‘Package deal for a new Thames’ (16 July 1967) was an illustration of how London’s docks would soon look, with unloading and reloading a ship being cut from six days to six hours. ‘Tilbury’s container port… is the prototype of the new Port of London, able to compete with the European giants, like Rotterdam.’
The sociologists Michael Young and Peter Willmott planned a ‘new, lived-in Thameside’, and the ‘fresh opportunities to make the Thames the showpiece it could be, for visitors and Londoners alike… on impressive Venetian lines’.
