Tag Archives: Austin & Pickersgill Ltd

Remembering Sunderland’s ship launches

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Posted by administrator on June 4, 2014     Permalink     Comments (7)

Tyne & Wear Archives is delighted to present a new flickr set remembering Sunderland ship launches of the past 150 years. The set has been produced to celebrate Sunderland History Fair, which will be held at the Seaburn Centre, Sunderland on… Read more

Remembering the shipyard workers

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Posted by administrator on December 9, 2013     Permalink     Comments (2)

An earlier blog contained several images of the ship ‘Northern Star’ including an unusual one of workers preparing the slipway for the launch.  It reminded me of how rare and precious such images are. The Archives cares for tens of thousands… Read more

Interesting personnel records uncovered by the Sunderland Shipbuilding Archives project

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Posted by administrator on April 23, 2012     Permalink     Comments (60)

During the past month I’ve been cataloguing the administrative records of Austin & Pickersgill Ltd and its two predecessor companies, S.P. Austin & Son Ltd and William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd. These include an interesting set of personnel records, which… Read more

A repossession and other discoveries from the Sunderland Shipbuilding Archives project

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Posted by administrator on March 27, 2012     Permalink     Comments (13)

Work on the project has been progressing smoothly for the past month. Colin has now completed the cataloguing of the Bartram & Sons ships plans we hold and has started work on the plans of the Sunderland shipbuilding firm of… Read more

Recently discovered photograph albums of Austin and Pickersgill ships

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Posted by administrator on August 16, 2011     Permalink     Comments (18)

The two most popular types of shipbuilding records held by the Archives are without doubt ships plans and photographs. I was therefore very excited in early August when I discovered a series of photograph albums of twenty one ships built… Read more