Sunderland River....Select a picture to enlarge

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Outside the joiners shop of JL Thompson's Shipyard around 1945 / 48. From the left Morris Eastern, Alf Redford , Ray Hunter, Geordie Fenwick (SHIP FOREMAN) , not known, Billy Boyd, Ernie Riddle, (HEAD FOREMAN), Jimmy Wake, Alf Marlborough, Billy Elliot, Jack Chapman, Marvo (nick name), Geordie Duggan , not known. J L Thompson was the biggest yard on the wear and built the biggest ships. If you stood on Wearmouth Bridge and looked east down the river it was on the left. Photograph and caption from Alf Redford

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Joiners Shop, J L Thompson's Shipyard Sitting, Alf Redford, Standing from the left, Alec Mackie, not known, Dickie Knowles, Terry Hogan. J L THOMPSONS SHIPYARD was where the Glass Centre is now, It had 3 or 4 berths where the ships were built, then they went to Manor Quay for fitting out. The photo shows us sitting on the 2nd floor balcony of the joiners shop at the Manor Quay with a ship in the back ground at Dickensons Quay where the big crane had lifted in the ships engine, you can see Wearmouth Bridge in the background. (1945 / 46) Photograph and caption from Alf Redford

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Beautiful shot of the quayside at Sunderland by Alistair Kirk. Large files of this and other photographs by Alistair can be accessed at http://www.panoramio.com/photo/12035557

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Sunderland's ferry in 1934.

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Laing's Shipyard, Sunderland, before 1908