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FORCES OF NATURE

... railway ^t Brockley, in south-east London, may have been also due to the weather. A local inhabitant noticed cracks in the brickwork and informed the police who ordered the bridge to be closed. Engineers were sent to the spot, but a few hours later a landslip ...

Published: Saturday 10 December 1960
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 247 | Page: 33 | Tags: Photographs 

HOME FOR A PROVOST: A Group of 18th-Century Houses in Southwark is Being Converted for the Use of the Cathedral ..

... empty since the war and which are now being restored and converted for the use of the Cathedral staff. Much of the original brickwork has been retained on the fagade of the build ings but the structure behind has been virtually rebuilt. Work on the Provost's ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1957
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 302 | Page: 42 | Tags: Photographs 

LEADERS OF BRITISH INDUSTRY: Henry Boot

... whose activities range from building, civil engineering and railway engineering, contracting, joinery manufacturing and brickworking to property owning and development. Mr. Boot was educated locally and then served his articles as a pupil civil engineer ...

Published: Saturday 09 June 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 285 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

CORONATION STREET DESIGNS FOR LONDON: Sir Hugh Casson's Plans for Decorating the Streets of Westminster

... of Westminster CROWNS MAY HANG ABOVE ST. JAMES'S STREET ON CORONATION DAY This street, which is dominated by the mellow brickwork of St. James's Palace, could be dressed to advantage in the rich, red, purple, black and gold of ceremony. The galaxies of ...

Published: Saturday 18 October 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 276 | Page: 37 | Tags: Photographs 

BUILDINGS AND NEW POULTRY

... CALF-REARING HOUSE also suitable as a farrowing house is claimed to have an insulation value equivalent to that of 18-in. cavity brickwork. Size 24j ft. by 16 by 5£. Walls of Cedar. Price £325. Leafwood Buildings Ltd., Wadhurst, Sussex. ATCOST DUTCH BARN, 60 ft ...

THE END OF A FAMOUS THEATRE: Demolition Gangs Pull Down the St. James's

... orcher :ra stalls, only rubble and rubbish rem: in. OUR REVELS NOW ARE ENDED: A workman swings his hammer against the brickwork of the Upper Circle. And the warm scarlet wallpaper is stained by the December rain. On left A last view from the stage of ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1957
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 269 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

A FARM COTTAGE FOR £500: Refurbished Prefabs Serve Again

... than £1,000 including brickwork and decorating. ERECTED FOR £475, by Mr. J. K. R. Holmes at Whaplode Drove, Lincolnshire, who costed his own labour at 5s. 6d. an hour. The total includes cost of interior decoration and brickwork. BUILT-IN CUPBOARDS, wardrobes ...

The Surrey Union

... in Northlands, took an unfortu nate line through the factory grounds at Langhurst, and hounds were stopped at Warn- ham brickworks because of one of the greatest curses of modern fox-hunting the electrified rail way line. They found again immediately ...

JOHN THOMPSON SHELL BOILER DIVISION

... Hilton Hotel Teheran. The Multipac has a dished-end wet-back combustion chamber completely eliminating refractory linings and brickwork. This three-pass boiler can be fired by oil or coal and will fit into a small floor space. Multipacs can be supplied as single ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1963
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 257 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

The Rise of the New BANKSIDE

... SINGLE 320-FT. CHIMNEY OF BANKSIDE POWER STATION HAS NOW BEGUN The metal structure on the left will soon be clothed with brickwork. The chimney will be as unobtrusive as possible in order to meet the complaints of those who claim that the new Bankside ...

Published: Saturday 08 December 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 415 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

ROME'S Colosseum IS BEING REPAIRED: Workmen are now Restoring Cracked Stones in the Ancient Amphitheatre

... arches and the displaced stones above it. The cracks were noticed as early as the beginning of the last century, when the brickwork (below) was erected within the arch to prevent further deterioration. Right-- Looking down from the top of the Colosseum ...

Published: Saturday 19 June 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 432 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs