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Unfortunately, London during the 1600's was not somewhere you wanted to be. The streets were overcrowded and disease and foul odors were everywhere. However, business during this time period was booming and people who worked on the docks could stand to make a good living for themselves and their families.
There is not an exact figure of the first night of the Blitz. I did find this record regarding the air raids done by the German Bomber Planes. The first intentional air raids on London were mainly aimed at the Port of London, causing severe damage. Late in the afternoon of 7 September, 364 bombers attacked, escorted by 515 fighters. Another 133 bombers attacked that night. Many of the bombs aimed at the docks fell on neighbouring residential areas, killing 436 Londoners and injuring 1,666. This comes from Wikipedia Encyclopedia under the heading of The Blitz. See related link below to read the rest of it.
Depends on where you were. If you were in London, or any of the industrial centers like Coventry, Birmingham or West Bromwich, or anywhere there was a docks, you could pretty much expect the Luftwaffe to come calling every night of the week, week after week with tons and tons of bombs.
British Transport Docks Board ended in 1981.
Jobs at the docks or factories were the most common.
They used to be in London's docks but no commercial shipping comes in to London now. Some of the names of the wharfs still live on, but they're not used for their original purpose.
They were bombed by the German luftwaffe.
London Docks ceased to be used for shipping in the 1970's and 80's because modern ships had become too big to access them. Since then the Docklands area has been re-developed into a mixture of residential, commercial and light industrial premises.
The old London Docks have been converted - or are in the process of being converted - into residential and office accommodation. There is even an airport on one of the old docks.
For the importing and exporting of seaborne goods. They fell into disuse during the 1970's and 80's due to the containerisation of import/export goods and the much bigger ships needed for this trade which the London docks weren't big enough to handle.
Major unemployment in East London.
There is a train service from London Fenchuch Street station to Tilbury Town station, which is adjacent to Tilbury Docks. Trains are operated by c2c.
In East London in the old London Docks area now known as Docklands.
Boat docks are most commonly used for the departure and arrival of boats and ships. Boat Docks are also used for loading and unloading cargo such as when using boats for shipping.
Tilbury Docks in Essex, England, were used as the waters of Venice for the high speed boat chase in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
They didn't. London's docks were at their busiest in the 19th century and didn't start declining until the 1970's with the introduction of containers and ships that were too large for London's docks.
Most of them - especially near the docks in east London.