Tyneside Industry - Dorman Long

Restored reproduction of an original advert included in the 1930 edition of the "The River Tyne Its Trade and Facilities".  Printed and published by Andrew Reid & Company Ltd. of Strawberry House, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Founded in 1875 in Middlesbrough by Arthur Dorman and Albert de Lande Long, Dorman Long grew from a modest ironworks into one of the largest steel producers and bridge builders in the British Empire.

By the 1920s, it had absorbed major firms like Bell Brothers and Bolckow Vaughan, becoming a vertically integrated steel giant. Dorman Long built legendary structures including the Sydney Harbour Bridge (1932), Tyne Bridge (1928), and Tees Newport Bridge (1934).

Nationalised in 1967, the company’s engineering arm later merged into Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Co. in 1990, but its legacy lives on in steel and stone.

Printed on high quality 230gsm matt archival paper.