View of Windscale Plutonium Works in Cumberland, also known as Sellafield, showing railway tracks in foreground

Date:
circa 1950 - 1978
Location:
Windscale, St. Bridget Beckermet, Copeland, Cumbria
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Sellafield Nuclear Processing Site, St. Bridget Beckermet, Copeland, Cumbria
Reference:
JLP01/10/05336
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

John Laing & Son Ltd won the contract to build the country's first plutonium factory in 1948. It was to be built on the site of the wartime factory at Sellafield. This negative dates from around 1978 but is likely to be a copy of an earlier image.

This image was catalogued in 2013 as part of a pilot project funded by the John Laing Charitable Trust.

Content

This is part of the Series: JLP01/10 John Laing Photographic Collection Colour Negatives and Transparencies; within the Collection: JLP01 John Laing Photographic Collection

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© Historic England Archive. John Laing Photographic Collection