Last Days of the Walker Shipyards

I remember these days, giddy with life and full of anticipation. There were so very many of these huge ships launched from the Tyne and the Wear, but they were always somehow a great occasion. The rumbles and groanings deep in the dock as the chains were loosed and these behemoths slid indecently quickly into the River.

Ian Bertram was there with his black and white film camera to catch the first days of the Everett F Wells, and the last days of these giant launches at Walker. He is at last making available a series of these important photographs on his Etsy site. Go and buy one.

And sometime soon, it’ll be time to upload a few glimpses of a series of one-off fibre-based darkroom prints of the crumbling dry docks in the summer of 2008, before the developers got going with their bulldozers and their plans for more ticky-tacky boxes along an extended gentrified Quayside. I only have about a half dozen, and they will only be available for a very short time. Watch this space.

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