History of Armstrong's Low Walker Yard
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Description
The Low Walker yard has a long history going back as far as William Reay 1831 - 1842, John Coutts 1842 - 1848, Thomas Seymour 1848 - 1852 and Charles Mitchell 1853 - 1882. William Armstrong who owned an armaments factory at Elswick wanted to enter the warship market, as a way of promoting his large caliber guns. However he was unable to build ships at Elswick because of a low multi arch bridge across the Tyne at Newcastle. Therefore in 1867 Armstrong entered into an agreement with Charles Mitchell who had a shipyard at Low Walker whereby the Mitchell company would build hulls for the Armstrong warships. This agreement was so successful that in 1882 the two companies merged to form Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd. In 1876 the low multi arch bridge at Newcastle that had stood since Georgean times was replaced by a new Armstrong designed swing bridge thus removing a major problem for the Elswick works. In 1883 the new Armstrong, Mitchell company decided to build a new shipyard specialising in warship production, next to the armaments works at Elwick. Their Low Walker yard was then able to concentrate on merchant shipbuilding, especially of tankers from 1885 onwards..... -
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Link: https://www.tynebuiltships.co.uk/Armstrong-Yard-LW.html
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