Corporate NA1751 Westwood, Baillie and Company; shipbuilders Westwood, Baillie and Company shipbuilders

Cubitt Town

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. 05/12/2002 MBH 13/06/2006 Staff International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 c553921a-7146-4284-8b0e-7c14f01d0051