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
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