RMS Olympic building and Launch

[clavel9]

Thanks so much for posting this: I'd seen quite a bit of it before but it's so well cut together and the music and sounds really help bring it to life. I spend six months a year working on Queen's Island and pass by the old H&W yards every morning. What a sight it must have been back then.

Indeed Brian

The fitting out basin is still in use...that's where they used to add the machinery, funnels and winglets

Actually, the Thompson Dock hasn't been in use for many years now, although I saw a screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey in it during the Belfast Film Festival last autumn!

[TSR2]

I think it must have been the same for anyone growing up in the vicinity of a big shipyard or aircraft factory. I remember Seillean being built at Harlands for BP in the late 80's. It was an incredible sight. Having been to the discovery museum in Newcastle, i got a real sense of the same sort of feelings on Tyneside as the yards here turned out some fantastic ships. Shorts did build anything as big when i was a kid, but i remember the likes of tge Tucano and 360 /330 / sherpa doing test circuits over our house and it was great. As a kid I always wanted my dad to take a transfer over to England to be near an RAF fighter station. Oh to be a kid then