Daily Herald Photograph: Eastbourne Terrace Development project

PART OF:
The photographic library of the 'Daily Herald' newspaper
Made:
1958-05-01 in Paddington Station
Daily Herald Photograph: Eastbourne Terrace Development project Daily Herald Photograph: Eastbourne Terrace Development project

Daily Herald Photograph: Eastbourne Terrace Development project
Science Museum Group
© Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Daily Herald Photograph: Eastbourne Terrace Development project
Science Museum Group
© Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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