St Katherine Docks, London 1976
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This 1976 photograph looks down across St Katharine Docks in London, where a dense marina of yachts, cabin cruisers and motor boats fills the old basin beneath the looming dockside warehouses. Timber masts, floating pontoons and a varied collection of leisure craft contrast sharply with the stern brick warehouse blocks beyond, some still showing signs of wear and incomplete conversion. The scene captures St Katharine Docks at a particularly revealing moment in its post-dock life, when the basin had already become a haven for private boats but the surrounding architecture still retained much of its working-riverside character. More than just a marina view, the image preserves the early phase of the docks’ reinvention, when historic warehouse London and the new leisure use of the basin were sharing the same space.
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