Volume: Miscellaneous Laing family, staff and company history material

Date:
1880 - 1995
Reference:
JLP01/20/014
Type:
Volume containing Photographic material
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Description

Box of 267 prints, slides and negatives in 12 packets, comprising:

- photocopies of building work photographs from the late 19th/early 20th centuries; - formal and informal portraits of Sir John Laing, Lady Beatrice Laing, Sir Kirby Laing and Sir Martin Laing, with views of them at social and business events, including views of Sir John and Lady Beatrice being presented to HRH the Queen Mother at Coryton Refinery in 1954 (before Sir John's knighthood); Sir Kirby at the opening of the Piper Hill estate in 1966; at a Hallowe'en party in 1969; with Yehudi Menuhin and Elisabeth Frink unveiling the sculpture 'Paternoster' in 1975; recieving honourary membership of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1975; and at his retirement dinner in 1980; - various prints showing identified and unidentified Laing officials and staff between the 1930s and 1960s.

A detailed list is available.

Content

This is part of the Series: JLP01/20 John Laing Photographic Collection Miscellaneous Prints Folders; within the Collection: JLP01 John Laing Photographic Collection

This Volume contains the following materials:
Photograph (Positive): 245
Photograph (Negative): 7
Contact Sheet: 15

Rights

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People & Organisations

Builder: Brown, John: John Laing And Son Ltd

Photographer

Photographer: Adams, Gladstone: Tassell (Carlisle) Limited

Photographer: Wrightson, Hay

Photographer

Photographer: Central Press Photos Limited

Photographer: Evening News

Photographer: Fayer

Photographer: Vaughan, Kay: Lafayette Limited

Photographer

Photographer: Glass, Douglas: Stewart Bale Limited, Liverpool