Hawthorns & Co. Ltd, Shipbuilders, Great Junction St

Category

Library Item

Item no

5346

Title

Hawthorns & Co. Ltd, shipbuilders, engineers, and boilermakers, Great Junction Street

Artist / maker

Inglis, Francis Caird

Date

1915

Size

24 x 29.9 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Hawthorn & Co. were originally a Newcastle-upon-Tyne firm manufacturing locomotives. In 1860, with a base in Leith they started making marine engines and boilers. In 1912, the company acquired the shipyard of Thomas Morton & Co which was situated on the site occupied today in Leith by Ocean Terminal. In 1924, Henry Robb Ltd. took over the shipyard of Hawthorns and the adjacent Ramage & Ferguson. Shipbuilding ended in Leith with the closure of Henry Robb's yard in 1984. Find out more about Leith shipbuilding legacy from the Leith Shipyards website and recollections of workers on Edinphoto.

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Hawthorns & Co. Ltd, shipbuilders, Great Junction St