Looking east towards the North Sea is ICI Billingham. Just above the cooling towers, is the Furness Shipyard at Haverton Hill, note the ship ready to launch. In the middle distance is ICI North Tees Works.
Photo by John W Chesney, supplied courtesy of Joyce Chesney
The ship has been launched and is in the fitting out dock…Laings is out of the picture further to the left.
Colin you beat me to it, the ship is sitting in what was called the basin, I worked at the yard from 74-78 as a ships pipe-fitter
I served my time there as a shipwright and was there until the end of shipbuilding in 1979.
What a fantastic aerial view of my loved Teeside and so many memories that are personal to me, but mean so much. Our first secondhand car which cost £45 and made it possible to see England. Our first run from Norton to Redcar, the sand dunes and the pleasure of my own dog Juno who could smell the sea from a mile away and the good times we had together with that little car.
ICI that provided my Father with work for 33 years and paid for our own house in Grantham Road, Norton where the houses today are as good as new. Not many area could say that today. Some estates have been built and knocked down through neglect in these “so called educated” times.
My father was Joe Kidd a friend of Fred and Ivy Moiser who both went to Oxbridge Lane School and served together in the first World War. My best wishes to Mrs Joyce Chesney for the wonderful photograph.
In the left distance is Laings Rig yard (the square plot of water).