Cooks
Another birds’ eye view of Cook’s Shipyard, this one is dated 1951. In the wet dock is one of James W. Cooks Bulk Oil ships in for repairs. It was an earlier visit by one of these to the upriver drydock that made the firm aware of James Husk’s vacant shipyard in Wivenhoe. On the slipway from the big building shed is one of the many barges that were built for the J.W. Cook’s group of companies during their early days at Wivenhoe. On the reclaimed mud peeping out from behind the big shed are two of the pontoons that were built for the 1951 Festival of Britain. These pontoons were for the London County Council, and were the yard’s first order from outside the J. W. Cook group.
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