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Four hundred years of the port, in a sugar warehouse that survived the Blitz.
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The building is the point of it: No. 1 Warehouse on West India Quay, built in 1802 to hold sugar from the Caribbean, one of the few original dock warehouses left standing. The free galleries work down through the floors in order. Trade Expansion covers the merchants, sailors and pirates of the 1600s and 1700s; London, Sugar and Slavery is the museum's account of what the wealth was built on, and does not flinch; City and River takes the docks, bridges and tunnels of the early 1800s. Sailortown is a walk-through reconstruction of a Wapping street in the 1840s, dark, narrow and loud. Then First Port of Empire, Warehouse of the World, Docklands at War, and New Port, New City on the collapse of the docks and what replaced them, which is visible from the door. Mudlarks is a hands-on gallery for under-eights.
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