50 & 20 Years Ago
40 Years Ago: Football stand for 1966 World Cup Series
Taken from Building with Steel, 1965 The directors of Manchester United Football Club had for some time been thinking in terms of developing the north side of …
40 Years Ago: University of Liverpool
Taken from Building with Steel, 1967 The choice between steel and concrete frequently confronts both Architects and Engineers at the very earliest stage in …
40 Years Ago: Storing 63 million gallons of whisky
Taken from Building with Steel, 1965 The group of warehouses completed last year for the Distillers Company Limited at Menstrie, Clackmannanshire, was built …
S.G.H.W. prototype nuclear power station
Taken from Building with Steel, 1965 An interesting project at present under construction at the U.K.A.E.A. Experimental Reactor Establishment, Winfrith Heath, …
Bridge over the River Tagus
Taken from Building with Steel, 1965 The £50 million suspension bridge at present being built across the Tagus River at Lisbon is reputed to be one of the …
40 Years Ago: New Water Chute at Southend’s Kursaal
A landmark familiar to several …
40 Years Ago: Progress Report on the Severn Bridge
Taken from Building with Steel, 1965 …
40 Years Ago: Two interesting bridges
1. New Bridge over the River Calder in Huddersfield The £3 million scheme for the extension and modernisation of the Corporation of Huddersfield’s sewage …
40 Years Ago: Lanchester College of Technology
Taken from Building with Steel, 1965 The Lanchester College of Technology, Coventry, named after the famous local engineer and motor car designer, has …
40 Years Ago: The ‘Sunday Times’ builds in Steel
Taken from Building with Steel, 1965 In 1937 a steel frame building for the Daily Sketch was constructed in Gray’s Inn Road, London. It was erected only up …
