LONDON DOCKS.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. SOME INTERESTING FIGURES. (BSITISH WIHELESS.): • ■ - RUGBY, September 1& Next -week the London Docks,- where sightseers are not usually, encouraged, .will be open to visitors who, on payment of a fee for hospital and -dock-, land: charities, will be taken on tours round, the commercial heart . of the Empire. Tne docks to be visited include the ■Victoria and Albert and King. George the Fifth group,, which - makes the .largest...enclosed • dock in. the world, covering 245 acres with ~12 miles of "Quays where' half 4 --million tons of shipping may lip at one -time- and where the . warehouses And.. refrigerating plant' have afccomm6datibii for 3,500,C00 carcases. - : .The. visitors will also see the Millwall Docks,., where a, week s supply, of grain for Louden (24,000 tons) is stored in oine'granary and . cleared, at •the rate of 500 tons hourly. Twenty-six miles, .of river, 45 .miles of quayside, 700 acres of " dock water, and many ships • in port-will be surveyed during the tours.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20038, 20 September 1930, Page 15
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