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 from a roadway at two corrugated iron clad buildings with large sliding doors under high pitched corrugated asbestos roofs. Wire storage cages and wooden pallets loaded with plastic crates are outside the doors. A two storey brick building under a shallow pitched corrugated asbestos roof is on the left.

Object Details

ID: N61842
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 73 mm