Strick's Serbistan, newly-delivered from John Readhead & Sons (ship 617), in July 1966. The red shed to the right of the picture is Harton High Staith, squeezed between Readhead's & Middle Docks. The loading point for hoppers carrying pit waste from Westoe/Harton/Whitburn colliery, it became the site of a car scrap yard and eventually disappeared under MacNulty’s down-river extension of the former Readhead yard. A short length of railway track crossing the adjacent roadway is all that remains of this part of the Harton Electric Railway.
Regards, Dennis.