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 at the front of a corrugated iron clad building in use as the Dreamland Electrical Appliances Ltd offices and works. The building has windows at two levels, an air conditioning trunking at the front and a large boiler flue projecting out of the corrugated asbestos pitched roof. A Renault 6 TL motor car KAA 481S and an Austin Metro 1.3 motor car C902 XCG are parked on the left. The jetty of the Hythe Marine Park is in the right background.

Object Details

ID: N61855
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