Scaffolding

NOTES: The factory was constructed with a multiple paraboloid timber roof in just six weeks.

NOTES: The factory was constructed with a multiple paraboloid timber roof in just six weeks.

NOTES: William Frederick Johnson was the chief architect for Courtauld Technical Services Limited. The lecture theatre was part of a much larger complex of buildings. The glass wall of the front elevation was the biggest in Europe, at three storeys high and 65 feet wide, made up of 42 panels of armour-plated glass.

NOTES: William Frederick Johnson was the chief architect for Courtauld Technical Services Limited. The lecture theatre was part of a much larger complex of buildings. The glass wall of the front elevation was the biggest in Europe, at three storeys high and 65 feet wide, made up of 42 panels of armour-plated glass.

NOTES: Both Ivy de Wolfe and Ivor de Wolfe took photographs, although the majority were taken by Ivy. As this photograph is signed I de Wolfe, it is uncertain which of the two was responsible.

NOTES: This print is one of two published in 1739, as republished in 1805, illustrating the scaffolding used to restore the leaning north face of the north transept to the perpendicular under the direction of architect Nicholas Hawksmoor and master carpenter/architect William Thornton during 1716-1720.

NOTES: This print is one of two published in 1739, as republished in 1805, illustrating the scaffolding used to restore the leaning north face of the north transept to the perpendicular under the direction of architect Nicholas Hawksmoor and master carpenter/architect William Thornton during 1716-1720.