We are re-living South Tyneside’s shipbuilding industry in this selection of retro photos.
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?
5. 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 | SG
6. What a find
Joe Harding in Readhead’s Shipyard with the unnamed fish that was washed up in one of berths in 1975. Photo: Shields Gazette | SG
7. 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 | SG
8. In the workshop
The open plan workshop at Hebburn Centre of British Shipbuilders North East Training and Safety Co in 1983. Photo: Shields Gazette | SG