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 this site was occupied by Dreamland Electric Blanket Company. The photographer is looking across a tarmac yard to a flat roofed two/three storey brick building with an iron staircase leading up to the second storey roof. Corrugated iron clad buildings adjoin the brick building. Steel cages, planks of wood and piles of cardboard boxes are scattered about the yard which has a large puddle in the foreground.

Object Details

ID: N61828
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