Albert Dock 1924/Men unloading grain at the docks

Category

Library Item

Item no

37830

Title

Page from Leith Miscellany, volume VIII, Albert Dock 1924/Men unloading grain at the docks

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1983

Type

Photograph; Reproduction

Albert Dock opened in 1869. At the time of this photograph considerable quantities of goods arrived at Leith and were transported onwards by horses and carts. Of more recent years new houses have been built around the site although the dock is still operational.

These photographs show how labour-intensive unloading goods at the docks was in the 1920s and 1930s.

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