The Martin gas pipeline was installed in 1981 by Laing Industrial Engineering and Construction Ltd for British Gas. Running 84km from Hatton in Lincolnshire to Peterborough, it crossed 50 roads, eight rivers and four railways. Laing's site headquarters was at Martin in Lincolnshire. In the negative register the subject of the photograph reads 'I.E.C. Basildon gas pipe line'. I.E.C. is believed to be a reference to Laing Industrial Engineering and Construction Limited.
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: JLP01/10 John Laing Photographic Collection Colour Negatives and Transparencies; within the Collection: JLP01 John Laing Photographic Collection
© Historic England Archive. John Laing Photographic Collection
Late 20th Century Pipeline, Engineering, People At Work
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