LONG FERRY.m4v

FESCH.TV INFORMIERT:

A simple animation of sketchbook drawings made by the Thames at Gravesend during lockdown, where shipping continued to travel back and forth between London and Europe, and occasionally further afield – for example an American liner called Columbus spent more than 6 months locked down at Tilbury, where years before the Windrush had docked. The ‚long ferry‘ refers to a flotilla of small passenger vessels that had for centuries plied between Gravesend and the pool of London, eventually made redundant by the coming of the railway, itself heralded (as Dickens testily observes in Great Expectations) by those steam-powered vessels that superseded the great sailing ships.