The ferry Thomas Richardson pictured leaving North Shields (card is undated). I know she was built in 1906 but when did she retire?

U A RITSON and THOMAS RICHARDSON arrived from Falmouth on the 31st July 1906 and featured Screw Propulsion and Steel Hulls!!

A first for the TIC.

The Service on the Market Place Route started on Saturday 4th August 1906.
Dim 91.6' x 23.1' x 10.9'.
34 Tons Net. 179 Gross.

Both were sold to Grahamsleys Ltd of Newcastle in July 1930 for £350 each when the NORTHUMBRIAN arrived.

Thanks Paul,
A google on Grahamsleys Ltd turns up nothing, were they breakers?

Quite a short life 1906 to 1930 unless they were mis-used. However neither the name nor the ON continue after 1930. So either broken up or sold overseas (I would think). But Paul will know.

Unfortunatly it is all I know Dave.

Thought the 1932 MNL might help but its the one that's missing.........

Grahamsleys is a strange name and may not be spelt correctly. However the price of £350 each may be an indication of the condition of the vessels.

There is a Grahamsley Street in Gateshead so the spelling seems right.

Interesting.........

I'm assuming that they were built by Silley, Cox & Co. Ltd, Falmouth.

Unless there were other Falmouth Shipbuilders????????????????????????

Miramar say YES.....

Yard Number 116.

GRAHAMSLEYS Limited.
The Companies Act, 1948.
Special Resolution, passed 6th January, 1951.
AT an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of the above named Company, duly convened
pursuant to the provisions of section 278 (1) (£0 of the Companies Act, 1948, and held: at
15 Cauldwell Close, Monkseaton, on the 6th day of January 1951, the following Special Resolution, was
duly passed: —
" That the Company be wound up voluntarily and that Frederick Errington Proom, Chartered
Accountant, be and he is hereby appointed Liquidator for the purpose of such winding-up."
(016) W. E. BRITTON, Chairman.

(188)
GRAHAMSLEYS Limited.
NOTICE is hereby given that the creditors of the above named Company, which is being voluntarily
Wound up, are required, on or before the 10th day of February, 1951, to send in their full Christian and
surnames, their addresses and descriptions, full particulars of their debts or claims, and the names and
addresses of their Solicitors (if any), to the undersigned Frederick Errington Proom of 2 Saville Place,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1, the Liquidator of the said Company, and, if so required by notice in writing
from the said Liquidator, are, personally or by their Solicitors, to come in and prove their debts or claims
at such time and place as shall be specified in such notice, or in default thereof they will be excluded
from the benefit of any distribution made before suchdebts are proved.—Dated 19th day of January, 1951.
FRED. E. PROOM, Liquidator.
NOTE.—This notice is merely formal as all creditors have been or will be paid in full.
(095)

GRAHAMSLEYS Limited.
NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to section 290 of the Companies Act 1948, a Meeting of the
Members of the Company will be held at 2 Saville Place, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1, on Wednesday the
21st day of March, 1951, at 12 noon, for the purpose of receiving an account of the Liquidator showing
the manner in which the winding-up has been conducted and the property of the Company disposed
of and of hearing any explanation which may be eiven by the Liquidator.—Dated this 20th day
of February, 1951.
(095) FRED E. GROOM, Liquidator.

Pity none of the Notices give the Nature of the Business. But it proves they existed!

PAYDIRT!!!!!

They were Scrap Dealers.

For the next few months, the cars continued to move under their own power in the depot. The remaining trams including the workscar were offered for sale and were eventually acquired for scrap by Grahamsleys of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in March 1934. The Council refused to allow the firm to sell any of the bodies locally, which delayed their removal. The depot was finally cleared on 3 December 1934 after the bulk of the bodies had been sold to a dealer in North Wales who then resold them individually at £5 a saloon, many still surviving today. Some bodies from cars 1-40 were retained by the Corporation for conversion to bus shelters.

Well done that man.