EAW008935 ENGLAND (1947). The Middle Docks & Engineering Company Ltd Ship Repair Yard at Middle Docks and environs, South Shields, 1947. This image was marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing.

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Details

Title [EAW008935] The Middle Docks & Engineering Company Ltd Ship Repair Yard at Middle Docks and environs, South Shields, 1947. This image was marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing.
Reference EAW008935
Date 9-August-1947
Link
Place name SOUTH SHIELDS
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 435718, 566735
Longitude / Latitude -1.4416601988085, 54.993842266007
National Grid Reference NZ357667

Pins

Approx location of a 2ndWW barrage balloon operating site, e25704.

redmist
Thursday 23rd of November 2023 04:35:57 PM
Location of a 2ndWW barrage balloon operating site, still has its vehicle platform, the bases of two Nissen huts and possibly two underground air raid shelters.

redmist
Thursday 23rd of November 2023 04:31:00 PM
Saint Hilda's Church overlooking the Market Place on its north side.

N Dunn
Saturday 25th of January 2020 05:31:38 PM
South Shields Railway Station

N Dunn
Saturday 25th of January 2020 05:27:15 PM
This small pier is called 'The Groyne'

N Dunn
Saturday 25th of January 2020 05:25:41 PM

N Dunn
Saturday 25th of January 2020 05:23:51 PM
The original Town Hall in the Market Place

N Dunn
Saturday 25th of January 2020 05:22:57 PM
Station Road, South Shields

N Dunn
Saturday 25th of January 2020 05:21:23 PM
Coronation St,

N Dunn
Saturday 25th of January 2020 05:19:49 PM
The Customs House which these days is used entertainment eg Pantos, Shows, Films

N Dunn
Saturday 25th of January 2020 05:08:14 PM
The old Hilda Pit which is long gone

N Dunn
Saturday 25th of January 2020 04:39:20 PM
Market Place in South Shields

N Dunn
Saturday 25th of January 2020 04:36:33 PM
Southern Harvester. The photo is from http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3BHHSLbCSrFNZBT4Scxrxpf/a-glimpse-into-the-world-of-british-whaling-in-the-1950s

Kevin O'Hare
Monday 2nd of November 2015 01:29:40 AM
Whale Factory Ship, plus another in dry dock and also whale oil tanker. British push into whale hunting after the war with new builds and conversions.

Louis
Tuesday 12th of August 2014 08:26:30 PM
This is Southern Venturer (15,300-ton), which was, like Southern Harvester, its sister ship also shown here, a whaling factory ship owned by Leith-based Christian Salvesen. In the 1950s they worked in the South Atlantic and used to be annual visitors to the Tyne, for overhaul at Middle Docks in Shields. The Southern Venturer was broken up in the mid-1960s, and the Southern Harvester in 1971. You can make out their names on the sterns, above the ramps used to take on the whales.

Kevin O'Hare
Monday 2nd of November 2015 01:24:43 AM