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MIKE QUILLE recommends an exhibition of Chris Killip’s stunning images of shipbuilding on the Tyne and its ultimate demise
End of Shift. Given by the artist in honour of all the shipyard workers of Tyneside [© Chris Killip]

The Last Ships
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

 

THE LAST Ships exhibition of photographs taken by Chris Killip over just three years captures the awe-inspiring scale and beauty of the shipbuilding industry on Tyneside in the 1970s.

 

Tyne Pride from a back lane, Wallsend, 1975. Given by the artist in honour of all the shipyard workers of Tyneside, 2017 (© Chris Killip)
Wallsend Housing Looking East, 1975. Given by the artist in honour of all the shipyard workers of Tyneside, 2017 (© Chris Killip)
Shipyard workers looking at the Everett F Wells, Wallsend, 1977. Given by the artist in honour of all the shipyard workers of Tyneside, 2017
Tyne Pride at the end of the street, Wallsend. Given by the artist in honour of all the shipyard workers of Tyneside, 2017 (© Chris Killip)
Demolished housing, Wallsend, August 1977. Given by the artist in honour of all the shipyard workers of Tyneside, 2017 (© Chris Killip)
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