Series: John Laing Photographic Collection Black and White Negatives 1974-1994

Description

The series comprises of approximately over 40,000 black and white negatives documenting various building contracts undertaken by the firm between 1974 and 1994.

Projects covered include hospitals, such as Shoddells Hospital, Chase Farm hospital in Enfield, St George’s Hospital in Tooting, St Francis Hospital at Haywards Heath, Telford District Hospital and Cheltenham hospital; the M25, and widening of the M1, and work on the M24 and M5; Glaxo at Ware in Hertfordshire; Luton International Airport and Birmingham Airport, stores for the Civil Service and other work such as Soho Fire Station, Sherwood Forest holiday village for Centre Parcs, Luton Town FC, the Beamish Museum, LMC Site, Hambro House, Vintners Place, London and building developments at Marylebone Road and Charing Cross Road. Also included are images of the construction of the RAF’s Mount Pleasant Airfield in the Falklands (circa 1983-1985) and pictures of the computing building at the firm’s headquarters at Elstree and numerous staff portraits and company events, such as golden wedding celebrations, retirement presentations, contract signings, charity events and competitions. The series is listed from 1983 to 1994 by Laing (this description is based on these registers). There is at least one copy made by Laing of an original photograph first taken in 1950.

Archival History

The negative bags are labelled with the following format 74/1 ie year number followed by negative number.

There are some colour negatives in this series, of which 10-20 were catalogued during the BNG Project in 2019-2020. Because series 9 negs have been found to be B/W duplicates of series 10 negs, it is not clear if these colour negs were mixed up and put into the series during the selection process, or were already in the series at the start of the project.

Content

This is part of the Collection: JLP01 John Laing Photographic Collection

This Series contains the following materials:

Photograph (Negative): 40,000

Rights

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