Title

Coventry Cathedral, Priory Street, Coventry, 11/08/1959. Creator: John Laing plc.

Caption

A view of the construction site at Coventry Cathedral, showing two builders constructing a wall in the foreground and scaffolding erected around the shell of the building in the background. This image was catalogued as part of the Breaking New Ground Project in partnership with the John Laing Charitable Trust in 2019-20.

Date

1959

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Reference

HRM21A84_181

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

98,5Mb (4,9Mb) / 17,0in x 22,5in / 5107 x 6742 (300dpi)

Keywords

building England people male work job man men religious wall walls stone country religion construction site guy occupation scaffold scaffolding British cathedral English church Christianity block blocks building site location century Britain profession construction worker concept B&W fifties west midlands 1950s Construction Industry black & white black and white B W 20th century Coventry Coventry Cathedral decade TGN working photograph Basil Spence Spence Basil Sir Basil Urwin Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc