NELH Tuesday Meeting. The Closure of Sunderland’s Shipyards: The Inside Story with Bob Clay and Martin Spence
ZoomIn December 1988 Sunderland’s shipyards closed despite a long and passionate campaign to save them, and 800 years of shipbuilding on the Wear came to an end. Yet this closure has always looked bizarre. Why were these sophisticated modern yards, representing millions of pounds of public investment, written off? Why did the Tory Government sideline […]