Heritage Reels: Shipbuilding

We Make Ships (1987)

A Siren Film & Video documentary for Channel Four in which Tom Pickard, poet and documentary filmmaker, returns to the shipyards in Sunderland for 6 months. During this period the Austin and Pickersgill yard experiences a financial crisis and two ships are launched onto the River Wear.

With All the Will in the World (2018)

In 1988, the last shipyard in Sunderland closes, ending 600 years of tradition. Thirty years later, amidst the biggest regeneration project in its history, a £133 million bridge is built in it's place. Has the city recovered and is there a future on the Wear? A reflection on history and hope as told by the shipbuilders themselves.

Speaker TBC