A Crane Driver? in Palmers Ship Yard Jarrow.

The two postcard pictures are from this web site
www.picturesofgateshead.co.uk/postcards



Below,these remarkable pictures of a bygone period of the River Tynes ship building days come to you from Norman Dunns web pages and with his kind permision.The term Crane Driver takes on a whole new meaning when we see these guys high up in their cabs,cables and wheels whizzing away,how times have changed!

Normans picture pages can be found at http://www.norman.dunn247.co.uk/




History:

Jarrow

This is the town that is famous for the 1930's "Hunger March" caused by the intense poverty that followed the closing of the Charles Palmer shipyard. The last of the surviving marchers, Cornelius Whalen died in 2003 at the age of 93...