Construction Site Gallery

Forth Bridge

Construction of the Forth Bridge, on the Firth of Forth at Queensferry in Lothian, 23rd June 1888. The steel cantilever construction was designed by John Fowler and Benjamin Baker to carry a double-track railway line and a road over the river. When it was completed in 1890 it was the longest bridge of its kind. (Photo by Alex Inglis/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Hangar support column JLP01_08_084165

HEATHROW AIRPORT, B E A SERVICING HANGAR, HEATHROW, HILLINGDON, GREATER LONDON. A steel octagonal column being lowered by a crane into a shaft, part of the construction of foundations for the BEA aircraft servicing hangar at Heathrow Airport.
In October 1969 Laing announced that its Industrial Engineering Branch had been awarded a contract for construction of an aircraft servicing hangar for British European Airways at Heathrow Airport. It was the company's second major contract at Heathrow, following the completion of the BEA and BOAC cargo terminal. The hangar was designed to accommodate new airbus jets and existing aircraft. For the foundations, four 75ft shafts were sunk, the lower sections of which were filled with concrete before octagonal columns, each with a diameter of 8ft, were lowered into the shafts. The remainder was then filled with concrete, and the roof was eventually supported by the columns. Braithwaite engineers manufactured the steelwork for the columns and roof; C V Buchan sank the shafts

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Women from the edges of Zambeze waving huts and in the foreground, children's play

LSE4325717 Women from the edges of Zambeze waving huts and in the foreground, children's play. Engravure to illustrate Dr. Livingstone's first voyages to Southern Africa from 1840 to 1856, in "Le tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages" published under the direction of Edouard Charton, 1866, Paris. Selva Collection. by Unknown Artist, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Women from the edges of Zambeze waving huts and in the foreground, children's play. Engravure to illustrate Dr. Livingstone's first voyages to Southern Africa from 1840 to 1856, in "Le tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages" published under the direction of Edouard Charton, 1866, Paris. Selva Collection.); Photo A© Leonard de Selva; out of copyright

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