Images Dated 2021 November

Cranes building cranes JLP01_08_093073

Graythorp, Hartlepool. Two cranes on the quayside at Graythorp, lifting the foundation tub of a 509 Revolver crane.
In the early 1970s Laing Pipelines Offshore constructed the Graythorp fabrication yard and dry dock on the site of the old William Gray Shipyard. The company created a dry dock which was used for the construction of fixed platform North Sea drilling rigs for the BP North Sea Oil Project. By 1972, one thousand men were working on site to build a tubular structure which would support a drilling rig in the North Sea destined for the Forties Oilfield

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Administration building foyer JLP01_01_147_27

SHELL HAVEN OIL REFINERY, SHELL HAVEN, STANFORD LE HOPE, ESSEX. The ground floor entrance to the new administration building at Shell Haven Refinery, showing the circular lift tower and a woman walking down the winding tower staircase.
The caption beneath this album print reads Shell Haven Administration Block. Ground floor entrance, in the background is the lift tower which is circular and houses the electric passenger lift. On the right, the ground floor entrance to the circular staircase. The top section of picture shows the plaster feature in which the air conditioning louvre can be seen, and this octagonal feature gives an idea what the outside of the tower looks like the brickwork being similar

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Constructing preliminary mixers JLP01_01_028_084

SHOREHAM CEMENT WORKS, UPPER BEEDING, HORSHAM, WEST SUSSEX. Workers constructing the preliminary mixers at Shoreham Cement Works.
John Laing & Son Ltd built a new cement works for Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd at this chalk quarry in Upper Beeding near Shoreham-By-Sea, with work in the quarry starting in February 1949. The work on the site was varied and complex and included the construction of buildings at the cement works, rail sidings and a coal-handling plant. The typed label beneath the photograph reads Completion of inner ring of steel to underside of ring beam. The men at the bottom are preparing to bring up the inner lining of steel

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