Unloading Cargo at Mark Brown's Wharf, 1968

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 

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

RUSSIAN EXHIBITION

The Pool of London, England

The Pool of London, England, a photo by Striderv on Flickr.

The Pool of London included the area upstream of Tower Bridge, upto London Bridge, where cargoe ships could dock alongside river wharfs with warehouses directly loaded from the ships. This area has been transformed by the ugly grey boring brutalist offices of More London, one or two warehouses have been converted to add a smidgen of Heritage-d landscape. However, the character has changed utterly, from a Historic Landscape Type of river port wharfs to one of comercial offices - as the economy has been subsumed into an aspect of financial services. London's role as the omphalos of a world empire to offshore banking centre sui generis has been the driver of these changes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_London