North East Museums

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North East Museums is a major regional museum, art gallery and archives service. We manage nine museums and galleries across Tyneside and the Archives for Tyne and Wear. Here, you can see just some of the photographs which are in our collections.

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Middle Docks and Engineering Company, South Shields, 1976

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  • Miocene said:
    Looks like one of the Leander frigates in dry dock.
  • jbryce1437 said:
    Pretty sure that is the Leander Class Frigate HMS Euryalus in dry dock. She did a short refit on the Tyne and was also the adopted ship of South Shields.
  • Wookie350 said:
    jbryce1437 No, she's definitely a Rothesay class but I can't make out the deck code to work out which one
  • fear uk said:
    Its HMS Yarmouth
  • fear uk said:
    she came in for repairs after collision off Iceland during "cod war".
    The other ships were BP Fern -no4 drydock, MV Penelope Everard, Shell hamble, and the drill ship Dalkieth.

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Hawthorn Leslie shipbuilders playing bowls

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  • optimal chicken said:
    So many memories.
    They remind me so much of the times when I was young. Their clothing, hair, shoes etc. Even the housing is the same.
    Behind green areas like this the heavy industry worked on.
    Social history is a wonderful thing to study.
  • Rachel Smith said:
    The man far left in the pale clothes is my grandfather Peter Ross Smith, he was manager of the shipyard when the Kelly was built and worked alongside Mountbatten. He received a signed letter of thanks and a signed photo from Mountbatten in 1939 (we still have them), and I have three of the flags that flew from the Kelly. He would have been approx 48 years old in that photo.

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