-
unpowered lighters moved by oar and
water currents in the Port of London.
Lightermen were one of the most
characteristic groups of
workers in London's docks...
- The
Company of
Watermen and
Lightermen (CWL) is a
historic City
guild in the City of London. However,
unlike the city's 111
livery companies, CWL does...
- As with
their English counterparts,
lightermen in
Singapore were men who
worked on a
lighter or on a barge.
Their primary role was to
transport cargo between...
- The Free
Watermen and
Lightermen's Almshouses (generally
known as the
Royal Watermen's Almshouses) on
Beckenham Road /
Penge High Street, Penge, London...
-
combined with
their colleagues in
cargo to form the
Company of
Watermen and
Lightermen. The free
water clause,
introduced by the West
India Dock Act of 1799...
-
livery companies own
premises in London, as well as the
Watermen and
Lightermen which although not
strictly a
livery company,
retains headquarters still...
-
Lightermen and
Bargemen was a
trade union in the
United Kingdom. The
union was
founded in 1889 as the
Amalgamated Society of
Watermen and
Lightermen of...
- and rubber; and so on. The
docks required an army of workers,
chiefly lightermen (who
carried loads between ships and
quays aboard small barges called...
- the
Royal Watermen,
drawn from the
ranks of the
Company of
Watermen and
Lightermen. In 1798,
Watermen and
other groups of
river tradesmen on the
River Thames...
-
power of
water currents. They were
operated by
skilled workers called lightermen and were a
characteristic sight in London's
docks until about the 1960s...
