Sujet

Berkeley Power Station, Berkeley, Ham and Stone, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 29/03/1957. Creator: John Laing plc.

Légende

Looking south-west over the temporary offices on the Berkeley Nuclear Power Station construction site, showing double-decker buses and cars in the foreground. Berkeley Nuclear Power Station was the first commercial nuclear power station in the United Kingdom and one of the first generation of nuclear reactors in Britain. Laing were the civil engineers for the project with work commencing on 7th January 1957. The 57 acre site included offices and temporary housing with facilities for the workers on site.

Date

1957

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Notre référence

HRM21A84_118

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

107,2Mo (2,8Mo) / 58,3cm x 46,0cm / 6888 x 5438 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation building England buses engineering industry country construction site British bus English industrial building site location infrastructure century double decker Britain first car park concept civil engineering Gloucestershire B&W office building nuclear power nuclear power station parked fifties 1950s road Transport omnibus temporary Construction Industry Berkeley double-decker black & white black and white B W 20th century decade TGN photograph two decker nuclear powered Berkeley nuclear power station Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc bus park