Tag Archives: Ships photographs

Improving access to our shipbuilding collections

Collections & Objects   Collections Management   Discovery Museum   Local History   Maritime History   Social History   The Archives   World War 1
Posted by administrator on June 19, 2017     Permalink     Comments (1)

The shipbuilding collections at Tyne & Wear Archives are widely recognised to be of outstanding historical significance. They have attracted international research interest and back in 2013 were given official recognition through their addition to the UK Memory of the… Read more

Recent discoveries and challenges on the Sunderland Shipbuilding Archives Project

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Posted by administrator on August 30, 2012     Permalink     Comments (38)

For the past month I’ve been busy cataloguing the ships photographs of several Sunderland shipyards, including those for Sir James Laing & Sons Ltd and J.L. Thompson & Sons Ltd. There are thousands of fantastic images of ships launches and… Read more

An interesting example of collaboration between Tyne and Wear

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Posted by administrator on July 31, 2012     Permalink     Leave a comment

It’s been another rewarding month on the Sunderland Shipbuilding Archives Project. I’ve been working on the records of William Doxford & Sons Ltd and have now largely completed the cataloguing of the firm’s operational and publicity records. These include some… Read more