Building Britain with the John Laing Building Company

Meet some of the men and women who helped construct some of the country’s most iconic sites including the Second Severn Crossing (now Prince of Wales Bridge) and London’s Barbican while working for The John Laing plc building company.
Breaking New Ground is a 21-month project supported by the John Laing Charitable Trust to digitise 10,000 images from the Collection, offering a unique insight into the building of post-war Britain. Breaking New Ground has catalogued and digitised thousands of images and made them freely available on the Historic England website: historicenglan...