Gateshead, Engine and Shipbuilding Yard (Victoria Works)

HER Number:
3517

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, Engine and Shipbuilding Yard (Victoria Works)

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Maritime

Site Type: Broad:
Marine Construction Site

Site Type: Specific:
Shipyard

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Engine and Shipbuilding Yard. Presumably this is the engineering firm of Clarke Chapman, who started at South Shore in the 1860s under William Clarke, an engineer who had worked for Armstrong at Elswick. New premises were taken on St James' Road in 1874 (HER 4360) and Captain William Chapman joined the firm, followed by C.A. Parsons three years later {2}. The works concentrated on making winches, later boilers and electricity generating plants. Clarke Chapman's later claimed to be the biggest assembly works in Europe. In 1970 Clarke Chapm,an Ltd merged with John Thomson of Wolverhampton {3}.

Easting:
2655

Northing:
6377

Grid Reference:
NZ26556377

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 3517 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 3; I.C. Carlton, 1974, A Short History of Gateshead, p 84