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 and bushes area to a range of industrial buildings and a car park. A two storey brick building is on the left and beyond it is a relatively modern building of aluminium cladding. The remaining buildings are of corrugated iron construction under double pitched corrugated asbestos roofs. In front of the buildings are stacks of perforated steel fabrications.

Object Details

ID: N61815
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 79 mm