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Middle Docks
The former Middle Docks were a complex of ship building and repair docks and dry docks in South Shields, where located between the larger Readhead's and Brigham's ship yards. Middle Docks were first documented in 1776, but there were earlier docks on the site. The docks expanded on the site of former salt pans. There were a number of owners over the years. In the mid-19th century two docks here were joined into one business as the Middle Dock Co.[1] Following the sale of the business, Middle Docks and Engineering Co. were registered on the 5th of February 1900. In 1961 the company employed 1,100 people and were recorded as engineers and repairers of hulls, machinery and boilers of all types of Naval and merchant shipping.[2] The Middle Docks were no longer used from the late 1990's.
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Derelict Ship Repair Yard and Dry Dock, Middle Docks, South Shields
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Middle Docks and Engineering Company, South Shields, 1976
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Middle Docks and Engineering Company, South Shields, 1962
Pinned by Simon Cotterill
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Tyne and Wear HER(2345): South Shields, Middle Docks
- "A ‘Mr Smith’s Dock’ is shown on a ‘Plan of the Low part of the Tyne’ in the late 1760s. The first mention by name of Middle Dock is from …
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Middle Docks and Engineering Co
- "of West Holborn, South Shields
1900 The company was registered on 5 February, to acquire the business of Mail, Macfarlane and Co and the undertaking of the Middle Docks Co. …
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Simon Cotterill
from Geograph (geograph)
Derelict Ship Repair Yard and Dry Dock, Middle Docks, South Shields
Pinned by Simon Cotterill
from TWAM (flickr)
Middle Docks and Engineering Company, South Shields, 1976
Pinned by Simon Cotterill
from TWAM (flickr)
Middle Docks and Engineering Company, South Shields, 1962
Pinned by Simon Cotterill
from http://twsitelines.info/SMR/2…
Tyne and Wear HER(2345): South Shields, Middle Docks
- "A ‘Mr Smith’s Dock’ is shown on a ‘Plan of the Low part of the Tyne’ in the late 1760s. The first mention by name of Middle Dock is from …
Added by
Simon Cotterill
from https://www.gracesguide.co.uk…
Middle Docks and Engineering Co
- "of West Holborn, South Shields
1900 The company was registered on 5 February, to acquire the business of Mail, Macfarlane and Co and the undertaking of the Middle Docks Co. …
Added by
Simon Cotterill
