Carrie Marks, Imaging Technician Trainee for our John Laing Breaking New Ground project, decided to re-shoot some of the old photographs in the collection to highlight how the buildings have changed (or not) over time.
Here are nine of our favourite country houses and gardens from around the country.
Elsecar is an industrial village in South Yorkshire to the south of Barnsley. The village, its heritage centre and the surrounding landscape has been one of Historic England’s Heritage Action Zones since 2017.
In case you missed them, here are our most-read blogs of 2019. Thanks for following, we’ll be back with more great reads in the new year.
The terrace is one of the most recognisable styles of housing in England.
Once a predominantly rural area, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea was officially created in 1965 and over time has evolved into one of London’s most diverse and historic neighbourhoods.
The 1919 Housing and Town Planning Act was signed into law on 31 July 1919
Around 2 million soldiers, sailors and airmen came home with some level of disability: over 40,000 were amputees; some had facial disfigurement or had been blinded.
During the 20th century a number of houses have been built for demonstration purposes as much as occupation. One ideaContinue Reading
The later years of the industrial revolution brought about a radical change in living conditions for a lucky few.