Title

Berkeley Power Station, Berkeley, Ham and Stone, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 08/01/1957. Creator: John Laing plc.

Caption

Mrs Short the Typist and G A Cooke the Office Manager standing outside the Laing Mobile Office on the Berkeley Nuclear Power Station construction site. Berkeley Nuclear Power Station was the first commercial nuclear power station in the United Kingdom and one of the first generation of nuclear reactors in Britain. Laing were the civil engineers for the project with work commencing on 7th January 1957. The 57 acre site included offices and temporary housing with facilities for the workers on site.

Date

1957

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Reference

HRM21A84_122

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

80,6Mb (4,6Mb) / 18,0in x 17,4in / 5406 x 5208 (300dpi)

Keywords

building England female women woman people male work office job man men engineering industry worker country construction site guy occupation British English industrial building site location infrastructure century Britain profession manager TYPIST concept civil engineering Gloucestershire B&W office building nuclear power nuclear power station fifties 1950s Construction Industry Berkeley black & white black and white B W 20th century workers decade TGN photograph Mrs nuclear powered Short Cooke GA Berkeley nuclear power station Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc Mrs Short GA Cooke