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 at a flat roofed two/three storey brick building with an iron staircase up the side of it and a corrugated iron clad building adjoining it. On the left is another corrugated iron clad building with a sign on it reading 'electric blanket servicing unit' Steel cages, wooden pallets, cardboard boxes and flattened cardboard are in the yard. A vertical format negative.

Object Details

ID: N61830
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: 75 mm x 62 mm