The shipyards of South Tyneside will hold many memories for people across the North East. Whether you worked in the offices or on the ships, the heyday of the shipyards affected so many workers.
Were you among them? What are your recollections of your time there?
Let’s see if these images from the Shields Gazette archives can jog your memory.
Let’s see if these images from the Shields Gazette archives can jog your memory.
5. On the banks of the Tyne
A 1973 view from Bill Quay looking across to the shipyards on the north bank at Walker. Photo: Shields Gazette
Back to 1970 and the 253,000-ton giant tanker Esso Hibernia at Wallsend Shipyard, and in the foreground the 22,940-ton liquefied gas carier Faraday at Hebburn Shipyard. Photo: Shields Gazette
Jarrow shipyard Palmers, Hebburn in the picture, showing a new forepart being built on to the British Railways steamer Duke of York which was severely damaged during a collision at Harwich. Photo: Shields Gazette