| Description | Mortgage of London Yard, Cubitt Town, for securing £8,000 and several bills of exchange amounting together to £7,000; Joseph Westwood and Robert Baillie, shipbuilders, of Poplar, to James Campbell, shipbuilder, of Founders Court, City of London; 6 Nov 1862. |
| AdminHistory | In 1856-7 Robert Baillie, sub-contractors and managers at Ditchburn and Mare's shipyard at Orchard Place, Blackwall, for nearly 18 years, set up in business as shipbuilders, boilermakers and ironworkers, in partnership with James Campbell, in a new yard at Cubitt Town known as London Yard. Campbell retired in 1861. In common with many other local firms, Westwood, Baillie and Company had difficulty surviving the decline in Thames shipbuilding of the 1860s. However the firm survived until 1893 having concentrated mainly on civil engineering projects, in particular the construction of prefabricated iron and steel bridges for developing countries. |