50 & 20 Years Ago
40 Years Ago: Moving along with Steel
Taken from Building with Steel, 1966 Britain’s first holiday camp monorail Steelwork, 320 tons of it, is used in Britain’s first monorail at Butlin’s …
40 Years Ago: New trends in architectural design
Taken from Building with Steel, 1966 Growing use of exposed steelwork — Sevenoaks General Hospital The £250,000 two storey building housing the new …
40 Years Ago – Steelwork on the Motorways
Taken fron Building with Steel, 1966 The Pennine Tower Restaurant, Forton – M6 The main area of the new Forton Service Area on the M6 consists of a two …
Strictly for the birds
Taken from Building with Steel, 1966 An aviary in the United States has been created using structural steel members. The Great Flight Cage at the National Zoo, …
40 Years Ago: A restaurant in Hyde Park
Taken from Building with Steel, 1966 A new modern restaurant has been built in Hyde Park on the banks of the Serpentine. It opened in July last year (1965) in …
Structural steelwork and the North Sea operations
Taken from Building with Steel, 1966 The search which is being carried out at present in the North Sea, to find out whether the strata of the ocean bed will …
40 Years Ago: The adaptability of steelwork
Taken from Building with Steel, 1966 (a) Alteration to the Academy cinema, Oxford St., London The original 600-seat Academy cinema was built at street level …
40 Years Ago: Special steel dock for aircraft tail
Taken from Building with Steel, 1966 The huge steel framed hangar built to house VC10 jets of the British United Airways’ fleet was one of the major …
40 Years Ago: Developments at Gatwick Airport
Taken from Building with Steel, 1965 Although Gatwick had been granted an æro-drome licence in 1930 the Airport only began operating in 1936 after completion …
40 Years Ago – Bridge travels from Glasgow to London
Taken from Building with Steel, 1965 Motorists eagerly await the completion of the M1 Southern Extension which will give much greater significance to the …
