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The port provided London with its great wealth and relied heavily on the transshipping skills of watermen and lightermen to run smoothly.

In 1871 the Labour Protection League gave lightermen in particular the ability to negotiate better terms from their employers.

In 1889 following the lead taken by stevedores, watermen and lightermen joined the successful The Great London Dock Strike and the Amalgamated Society of Watermen, Lightermen and Bargemen was hastily formed in 1893 eventually merging with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1922.

Bombing during the Blitz of World War II severely damaged the docks, and by the 1960s, newer container technology and relocation to Tilbury had made the lightermen's trade, lighterage, obsolete.

In 1975 a charity called Transport On Water (TOW) was founded by watermen and lightermen and people in public life.