Winston Churchill East India Docks 1944 Size:small St Paul's in the centre

St Paul's in the centre

The two fashionable ladies in the centre are the Duchess of Devonshire and her sister

and featured designs and artworks by Sylvia Pankhurst

View of alleyway with houses of Parliament in the background

Anish Kapoor

Winston Churchill East India Docks 1944 Size:small St Paul's in the centreThe Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, with some of the thousands of British workers engaged upon the construction of sections of the prefabricated ports, East India Dock, 1944. Two prefabricated ports, each as big as Gibralter, were manufactured in Britain in sections, towed across the channel, and set down off the coast of Normandy. The use of the prefabricated Port greatly simplified the problem of supplying the Allied Armies in France. The dock