The Stowmarket pipeline was laid in 1970 by Laing Pipelines for the Gas Council and was part of the Number 5 feeder main. Work started on 7th July 1970 with a works deport established at Rattlesden Airport in Suffolk. The contract was completed by Mid November of that year with 600 men, two trench excavators and 26 side booms laying 106 km of pipeline from Braintree in Essex to Yelverton near Norwich, with the pipeline crossing 123 roads and 5 rivers.
This image was catalogued as part of the Breaking New Ground Project in partnership with the John Laing Charitable Trust in 2019-20.
This is part of the Series: JLP01/08 John Laing Photographic Collection Black and White Negatives; within the Collection: JLP01 John Laing Photographic Collection
© Historic England Archive. John Laing Photographic Collection
Depot, Road Transport
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