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construction company, John Laing has built some of The Nation 's power plants and residential settlements, highways, and cathedrals. As a Historical England and the John Laing Charitable Trust-open The Company 's image, the vault, to The Public , here are some of The Firm 's photographs document their bigger builds.

Severn Bridge and The second Severn Bridge took four years to build

The second Severn Bridge , now known as The Prince of Wales Bridge, the traffic sharing on 5. June 1996.

Built to the pressure on The First Severn Bridge was opened 30 years earlier, it carries the six lanes of the M4 between England and Wales, with More Than 30,000 vehicles using it each day.

It is three miles (4. 8 km) long and crosses the River Severn , which is Here Jacqueline Bowker and Anita Manning measurements with the help of Jay Robertson, a large jack-up barge, in the background

It took four years to complete the three-mile (4. 8 km), span.

A toll, the abolished ever since The First bridge was opened in 1966, in December 2018.

M1 and M6, The M6 cuts along The Edge of the Cumbria

in The 1950s and 60s saw The Creation and expansion of the British motorway network.

John Laing helped to stretches of both the M1 and the M6.

It also goes through the West Midlands , the build Here is the workers, the Central reservation of the M1

the construction of the M6, John Laing saw use, his first wife, civil-engineer, the 21-year-old London student, Kik Hong Ong.

Kik Hong Ong worked on the sections C and D of the M6, the M1, opened with much fanfare on 2. November 1959

The M6, the country includes The First stretch of motorway, the Preston by-pass, opened in 1958, on his journey from Rugby to Gretna.

Meanwhile, 193 km long, the M1 linking London to Leeds and was built mainly between 1959 and 1968.

Coventry Cathedral in Coventry built a New Cathedral , near The Remains of the old

On the 14. November, 1940, St Michael's Cathedral in Coventry was practically falling wiped out by the bombs by the air force.

As The Smoke and dust cleared, everything in The Tower and spire, the outer wall, and the tomb of The First Bishop was stayed.

The Cathedral was designed by Basil Spence , took Six Years to build A helicopter was used to The Cathedral spire

The new, modern Cathedral was built between 1956 and 1962, a stone's throw away from where The Shell of the bombed-out building still stands.

It was designed by Basil Spence and built by John Laing, the construction, including the use of a helicopter to the square of The Cathedral , The Tower .

Barbican The Barbican estate the estate was built in the 1960s, was built, in the Cripplegate area

The 40-acre Barbican estate was built in the 1960s, in the heart of London 's Old City wall, which is flattened on one side by World War Two bombs.

Celebrated as a fine example of the brutalist concrete architecture, it consists of apartments, a cultural Centre , a school and The Museum of London .

It was designed to house city employees and their families visited The Queen The Barbican in the year 1972, The arts Centre contains several theatres, cinemas and a library,

It is home to about 4000 people and was built against a deficit in housing in this part of London , after The War .

The Queen visited The Barbican on 20. November, 1972, The Day they celebrated their silver wedding.

Berkeley Nuclear Power Station Berkeley, was a Magnox Power Station that ran on uranium

Berkeley, one of The World 's first commercial Nuclear Power plants was in operation between 1962 and 1989, with its reactors produced enough electricity to power an area the size of Bristol every day.

It was taken in 1962 in operation and operated for 27 years, employed in the fit-lining panels within a cooling water tunnel

He stood beside the River Severn in Gloucestershire, and while many of the buildings have been removed, the work is.

It is not going to be safe for the people, in its two-reactor cores until 2074.

London Central Mosque More Than 100 designs were submitted for the mosque

opened The mosque in the vicinity of Regent's Park in the year 1977 and offers space for about 5,000 believers.

It is also known as the Islamic cultural Centre .

The minaret was built with a slip-forming technique, in which the concrete is poured into a continuously moving form, which is raised at a rate that allows the concrete to harden and hold their shape for The Dome 's exterior was covered in gold-colored copper alloy

More Than 100 designs were submitted for the mosque, before Frederick Gibberd plan was chosen, with the construction under three years of age.

During The Dome 's exterior was covered in gold-colored copper alloy, The Interior is lined with elaborate, geometric tile Mosaic .

The Interior is lined with elaborate, geometric tile Mosaic of The completed mosque was opened in 1977

The images are digitized under 10,000 by the John Laing Photographic collection, which will be open for Public Access on the Historic England website as part of the new territory project.

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