When the Thames was still a working river

I am of that generation who remembers the River Thames as a working river and the Pool of London as a place full of ocean going ships.

In the 1950s the stretch of water from London Bridge to Tower Bridge was still full of warehouses and cranes.

Not that I want to slide into some nostalgic rosy picture of the past.

Working the river was hard and dangerous and the rewards were not always wonderful.

But that was just how it was and so over the never few days I want to reflect on that period with a series of picture postcards from Tuck and Sons.

This one dates from 1936 and is  special, because round about the same time that it was issued my dad bought a series of guide books to London which he used for work.

And there in the pages of the book was a very similar one to the image I have chosen.

Picture; River Thames showing Tower Bridge, 1936 from the series London, issued by Tuck & Sons, courtesy of Tuck DB, http://tuckdb.org/