The former British Power Boat Co Ltd boatyard at Hythe, Hampshire

The former boatyard of the British Power Boat Co. Ltd. The company was formed 30 September 1927 to use R Kemp's Hythe Boatyard which Hubert-Scott Paine had purchased in the same year. The British Power Boat Company became a limited liability company in June 1938 and was liquidated in 1947. In 1989 the site was occupied by Dreamland Electric Blanket Company. The photographer is looking over two corrugated asbestos and glazed roofs to a large double pitched corrugated asbestos roofed building with a line of rooflights. Attached to the side of this building is a single pitch corrugated asbestos roofed building with a glazed side to it. A large quantity of scaffolding trestles are stacked against one end of the main building.

Object Details

ID: N61811
Type: Roll film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Studio, National Maritime Museum Photographic
Date made: 6 April 1989
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 62 mm x 76 mm