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 inside a large single storey building with windows on two sides. He is on the tiled ground floor looking towards a screen on which four electrical connection panels, two switch sockets, a power on/off switch and an electric bell are mounted. Behind this screen is a steel staircase up to the first floor. Piles of flat-pack cardboard boxes are on the right and a calendar is mounted on the end wall. A vertical format negative.

Object Details

ID: N61860
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: 78 mm x 62 mm