Title

A Chapman Light in the Thames Estuary off Canvey Island, Essex, c1945-c1965

Caption

A Chapman Light in the Thames Estuary off Canvey Island, Essex, c1945-c1965. These lights were used as navigational aids to keep shipping in the main shipping lanes and off the many sandbanks in the Thames Estuary.

Date

1945

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19A79_318

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53,9Mb (1,1Mb) / 11,8in x 17,8in / 3539 x 5326 (300dpi)

Keywords

sea England flag flags light tower isolation geography structure lighthouse direction century banner Essex concept navigation B&W 1940s MONOCHROME standard fifties estuary 1950s Forties Sixties black & white black and white B W 1960s 20th century Thames Estuary English Heritage Chapman Light decade geographical feature TGN photograph manuscript SW Rawlings Rawlings SW photograph manuscript