Images Dated 22nd February 2022

Photographer and model JLP01_08_073450

JOHN LAING AND SON LIMITED, PAGE STREET, MILL HILL, BARNET, GREATER LONDON. A photographer taking a photo of a model in the studio of the new Sports Club centre soon after the centre's opening.
By 1966, membership of the Laing Sports Club had reached 2,500 throughout the country. A new Sports Club wing opened at John Laing and Son Ltd's offices at Mill Hill on 28th April 1966. The new centre had two floors which a billiards room, club rooms, sports shop, photographic studio, and offices. A coffee lounge, table tennis hall and TV lounge were separated by folding doors and could be converted into a large meeting hall. In the photograph, a poster advertising The Laing Sports Club, Photography Section, Tenth Annual Exhibition is on the studio wall

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Balloon animal JLP01_08_075283a

JOHN LAING AND SON LIMITED, PAGE STREET, MILL HILL, BARNET, GREATER LONDON. A young girl with Uncle Fred, a children's entertainer, holding a balloon animal in front of an young audience at a Laing children's Christmas party.
Children aged 4-7 years were invited to a Christmas party, while children aged 8-15 years were taken to see Sleeping Beauty on Ice at Wembley. The party for 170 children was held in the new restaurant area of Laing's Mill Hill offices. The children played games, enjoyed a tea, sang carols, watched cartoons and were entertained by Uncle Fred, a children's entertainer and ventriloquist. The party ended with Father Christmas distributing presents

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