My father Sidney Jacob Scales, was a stevedore who worked in the Royal Albert Docks all his life. Both the journey to work through the Blackwall Tunnel every day and the work itself was hard. I drew these sketches between the late 1940's and 50's when my father came home from work exhausted. It was a tough life as these sketches show but his exhaustion meant he was the perfect model for his teenage son at Camberwell School of Art! Now looking back they seem to speak volumes...
