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? Take a look at our selection and then get in touch to tell us more.
5. What a find
Joe Harding in Redhead's Shipyard with the unnamed fish that was washed up in one of berths in 1975. | SG Photo: Shields Gazette
6. Back to 1958
Brigham and Cowans shipyard and the Tyne Dock Engineering Company pictured in May 1958. | SG Photo: Shields Gazette
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. | SG Photo: Shields Gazette
8. In the workshop
The open plan workshop at Hebburn Centre of British Shipbuilders North East Training and Safety Co in 1983. | SG Photo: Shields Gazette