Construction Historian Winter 2024-25
The No 14, Winter 2024-25 issue of the Construction Historian, the magazine of the Construction History Society, examines a number of buildings. One is the Grade II* 1899 Bristol Tramway Generator Building, now part of a wider regeneration scheme of the Old Brewery Quarter. Its construction was recorded in an album of photographs which has been preserved with the building, documenting the sequence of construction.
There is a description of the Sentinel Works in Jesse Street, Glasgow. Scotland’s first reinforced concrete building was completed in 1905, abandoned in the 1960s and has been slowly deteriorating since the 1980s. The article sheds light on the importance of the building as a testimony to the early reinforced concrete industry in the UK by highlighting the technology behind its construction.
The Construction History Society has its own YouTube channel on which have been posted all the talks from the society’s 2021 annual conference, and other talks may be added in the future. These can be accessed at www.youtube.com/@constructionhistorysociety3794/playlists.
The society has made its X/Twitter account dormant and has set up an account on Bluesky: @constructionhist.bsky.social. It seems that many other organisations are taking the same route.
This article originally appeared in the Institute of Historic Building Conservation’s (IHBC’s) Context 183, published in March 2025.
--Institute of Historic Building Conservation
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