Women in Shipbuilding Gallery 6: Historic England Aerial Photography

Women in Shipbuilding: Historic England Aerial Photography

Aerial photographs from the 1920s and 1930s show the shipyards and their surrounding communities alongside coal staithes and other quays and docks. You can look at these photographs and many others using Historic England’s Aerial Photo Explorer.

Furness Shipbuilding Yard, Haverton Hill, Teesside, in 1932, with the ICI works in the background.

Northumberland Shipbuilding Company Ltd, Howdon, in 1933.

Palmers Shipbuilding Company Limited, Hebburn-on-Tyne, in 1935.

Shipyards on the River Tyne in 1935. Wallsend is on the left and Hebburn on the right, With Tynemouth in the background.

Palmers Hebburn Co. Shipbuilding Yard in 1936, with Hawthorne Leslie and Co. to the left and Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson on the far bank behind.

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