Sujet

Coventry Cathedral, Priory Street, Coventry, 31/05/1955. Creator: John Laing plc.

Légende

A man digging in the pile cap trench on the construction site of Coventry Cathedral, with a stone coffin behind him protruding into the trench. This photograph was taken during an early phase of the construction of Coventry Cathedral which included demolition, site clearance, excavation and pile driving with the first foundations laid on Monday 7th March 1955.

Date

1955

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Notre référence

HRM21A84_079

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

78,0Mo (5,2Mo) / 44,5cm x 43,9cm / 5254 x 5188 (300dpi)

Mots clés

building England people male work job man men religious country religion construction site guy occupation British cathedral English church death Christianity building site location century cemetery graveyard Britain profession construction worker digging concept B&W coffin coffins macabre trench fifties west midlands 1950s Construction Industry black & white black and white B W 20th century Coventry Coventry Cathedral decade TGN working photograph Basil Spence Spence Basil Sir Basil Urwin Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc