SOUTER

Looks like the old Viscount Ridley dredger and also Wear Hopper 36 (above Souters funnel) which was converted to a bouy maintainance barge, behind 36 is where the main slipway of JL's was to be situated.
Regards, Steve.

Very atmospheric. How that has changed over the years!

the old souter when we lived in monkwearmouth this tug was my faverite i never dreamed when i was a kidd that one day i would take to the tyne for scrap but i did take her lifeboat light and after allmost 50 years of sailing 3 marigages and 14 homes i still have the light above my fireplace and they say crime never pays [shhh]