Title

CIS Building, Cooperative Insurance Society Tower, Miller Street, Manchester, 16/10/1962. Creator: John Laing plc.

Caption

CIS Building, Cooperative Insurance Society Tower, Miller Street, Manchester, 16/10/1962. A man operating controls in the basement control room of the Co-operative Insurance Society (CIS) tower in Manchester. In 1959, the Laing Company began work on the construction of two office blocks for the Co-operative Society in Manchester. The Co-operative Insurance Society (CIS) tower was over 350ft high when completed in 1962, and was the tallest office block in the country at the time. On an adjacent site, a smaller 14-storey high office block for the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS) was constructed simultaneously.

Date

1962

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Reference

HRM22A00_072

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

101,5Mb (4,0Mb) / 22,4in x 17,6in / 6733 x 5270 (300dpi)

Keywords

building England people male interior work man men communication communications controls worker country telephone guy operating British English office block telecommunications telephones phone location century Britain inside control panel concept control room console telecommunication B&W basement Manchester Sixties Construction Industry Indoors black & white black and white B W 1960s 20th century workers Greater Manchester TGN working photograph 'phone Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc CIS Tower John Laing & Co John Laing and Company John Laing & Company John Laing and Co