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When I were a wee young whippersnapper, and stuff was still fairly difficult to buy in t' shops, the height of luxury at Christmas was a bottle of Lutomer Laski Riesling medium sweet white wine. This came from Yugoslavia, imported in bulk by Teltscher Bros. Ltd. (i.e. it was shipped in huge containers into London.) The wine, ( I shall have to call it that, because that is about the most approximate description of the slightly amber coloured liquid) was pumped ashore into the bottling plant, where thousands of bottles were filled, labelled, packed into boxes and delivered to off - licences and restaurants all over the United Kingdom. Where did all this highly sophisticated activity take place? Why, on the Isle of Dogs of course. In the docks.
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