London behind |
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I visited London in 1968 - as a child. We went to the USSR exhibition at Olympia and i was excited to see the capsule Yuri Gagarin had orbited the world in. We also went down to Tower Bridge and I remember Wapping as being a forbidding and slightly scary place
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