Daily Herald Photograph: Constructing a new Odeon Cinema with the slip-form construction system

Daily Herald Photograph: Constructing a new Odeon Cinema with Daily Herald Photograph: Constructing a new Odeon Cinema with

Daily Herald Photograph: Constructing a new Odeon Cinema with
Science Museum Group
© Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Daily Herald Photograph: Constructing a new Odeon Cinema with
Science Museum Group
© Hulton Archive/Getty Images

One photograph featuring workers and scaffolding used to construct a new cinema. Caption on back reads: 'The scene at Marble Arch corner site at 10 a.m. on Tuesday June 15th, 1965. The centre core of the new 250ft. high Office Block, being constructed by a Swedish 'Slip-form' system, sponsored in the United Kingdom by Interconsult London Ltd., has risen to a height of 55 ft. since work began on June 10th, 1965. The main contractor - Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons., are building a new Odeon Cinema - it will be the world's most technically advanced theatre - a parade of shops and a Tower Office block for Rank Estates Ltd. to the design of Architects T.B. Bennett & Sons., at a cost approaching £2,000,000'.

Details

Category:
Photographs
Collection:
Daily Herald Archive
Object Number:
1983-5236/47002
Materials:
paper
type:
photographic print