Thames & Docklands History Group
London’s Port and Docklands Since 1945 Conference
Saturday 4th October 2025
Wilberforce Room – London Museum Docklands
Outline Timetable and Programme
09.30 London Museum Dockland’s doors open;
Registration and refreshments in the Quayside Room
10.15 Welcome and Opening Remarks
10.30 Dr. Chris Ellmers – The changing Port of London - 1945-1990
11.00 Professor Janet Foster – Islanders, interlopers and intruders: perspectives on the development of the Isle of Dogs in the 1980s and 1990s
11.30 Mike Seaborne – Urban transformation: photographing London’s Docklands in the
1980s and 1990s
12.00 Comfort Break
12.15 Edward Sargent FSA – Conservation in Docklands during the 1980s
12.45 Dr. Tim Carter – Seafarers health care: the Dreadnought Hospitals before and after
the NHS
13.15 Film – Waters of Time (1951)
14.00 Film – Documentary film of Docklands regeneration (early 1990s)
14.30 Conference closes
