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The company employed lightermen - workers who used flat-bottomed barges to move goods between ships and quays - and they would pull up to collect their wages from 41 Rotherhithe Street.

The Darter is an ex-boxer but he’s also an expert in navigation, descended from generations of lightermen, those who know every creek and tideway of the London stretches of the Thames.

Even in the 1970s, the estuary was busy with lighters and lightermen – lovely times, says Mr Pace, but all gone.

All the firemen in London must be watermen or lightermen.

For, you see, there are gangs who make it a practice to work with lightermen and with sailors; and sometimes by night, sometimes in open day—they carry off prizes that are pretty valuable.