Remember When: The River Tyne at South Shields - then and now

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    Chronicle Live, 7 May 2014, By David Morton. "...What was once a busy dry dock on a River Tyne thriving with shipbuilding and ship repair work is today the site for fashionable apartments with fine views of a much quieter river. Our main image shows Brigham & Cowan’s at South Shields, where the grain carrier Ixia was undergoing a refit in the newly opened 218m (715ft) long dry dock in the mid-1950s...."
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    Link: http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/remember-when-river-tyne-south-7077469
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    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 7 years, 10 months ago
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