Following last week’s release of an archive of previously unseen photos from John Laing projects, CM has published more images charting the contractor’s work over the past century.
The images have been digitised as part of a project between Historic England and the John Laing Charitable Trust, called Breaking New Ground.
View more images from the collection here.
View of the Barbican Arts Centre under construction in 1978. John Laing started in the early 1970s and completed the project in 1981
View of Jacob Epstein’s sculpture of the devil being hoisted into position at Coventry Cathedral (1961-62)
Roman Catholic priest speaking to an Irish worker on the construction site for the M1 motorway (1959)
Erection of boiler number six into its final position during the construction of Berkeley Nuclear Power Station (1958)
Construction of a terrace of houses for an exhibit at the Daily Mail exhibition (1948)
Preston Bus Station under construction (1969)
All images courtesy of the Historic England Archive and John Laing Photographic Collection.
