Dear Gay Thank you very much for all these sites. I shall indeed visit them. Besides working on tugs, several of my forebears worked in the docks and my great, great grandparents lived in Dock Cottages which was a row of houses right up against the dock wall of the East India Docks. They were for dock workers to live in with the idea that they could be first on the scene if a fire broke out in any part of the docks. My dad actually saw these cottages before they were finally pulled down and said that they were "funny little houses". They were so badly built when first erected that they had to be pulled down and rebuilt. Have you visited the Docklands Museum? That is a fascinating place and you can reuse your entrance ticket as many times as you wish over a whole year. Believe me, if you are near enough and able, it is a very good deal as one visit cannot possibly be enough to do justice to all the exhibits and information displayed. I only wish I lived nearer and could have taken advantage of my ticket by repeat visits. Thank you for your help. I shall keep the list posted as to any solution I may find. Audrey ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 11:08 AM Subject: Re: [OEL] mariners > Hello Audrey, > > there's an excellent website all about the history of London as a PORT > CITY: > > http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/nav.001 > > In addition, the Royal Naval Maritime Museum at Greenwich: > > http://www.greenwichfoundation.org.uk/ > > Plus information about the Royal Naval Dockyards at Deptford: > > http://www.port.nmm.ac.uk/research/b5.html > > There is also a wonderful website about Victorian London, rather later > than > 1801, but still good: > > http://www.victorianlondon.org/ > > > Have Fun! > > GAY > > > > > Gay J Oliver, Stalybridge, Cheshire > www.members.aol.com/victoroly/genealogy.htm > www.members.aol.com/gayjoliver/Tameside.htm > www.fhsc.org.uk/fhsc/dukinfield.htm > www.tamesidehistoryforum.org.uk > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.12/462 - Release Date: > 03/10/2006 > >