Blackfriars Bridge and Bankside 20th century Frame:gold Porters and dockers wheeling sack

Porters and dockers wheeling sack barrows in from the quayside halted briefly for John H Avery to take this photo

horse-drawn buses and trams

Dandy Pickpockets

The working wooden crane is the focal point of this busy yard where a magnetic pulley can lift the shipping containers from ship to dock to lorry and back again

Blackfriars Bridge and Bankside 20th century Frame:gold Porters and dockers wheeling sackBlackfriars Bridge and Bankside. George Davison Reid photographed this riverside scene that includes Blackfriars Bridge and the old Bankside Power Station. A power station built by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott replaced this one in 1941. At the end of the 20th century, the disused site became home to the Tate Modern art gallery.