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End of Shift. Given by the artist in honour of all the shipyard workers of Tyneside
[© Chris Killip]
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The Last Ships
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
THE LAST Ships exhibition of photographs taken by Chris Killip over just three years captures the awe-inspiring scale and beauty of the shipbuilding industry on Tyneside in the 1970s.
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