Very interesting Jim. Which dock did you work on? My uncle was a lorry driver taking stuff into the docks for Metropolitan Vickers. Sometimes he used to let me go with him.

Our favouite was Victoria. Most places there they wouldn't let me out of the driver's cab, because I was little and there were guys with cranes with big chains swinging down from them, which they used to fasten round the big machine parts on the back of the lorry.

But on Victoria we used to get out and feed the pigeons. I remember a big black one - we called it Mosley.