A View of Chelsea Waterworks: 1752 Frame:gold George Davison Reid photographed activity

George Davison Reid photographed activity along the banks of the River Thames extensively during the late 1920s and early 1930s

The fork of Buckland Crescent and Belsize Park was a short walk from the family's Adamson Road home

with some of the thousands of British workers engaged upon the construction of sections of the prefabricated ports

both in the name of Manze

A View of Chelsea Waterworks: 1752 Frame:gold George Davison Reid photographed activityA View of Chelsea Waterworks buildings, sluices and waterways. A cart with a watertank, wooden pipes, a derrick, visitors and a background view of Chelsea village. No. 5 in a series.