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On Monday 24th June, 80 Year 7 students made the trip to London to visit the Museum of Docklands. Our trip was for both history and geography.

The Museum of Docklands is housed in one of the old warehouses originally owned by the West Indian Company.

In the first gallery, students were able to gain an understanding of the quayside and warehouse unloading and weighing of goods (particularly sugar, cotton and tobacco) bought into the country from the West Indies.

 

 

 

Our second gallery helped students to understand the scale of shipping involved in slavery, the vast profits made and the poor treatment of enslaved Africans.

In the third gallery we were able to experience Sailor Town and thereafter the museum galleries focussed on the way in which the quayside, shipping and trade changed through the Industrial Revolution and Second World War.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our final gallery concentrated on the urban regeneration of the docks post war, students were able to identify changes in use to residential, business, leisure and tourism.

 

 

 

 

 

Once outside the museum, students were able to see these changes in action as we took a stroll around the Canary Wharf and sketched the skyline.