Title

Men clean and paint the hull of a ship in the New Dry Dock, Tilbury Docks, Tilbury, c1945-c1965

Caption

Men clean and paint the hull of a ship in the New Dry Dock, Tilbury Docks, Tilbury, Essex, c1945-c1965. One of its large propellors can be clearly seen, as the men are dwarfed by the size of the ship standing on scaffolding cleaning and painting its side.

Date

1945

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19A78_268

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53,4Mb (1,3Mb) / 18,1in x 11,5in / 5433 x 3437 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation England people male man men paint clean guy ship ships scaffold scaffolding wharf docks dock location century tilbury docks tilbury Essex dry dock B&W 1940s MONOCHROME propeller fifties 1950s Forties Sixties water transport black & white black and white B W 1960s 20th century English Heritage decade TGN photograph SW Rawlings Rawlings SW photograph