Industry Gallery

Railway goods shed, Rainham c.1860 IC277_001

A cut-away reconstruction drawing, by Allan T. Adams, of the railway goods shed at Rainham, Medway, in the 1860s

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Graphic, Industry, Victorian, Warehouse

Gin Distillery JLP01_10_41424

Gordon's Gin, Southfields, Laindon, Basildon, Essex. A view from the first floor of the recently completed distillery for Gordon's Gin, looking towards its five copper stills and two men working on the floor below.
This image was catalogued as part of the Breaking New Ground Project in partnership with the John Laing Charitable Trust in 2019-20

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Oil Rig on the river Tees JLP01_08_099192

Graythorp, Hartlepool. An aerial view of tug boats towing the oil platform Graythorp I along the Tees Estuary away from Graythorp.
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. Graythorp I had its christening ceremony on June 4th and was launched on Saturday 29th June 1974, heading off for the Forties Oil Field 250 miles away

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