Building Airship Shed Cavendish Dock - 1910

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    Building Airship Shed Cavendish Dock. 1910. Cavendish Dock looking East. A large steel structure is under construction alongside the dock wall. This is the early stages in the building of the Airship shed which will be used for the construction of the airship HMA No. 1, known as Mayfly. Various cranes and lifting equipment on site, rowing boat moored to dock wall. Building to left with "Rainey Bros Contractors” painted on front. Various industrial buildings and tall chimneys probably the Vulcan Steel and Iron Works in the background. Image from the Sankey Family Photograph Collection (c/o Cumbria Archives), available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence. id 863, BDB 86/1/300. Sankey Family Photographic Archive © Cumbria Archives
  • Owner

    Sankey Family Photography Collection (Cumbria Archives)
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    Link: https://www.sankeyphotoarchive.uk/collection/view/?id=2161
    Resource type: Text/Website
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 2 hours, 21 minutes ago
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