Working History
This collection reflects the historic trade and industry of the city through tools and workshop treasures, from clocks to wheelwrights to ballet shoe-making.
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Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers
West India Docks
These were once the world’s largest docks, built to handle goods from Caribbean slave plantations
From our experts
From our experts
Rediscover London's lost art of flower-making
Explore the almost-lost but enchanting Victorian craft of flower-making, once a bustling industry in London
Transport
Transport
St Barbara: Guardian of the Crossrail tunnel
The medieval saint who watched over the Elizabeth Line