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 this site was occupied by Dreamland Electric Blanket Company. The photographer is looking at part of the face of a large brick building. A wooden door is marked 'sprinkler pressure tank' and a cast iron sign on the wall reads 'Sprinkler stop valve inside'. Two men are laying cable in a shallow trench alongside the building and a portable soil tamping machine is laid down in the foreground. A vertical format negative.