Images Dated 19th January 2022

Film conservation JLP01_10_30129

BFI National Archive, Kingshill Way, Berkhamsted, Dacorum, Hertfordshire. Two members of staff operating video tape machines in the new conservation centre for the British Film Institute.
The new conservation centre for the British Film Institute was designed by architects Nickolls, King Design and was built by Laing's Chiltern Region. The building, which was named the John Paul Getty Jr Conservation Centre, was completed in 1987. It included a concrete single-storey storage building for nitrate film and a one and two-storey building for the restoration of film with an atrium at its centre

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Friends outside JLP01_08_072661

Bearwood House, Bearwood Road, Smethwick, Sandwell, West Midlands. A young woman sitting in the lounge-diner of a flat at Bearwood House, waving to a friend outside.
Sectra was a French prefabricated steel formwork design for flats which John Laing and Son Ltd acquired the British rights to in 1962. It was a method of using precision-made steel formwork for the placing of structural concrete in tunnel sections in room unit widths and ceiling heights. The units were bolted together in rows on special tracks, with the concrete poured to form the walls and floors in one operation. The formwork was internally heated to accelerate the hardening of the concrete in the mould and the sections were then lifted into position by a tower crane on the construction site.
Bearwood House was built by Laing for Smethwick Borough County Council. The architects were K.R. Emmett, S. Greenwood, J.E. Hepburn and R.E. Philcock. Construction work started in 1965 and the building was opened on 25th January 1966. It has since been demolished

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Gunter Bartusch (MZ, 1) and Tony Jefferies (Yamsel) 1971 Junior TT

German Gunter Bartusch (MZ, 1) and Tony Jefferies (Yamsel) start the 1971 Junior TT

1971 Junior Tt, Gunter Bartusch, Mz, Tony Jefferies, Yamsel