Tyneside Shipyards 1943, Photgraphs by Cecil Beaton, Imperial War Museum North
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12/06/2010 - 30/06/2012
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Tyneside Shipyards 1943, Photgraphs by Cecil Beaton
IWM North - External spaces
30 years after the death of photographer Cecil Beaton, Imperial War Museum North is displaying some of his most iconic Second World War shipyard images in huge 5m high frames outside the Museum - on The Quays in Manchester.
The series of six photographs gives a powerful insight into British shipbuilding industry during the Second World War. Highlights of the display include a female welder in Tyneside, standing proudly in front of an enormous, half built vessel. Alongside two imposing images of ships under construction is the evocative photograph of a young boy, hard at work with ripped clothes and a face blackened by dirt.
Beaton's images will be displayed in unique, large scale frames in front of Imperial War Museum North, at The Quays on the Manchester Ship Canal. Although no longer a working port, in the Second World War, the Quays, then the Port of Manchester, was a busy hub for merchant ships bringing in their vital cargoes from overseas.