File:2012 - The Landed ( Dockers ) Bronze sculpture , Royal Victoria Dock, London, United Kingdom ( Ank Kumar ) 02.jpg

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2012 - 'Landed' / 'Dockers' Bronze sculpture at Royal Victoria Docks, London, United Kingdom

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English: 'Landed' / 'Dockers' is a bronze sculpture in the redeveloped Royal Docks, mounted close to the main entrance of the enormous ExCeL Exhibition Centre.

it depicts the dockworkers who used to earn there living in this area until the dock closures in the early 1980s.

It was sculpted by the famous sculptor Leslie Godschall Johnson( Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors). With 9ft height, it is one of the largest sculptures in London. They were made by London's Bronze Age Foundry and unveiled in 2009.

The three figures depicted in the statue are: John Ringwood, an ex Seaman who later worker in the Docks; Patrick Holland from Custom House, who worked as a Stevedore in the Docks for 20 years and Mark Tibbs, who comes from a Boxing family in Canning Town.

http://www.lesjohnsonsculptor.com/public-commissions

https://sculptors.org.uk/artists/les-johnson

https://www.bronzeage.co.uk/
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