Specialist collections
We have a variety of specialist collections from HM Custom and Excise documentation to finds of the 17th and 18th century made on the Thames foreshore.
- H M Customs and Excise
- Dock Police, including uniforms, fire arms, cutlasses and truncheons
- Trade union items, including an 1889 Great Dock Strike Banner
- Dock surveying equipment
- Transport by road and rail including some vehicles and material relating to the PLA Railway Department
- Administrative material, including office equipment and furniture from the period 1850-1970
- Occupational clothing
- Fire-fighting equipment
- Wartime items
- Signs and notices relating to every conceivable aspect of port and river work
- Coal trade items
- Whaling items relating to London’s Greenland and Southern Whale Fisheries
- Foreshore finds, including seventeenth and eighteenth century items.