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Tag Archives: Sunderland shipbuilding
Bringing the North East’s engineering heritage back home
I’m pleased to report that the ‘We Mak’em’ Sunderland Shipbuilding archives project is complete. The Sunderland shipyard records we held at the start of the project in June 2011 have all been catalogued. The nine shipyards covered by the project… Read more
Model Visitors
I met a lovely couple the other week. They’d phoned to make an appointment and then travelled up from Down South especially to see one of our ship models, the ss Newton Ash. We have over 600 ship models in our collection… Read more
Recent discoveries and challenges on the Sunderland Shipbuilding Archives Project
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
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
Exciting new additions to our Sunderland shipbuilding collections
I’m happy to report that work is continuing well on the ‘We Mak’em’ Shipbuilding Archives project. The records of the firm Bartram & Sons Ltd are now fully catalogued (TWAM ref. DS.BM) and can be searched using our online catalogue.… Read more