Hay's Wharf
VHS Colour Silent c.1968 7:20
Summary: This video, a transfer of amateur 8mm films, shows the activity on and around Hay's Wharf, on the south side of the Thames. Boats float by. Workers unload cargo. From a high vantage point, perhaps the roof of a block of flats at Wyndham Road, the filmmaker provides a panoramic view of Southwark.
Title number: 3353
LSA ID: LSA/4401
Description: This video, a transfer of amateur 8mm films, shows the activity on and around Hay's Wharf, on the south side of the Thames. Boats float by. Workers unload cargo. From a high vantage point, perhaps the roof of a block of flats at Wyndham Road, the filmmaker provides a panoramic view of Southwark.
Further information: Videotape deposited with Southwark Local History Library by Len Hatch, a former member of Bermondsey and Rotherhithe Local History Society. The film was given to him by Chris Sutton who made the film and was also a docker at Mark Bowns Wharf (featured in the film). Mark Browns Wharf closed in 1969.
Keywords: Southwark; Bermondsey; docks; Mark Browns Wharf; Hays Wharf
Locations: Bermondsey, Southwark
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