MANCHESTER.- 30 years after the death of photographer Cecil Beaton, Imperial War Museum North is displaying some of his most iconic Second World War shipyard images in huge 5m high frames outside the Museum – on The Quays in Manchester. Beaton was best known for society portraits and fashion photography, working in Hollywood and for Vogue and Vanity Fair. His celebrity images include the likes of Audrey Hepburn and Mick Jagger. Yet he also worked as an official photographer for the Ministry of Information during the Second World War. Commissioned to record the work of northern shipyards, the resulting photographs are a striking combination of intimate portraits and dizzying views of the shipyard architecture. The series of six photographs gives a powerful insight into British shipbuilding industry during the Second World War. Highlights of the display include a female welder in Tyneside, standing proudly in front of an enormou