50 & 20 Years Ago
50 Years Ago: LTE Substation, Elephant & Castle
The comprehensive redevelopment of the Elephant and Castle is a part of the London County Council’s plan for the County. Very broadly, the redevelopment …
50 Years Ago: Structural Steelwork for the Motor Industry
Ford’s new Halewood plant In February 1960, Sir Patrick Hennessey, Chairman of the Ford Motor Company Limited, announced his company’s decision to …
50 Years Ago: Steelwork for 150-ft bridge is erected in one weekend
Four hundred tons of structural steelwork for a 150-ft.-long steel bridge over Birmingham’s Inner Ring Road were erected within 34 hours last autumn. The …
20 Years Ago: Applied QA in furnace reconstruction project
From STEEL CONSTRUCTION April 1992 Introduction A major new blast furnace re-construction project is currently under way at British Steel’s Port Talbot …
50 Years Ago: New Ascot Grandstand
Steelwork was used for the frame of the new Queen Elizabeth II Stand at Ascot, which was opened last June after a construction period of only ten months, …
50 Years Ago: The New Cambridge University Press
Low cost, high speed of erection and light weight were among the principal considerations which led to the choice of structural steelwork for the two large …
20 Years Ago: Quarry House (the new DH & DSS HQ) at Quarry Hill, Leeds
Described as a landmark building for the Quarry Hill area – which is being master planned by Terry Farrell – Quarry House includes 400,000 sq ft of office …
40 Years Ago: A ‘Grand Stand’ at Lords
Taken from Building with Steel, 1969 It was in 1814 that Mr T Lord leased the now famous ground to the Marylebone Cricket Club and the story of Cricket made …
50 years ago: Cable spinning for the Forth Road Bridge
Taken from Building With Steel, May 1962 On 17 November 1961 the first four wires of the cables on the new Forth Road Bridge were hauled over the tops of the …
20 years ago: Somalia
Taken from STEEL CONSTRUCTION February 1992 The plane from Addis Ababa to Djibouti settles onto the tarmac and taxis in two hours late, past an outgoing DC3. …
