Volume: Miscellaneous 1970s projects, including Degremont-Laing water works
- Date:
- 1970 - 1977
- Reference:
- JLP01/20/009
- Type:
- Volume containing Photographic material
Box of 19 packets, comprising 408 prints. Contents date from the 1970s and show:
- recreational and retail projects, including Whipsnade Zoo Dolphin Exhibit; Newtownabbey, Woking, Bletchley and Keynsham Chew Park leisure centres; Windermere boating complex; Stockton, Exeter Guildhall, Brentwood, Letchworth, Rochdale Market, and Burton on Trent shopping centre developments (including the casting and unveiling of a statue at Burton); Livery House (Birmingham), 16 Cathedral Road (Cardiff), Whitefriars (Bristol), and Capitol House (Winchmore Hill) office buildings; the refurbishment of Queen's College Chambers in Birmingham and the construction of Duchess Place tower block in Edgbaston; - water treatment works projects by Degremont-Laing, including plants at Christchurch, Iver, Barnhurst, Gwent, North Walsham, High Oaks, Wing, Kidlington, Prewley, Corsehouse, Etton, Cwmtillery, Loch Bradan, and Bretton; - other industrial projects at Ratcliffe upon Soar power station, Unilever Merseyside and British Steel Rotherham.
A detailed list is available.
This is part of the Series: JLP01/20 John Laing Photographic Collection Miscellaneous Prints Folders; within the Collection: JLP01 John Laing Photographic Collection
Contact Historic England Archive
Builder: John Laing And Son Ltd
Architect: Stuart, Leslie: Shanks And Leighton Partnership
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