Abstract

The nature of urban historical and geographical studies encouragescareful pf?ysical description and analYsis. Almost every academic observer is either working from documentary records or from current observation. Interviews and correspondencewith persons or bodies responsible for decision making) or able to provide the all important (angles') are not usuallY a major feature of such papers. This paper is a much shortened) modified version of a working document produced in the debates and discussions immediatelY following the announceJnent by the Port of London AuthoriD' (PLA) in Mcry I978 that they wished to close the West India) Millwall and Royal Groups of Docks. That first document unashamedlY took a particular viewpoint) both concerning the administration of the PLA and the potential of the Thames and the docks of Greater London) all of which would have be~n closed if the original PLA proposals had been accepted. My thanks are due to the PLA for checking or providing the statistics used. It mcry be indicative of new attitudes that they quoted one of my passages most critical of their stewardship in their Discussion Paper No 2. (JulY 1978). Officials of the PLA) and the Trade Unions) togetherwith large' numbers of persons involved in all rypes of Port activiry have directlY or indirectlY contributed to this paper. Without their help and stimulation it would not have been written. The views expressed are entirety those of the author) but are of a provisional nature.

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