Working Thames Sailing Barge.

Benfleet Creek c1935.

While camping by the Hadleigh Salvation Army jetty about 1935, I took this photo of a sailing barge which had just discharged her cargo of sand and ballast at the Benfleet wharf of the Leigh Building Supply Company in Ferry Road, just past the railway crossing. The photo was taken with a Kodak Brownie Box Camera which I still have.

Passing the old Salvation Army Jetty.
Ian Hawks.
Site of Leigh Building Supply Wharf, taken from the old foot bridge.
Ian Hawks.
Camp site by the jetty.
Ian Hawks.
Sailing barges waiting to be loaded with grain in Victoria Docks, London. 1939.
Ian Hawks.
Loaded sailing barge leaving London docks.
Ian Hawks.

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