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.