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 an open concrete yard in which there is a mini roundabout marker with a 'Give Way' sign on it and indicating a 10 MPH speed limit. On one side of the yard is a large single storey brick building numbered 13, with roller shutter doors at each end of nine corrugated iron sliding doors, all under double pitched asbestos roofs. A Portakabin is in use as the Traffic Office.
Object Details
ID: | N61853 |
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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: 62 mm x 78 mm |