Lightship Nore, St Katharine Docks, London 1976
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This 1976 photograph shows the preserved lightship Nore moored at St Katharine Docks in London, with Tower Bridge rising in the distance and the Tower Hotel behind. The lightship’s bright red lantern tower and white hull stand out against the harder lines of the surrounding redevelopment, while the dockside chains, mooring gear and adjacent vessels preserve some sense of the area’s earlier working life. The contrast is especially striking here, with old maritime infrastructure, Victorian brickwork and late-twentieth-century commercial architecture all compressed into the same view. More than just a dockside scene, the image captures St Katharine Docks at a moment when historic river craft and landmark London views still sat within a landscape being rapidly reshaped by redevelopment.
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