By the late 20th century, the shipbuilding industry in Greenwich survived in a very minor way: lighters, barges, workboats and pleasure craft. This oil painting at first glance appears to show one such small vessel under construction. It is however divorced from an obvious shipyard context, and almost appears as a piece of abstract sculpture commemorating a largely vanished industry.The artist has also included the large East Greenwich gasholders, which at one stage were the largest of their kind in Europe as was the coal gas works then on the North Greenwich peninsula - all cleared away in the 1990s as a regeneration area, though one of the gasholders remains in use there. The painting is signed 'AC' by the artist (1921-2013), a well-known one for Thames views in particular who lived and worked in Greenwich until retiring to Cornwall. It was purchased with BHC1647 which shows the tug 'Agama' and another beached in the same area of waterfront.