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Joan Broadhurst, 195819 year old Joan Broadhurst who has bought her fathers business, Birgby Products Ltd. The firm does contract projection welding and presswork, mostly for the car industry
Esso NorthumbriaThe 250, 000 ton tanker SS Esso Northumbria, built on the Tyne at Swan Hunters Walsend leaves for her trials and handing over to the Esso Company at Lisbon, Portugal. 15th February 1970
The ESSO NorthumbriaSwan Hunter shipyard - where the biggest tanker is being built called the ESSO Northumbria. April 1969
Children playing in the shadow of the giant 253, 000-ton oil tanker Esso Northumbria which is being built at the end of their street in Wallsend. April 1969
The Esso Northumbria supertanker being built at Swan Hunter shipyard in Wallsend. Circa April 1969
Clayton Wheeler, veteran diary farmer, aged 72 years old, from Cross Roads farm, Cricklade, Wiltshire, Friday 21st December 1962
RMS Olympic at SouthamptonWhite Star Line liner RMS Olympic, sistership of the ill fated Titanic seen here having her funnels painted during her yearly refit at Southampton docks circa November 1932
RMS Olympic 1936A glimpse of the River Tyne from the decks of the RMS Olympic, which is rapidly being broken up at Messers Thomas W Ward Ltd in Jarrow. 23rd April 1936
Children playing in the shadow of the giant 253, 000-ton oil tanker Esso Northumbria, which is being built at the end of their street in Wallsend in April 1969