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 concreted storage yard containing wooden pallets, steel storage racks containing scrap cardboard, a storage rack containing cardboard tubes, a large skip containing scrap cardboard and a large number of steel storage racks. in the background is a corrugated iron clad building under a double pitched roof with a side extension under a single pitched roof. The extension has a partially open roller shutter door and windows are along the side. A vertical format negative.
Object Details
ID: | N61850 |
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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: 77 mm x 62 mm |