Rarely-seen images capture life at Port of London from the 20th century

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The famous image, taken by John Topham in Limehouse in 1927, shows the then well-known Mrs Mary Smith carrying out her work as a ‘knocker upper’: someone who earned money waking up industrial workers so they got to their shifts on time.

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