Storage at the Tilbury Docks: 1919 Frame:Black Causeways and stairs lined the

Causeways and stairs lined the Thames riverfront

Gladys Roberts and Edith New

the fish was then delivered door to door

Standing alongside this statue of the 19th-century Statesman Lord Palmerston

a postman and sandwich-board men

Storage at the Tilbury Docks: 1919 Frame:Black Causeways and stairs lined theInterior view of a storage room at the Tilbury docks. Salmon shipped in from Cordova, Alaska, and Monte Vista apricots from North America were temporarily stored in this transit shed in Tilbury Docks. The fruit trade was increasing at this time, and cargoes were dispatched at the Royal Victoria, Albert, King George V and Tilbury Docks. Cases were lifted from the cold storage holds on board ships and deposited into the large airy transit sheds at each