PORT OF LONDON
DOCKS OPEN TO VISITORS
, HEAET ,OF EMPIRE TRADE
British Official Wireless.
RUGBY, 18th September,
Next week the London docks, whoro sightseers are not usually encouraged, will be open to visitors, who on payment of a fee, for hospital and dockland charities, will be taken tours round the commercial heart of the Empire.
The docks to be visited include the Victoria and Albert and King George the Fifth group, which makes the largest enclosed dock in tho world, covering 245 acres, .with twelve miles of quays, where half a million tons of shipping may lie at one time, and where the warehouses and rofrigerating plant have accommodation for 3J million carcasses.
Visitors will also see Millwall docks, where a week's supply of grain for London, 24,000 tons, is stored in one granary, and cleared at tho rate of 500 tons an hour; 26 miles of river, 45 miles of quayside, 700 acres of dock water, and many ships in port will be surveyed during the tours.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 71, 20 September 1930, Page 9
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168PORT OF LONDON Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 71, 20 September 1930, Page 9
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