“The Ticket Porter” tavern in Arthurstreet. near the Monument in London, was formerly, as its name implies, a favourite meeting-place for the ticket porters, the aristocrats of the riverside labourers before the coming of the docks. In those days, when all vessels entering the Port of London had to unload their cargoes into lighters moored alongside in the river, the ticket porters and the tackle porters between them alone possessed the right to handle all sea-borne coal, corn, salt, and sundry other commodities. They wore the City arms as their badge, and kept count of the loads they carried by means of curious leathern tallies, many specimens of which are preserved in the Guildhall Museum.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18785, 14 June 1929, Page 10
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115Page 10 Advertisements Column 2 Star (Christchurch), Issue 18785, 14 June 1929, Page 10
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