Bronze Age Gold from Wales

M.V. HOUSTON CITY, photograph

W. Haig Parry (Photographer)

Launch party of the M.V. HOUSTON CITY at Furness shipyard Co. Ltd., Haverton Hill-on-Tees, 29 November 1933, by Mrs Henry Mercer. The photograph shows Mr & Mrs Henry Mercer at centre with their two daughters in front of them. On Mrs Mercer's right are Gertrude Popham, Arthur Popham and Alan Reardon Smith (Sir W. Reardon Smith's grandson) Photographers stamp bottom right. The vessel got stuck on the slipway, and was floated off on the next high tide.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

2008.111/75

Historical Associations

Associated Person/Body: Reardon Smith Line
Association Type: Shipping company
Date: 1933

Creation/Production

Role: Photographer
Period: 29/11/1933

Acquisition

donation, 19/11/2008

Measurements

Length (mm): 271
Width (mm): 364

Techniques

Black and white (monochrome photograph)
Photograph

Material

Paper
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