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 across a grass field 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 similar pair of buildings are on the right, partially hidden by gorse bushes. A vertical format negative.

Object Details

ID: N61812
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: 76 mm x 62 mm