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150 photos and 4 illustrations tagged beam, from 8 members of Flickr Commons.

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• industrialheritage
• unitedkingdom
• structure
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• northeastofengland
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• newcastleupontyne
• maritimeheritage
• shipbuilding
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• North East Museums 144 photos & illustrations
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• National Library of Medicine 2 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• U.S. National Archives 1 photo / illustration
• State Library of Queensland 1 photo / illustration
• Smithsonian Institution 1 photo / illustration

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Bomb damage at Readhead's shipyard, South Shields, 1941

from North East Museums

• A.Davey said:

  Well, you can see the airmen posing by their warplanes, and you can see the bombers flying in formation, and you can see them dodging the flak to get to the target, but only photos such as this one make you realize what warfare does to us. Enormous losses of capital investments take place in the blink of an eye. Where do you even begin sorting out a ruin like this one?

• Ramon Meneses said:

  That's the question I was going to ask, "How do you recover from this tangled mess?"

Man cages manufactured by Vickers Armstrong

from North East Museums

• Tender & endangered Cow/Horse said:

  what does 'man cages' mean?

• Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums said:

  Hi, Man cages such as these were used to transport miners underground and raise them back up again. It's essentially serving as a lift.

• optimal chicken said:

  Yes. They made them in columns to move men more quickly in bigger groups - some mines employed over a thousand men below ground in any one working shift. The same would be done for transporting lots tubs full of coal to the surface.

Shervick Tractors at the Elswick Works

from North East Museums

• Outgoing Floor said:

  Amazing shot, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums))))

• Land Rover 61 said:

  Looks like the running gear from a Sherman tank; is that where the name comes from Sher(man)Vick(ers)?

• optimal chicken said:

  Nice one ^^. I bet it is!