PLA Thames Pilots at Work

Film footage showing a passenger ship Tilbury Landing Stage, and a PLA pilot boarding sugar ship bound for Thames Refinery. The Liquid Highway spotted this one…

So what year would this be? I’d guess it was some time in the 1960s, judging by the fashions. There’s a short segment featuring a sailing barge – which is it barge folks?

Oh, and there’s this from 1963. ‘A boatman makes his way up Wapping old stairs for a quick one in the Town of Wapping pub.’