And we hope the pictures from the Shields Gazette archives bring back lots of memories.
Are you pictured at Readheads, the training school at Hebburn or Hawthorn Leslie?
What are your memories of working in the yards? Take a look at our selection and then get in touch to tell us more.
5. At the double
A 1970 photo showing the 253,000-ton giant tanker Esso Hibernia at Wallsend Shipyard, and in the foreground the 22,940-ton liquefied gas carrier Faraday at Hebburn Shipyard. Photo: Shields Gazette
6. What a find at Readheads
Joe Harding in Redhead's Shipyard with the unnamed fish that was washed up in one of berths in 1975. Photo: sg
7. Top trainees in 1985
The Hebburn Hi-Tech team of the British Shipbuilding Training Centre won the Youth Trainees of the Year competition. Can you spot someone you know? Photo: Shields Gazette
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An old duplex centre - beam steam engine in the final stages of renovation at British Shipbuilders' training school at Hebburn in 1981. Photo: sg