Daily Herald Photograph: Eastbourne Terrace Development project
- Made:
- 1958-05-01 in Paddington Station
One photograph of the Eastbourne Terrace development project with scaffolding facing one of the buildings. Caption on back reads: 'Nine months ago Eastbourne Terrace, Paddington, which overlooks the Paddington Main Line station, was a bombed site. To-day three large office blocks, one of 6 stories, one of 10 stories, and another of 19 stories, are nearing completion. The overall length of the three blocks is 1,000 ft. Excavations on the site begun on August 16th, 1957, actual building began exactly a month later. When the project was started 90 men were employed - now ther are 340. The project is called the Eastbourne Terrace Development. PHOTO SHOW. A General view of the Eastbourne Terrace Development project. Towering above the largest block is a huge crane (of French manufacture) 235 ft high'.
Details
- Category:
- Photographs
- Collection:
- Daily Herald Archive
- Object Number:
- 1983-5236/47001
- Materials:
- paper
- type:
- photographic print