On many furniture items there is often a circular plate attached thereto with the company name and address inscribed on it. The plate was made from celluloid, a cellular and camphor thermoplastic process, dating back to the 1860s. It was often [...]
The above photograph is a view of the Morpeth Arms pub taken in 2014. The pub is directly opposite where the Baltic Wharf site used to be. The tree on the left hand side of the picture is almost exactly where the centre gate entrance to the [...]
A photograph of the artist W B Wyllie who painted several shipbreaking scenes at the Castles Yards on the Thames.
The picture above, taken from our archives, shows the queue passing in front of the Castles head office building in 1936 in order to view the lying in state of George V in Westminster Hall. The distance involved was considerable and the [...]
A great deal has been written about Sidney N Castle in our eBook and the information therein regarding his life and times will be of interest to our readers. As is known Sidney and family lived in Kingston upon Thames for many years at his [...]
We have discovered more about the family of J B Garnham who figured prominently in the activities of Castles Shipbreaking during the early 1900s. Garnham assisted significantly with the continuation of shipbreaking activities by the Castle [...]
It is always interesting to visit the original sites of the Castles Shipbreaking companies over the years and to establish if they still exist in modern day London. The above photograph of the Baltic Wharf site was taken in September 2014 and [...]