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?
9. A giant waiting to be completed
Workers watch as the after section of the 112,000 ton Bibby Line tanker Yorkshire is launched. It would later go to Hebburn Shipbuilding Dock to be joined to the forepart which was being built there. Photo: Shields Gazette | SG
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