By the 1870s, the shipbuilding trade had disappeared from Bursledon and the main industry was arable agriculture, particularly the growing of strawberries.
It is housed in a rebuilt 130-year-old forge and machine shop that once served the shipbuilding trade.
In 1925 most of the workers were paid off, owing to a slump in the shipbuilding trade and it completely closed down in 1931.
As the Industrial Revolution arrived, the port provided the outlet for the thriving linen and shipbuilding trades.
The Narentine pirates started to improve their shipbuilding trades when the Arabs started to massively jeopardize the Eastern Roman Imperial waters.
This, plus a serious decline in the shipbuilding trade in Liverpool led to the firm's closing down in 1851.
Wolters was born into a Catholic family in Coesfeld, Germany on August 3, 1903, the son of an architect who had married the daughter of a master carpenter in the shipbuilding trade.
A shipbuilding trade also existed on the site until this was phased out temporarily in 1645.
Thomas III taught these sons the shipbuilding trade.
The town of Essex was once home to a prosperous shipbuilding trade.