Coventry Cathedral, Priory Street, Coventry, West Midlands

View of workers operating four piling rigs during the driving of piles for the boiler house section of Coventry Cathedral with the old ruined cathedral in the background. The old cathedral was bombed during an air raid on 14 November 1940. After the architect Sir Basil Spence won a competition to design a new cathedral work began on it in 1955. The photograph comes from the John Laing Company Archive.

Location

West Midlands Coventry

Period

1950s (1950 - 1959)

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cathedral wwii bomb construction work men laing