January 28, 2010 Swan Hunters Cranes

This is a wider view of the Swan Hunter cranes looking across the river from Hebburn, what was the former Palmers yard across the Tyne to the Big yard at Wallsend.

Charles Palmer was a MP and a major local employer who set up the Palmer shipbuilding & Iron company which were major employers in Jarrow & Hebburn

You can read more about Charles Palmer & Palmer Shipbuilders at the following links :-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmers_Shipbuilding_and_Iron_Company_Limited

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Charles_Palmer,_1st_Baronet