Mick Hartley

Photographer Chris Killip's look at the last days of shipbuilding on the Tyne, from 1975-1977.

Wallsend, 1975 © Chris Killip

Wallsend Housing Looking East, 1975 © Chris Killip

End of Shift © Chris Killip

Tyne Pride from a back lane, Wallsend, 1975 © Chris Killip

Tyne Pride at the end of the street, Wallsend. 1975 © Chris Killip

Shipyard workers looking at the Everett F Wells, Wallsend, 1977 © Chris Killip

Demolished housing, Wallsend, August 1977 © Chris Killip

The Tyne Pride , built by Swan Hunter, was the biggest ship ever launched on Tyneside. It was scrapped 30 years later, in 2005. The Everett F Wells was completed in August 1977, and was the last super-tanker built on the Tyne.

More pictures of the Tyne Pride, by Peter Loud, here.

There's an exhibition of Chris Killip's photographs, The Last Ships, at Newcastle's Laing Gallery.

In Flagrante, previously. And Tyne Pride.