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 concrete yard at a two storey concrete framed building with brick infill panels and casement windows, a corrugated iron gable end and a double pitch corrugated asbestos roof. On the left is a concrete post and wire mesh fence with two flag poles at the end and beyond is a two storey corrugated iron clad building with windows at high level. A vertical format negative.

Object Details

ID: N61848
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: 76 mm x 62 mm