Visited with The Loon, Loons Lady, Mykal and friend (Dave? sorry).
Went for a quick explore, but were spooked by some old bat calling someone else
so made ourselves scarse to be on the safe side. then returned a few hours later with the Loon for a proper rumage about, and found a few nice finds. Including original pictures of ships and people at work in the drawing offices (will get the negs and pictures scanned up
soon enough.
found out that Hawthorne & leslie ALSO built steam locamotives, whcih would explain a few of the drawings I saw (boilers).
see here...R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company - Wikipedia
also found some pictures of ships (now scrapped in india) that were made here..
http://www.shipphotos.co.uk/sheets/hawthorn.htm
sorry XM I nicked your outside picture as I forgot to take one (AGAIN getting real bad at not taking exterior pics).
the storerooms.
looking back out of the storerooms.
whats left of one of the offices. full of artifacts in here, including quite a few photos of workers and ships built/refurbed here. and about a thousand takeaway tins.
found this bloke not sure who he is, but I intend to find out.
the loon vibrating around a bit.
the now infamous mini excersise bike.
overview of the main warehouse, theres another next door, but the security hut looks right into it, so maybe a tad difficult.
found at the back, maybe half a dozen coils of this ship's rope.
'Dogs' LOL
more of the piked out mess (years and years old)
again at the back of the wharehouse in the dim gloom.
one of two courtyards, this one I took a few pics of the biggest web of drainage pipes you've ever seen, however my camera appears to have deleted the good ones :crazy
A look over the river at Swan Hunters shipyard (in wallsend) being stripped down with gas axe's, that big red crane on the left is currently been targetted by a load of poles, whilst th red one at the back is half way down already and being shipped over to india
by the time the sun is up again on swan hunters more of it will be gone. its very sad, wish I could have been here 20yrs back when this part of the time would have probably had 15-20 different ships been built in it.
As we left some chavs on the other side of the river were busy burning some remains of a shipyard that was JUST to the west of swanhunters, its 3 drydocks are pretty nackered.
AS I said earlier, I will get the pictures of past ships/workers posted up, keeping it alive
more pictures here...
Photobucket | The safer way to store your photos
Went for a quick explore, but were spooked by some old bat calling someone else
so made ourselves scarse to be on the safe side. then returned a few hours later with the Loon for a proper rumage about, and found a few nice finds. Including original pictures of ships and people at work in the drawing offices (will get the negs and pictures scanned up soon enough.found out that Hawthorne & leslie ALSO built steam locamotives, whcih would explain a few of the drawings I saw (boilers).
see here...R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company - Wikipedia
also found some pictures of ships (now scrapped in india) that were made here..
http://www.shipphotos.co.uk/sheets/hawthorn.htm
sorry XM I nicked your outside picture as I forgot to take one (AGAIN
getting real bad at not taking exterior pics).
the storerooms.
looking back out of the storerooms.
whats left of one of the offices. full of artifacts in here, including quite a few photos of workers and ships built/refurbed here. and about a thousand takeaway tins.
found this bloke
not sure who he is, but I intend to find out.
the loon vibrating around a bit.
the now infamous mini excersise bike.
overview of the main warehouse, theres another next door, but the security hut looks right into it, so maybe a tad difficult.
found at the back, maybe half a dozen coils of this ship's rope.
'Dogs' LOL
more of the piked out mess (years and years old)
again at the back of the wharehouse in the dim gloom.
one of two courtyards, this one I took a few pics of the biggest web of drainage pipes you've ever seen, however my camera appears to have deleted the good ones :crazy
A look over the river at Swan Hunters shipyard (in wallsend) being stripped down with gas axe's, that big red crane on the left is currently been targetted by a load of poles, whilst th red one at the back is half way down already and being shipped over to india
by the time the sun is up again on swan hunters more of it will be gone. its very sad, wish I could have been here 20yrs back when this part of the time would have probably had 15-20 different ships been built in it.
As we left some chavs on the other side of the river were busy burning some remains of a shipyard that was JUST to the west of swanhunters, its 3 drydocks are pretty nackered.
AS I said earlier, I will get the pictures of past ships/workers posted up, keeping it alive
more pictures here...
Photobucket | The safer way to store your photos
and about 20 filters for various other masks.
