Following extensive restoration work at the General Offices, a new extension was added to accommodate the Archives’ Strongrooms and Conservation Studio. The Archives moved to the General Offices in August 2011.
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After the closure of the Steelworks in 2002, the General Offices became part of a £350m redevelopment plan for the former steelworks site.
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The General Offices was built in 1915/1916 for the Ebbw Vale Iron and Steel Company. It was designed by the architects Veall & Sant in a Free Dutch/Baroque style with red brick and buff coloured ashlar.
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#For #Archive30 #ArchiveBuildings we're sharing our article about a less well known parliamentary building: the temporary chamber used by the House of Commons after much of the old Palace of Westminster was destroyed by fire in 1834. Find out more here: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2022/10/28/a...
Black and white photo showing a partially demolished building. The remains of four floors can be seen with large doorways and fireplaces visible. Rubble lies in the foreground
The demolition of the Lister wards at Glasgow Royal Infirmary (1926). The wards opened in 1861 and were the birthplace for Lister's antiseptic practice which revolutionised surgery. There was international outcry at the demolition of such an historically important site
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Bexley Archives, along with Central Library Bexleyheath, is getting a new roof! The library building here first opened in 1980, with the archives moving here from Hall Place in 2000. #ArchiveBuildings #Archive30
It's #ArchiveBuildings today for #Archive30 and this is our Playfair building in Edinburgh's Old Town. With a bonus pic of the reading room loo because it's rather fancy!
The Welsh Metropolitan War Hospital Postcard showing the front entrance and water tower on the left
Postcard showing the front entrance and the water tower when a military hospital during the First World War
Photo from the Cardiff heritage library collection showing the number of buildings within the hospital
Photo of the hospital Chapel from the collection at the Cardiff Heritage library
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The Cardiff City Mental Hospital, later: Whitchurch Hospital
(Not our buildings, the stories that happened within these walls, we are researching & sharing)
The beautiful buildings in better days
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A square image with a teal colour background. In the top right corner there is the UWTSD logo and in the top left corner there is the UWTSD library logo. In between the logos there is text that says “Archive 30”. In the centre of the image there is a black and white photograph of the Broadcast Hall that was built by Trinity Training College Carmarthen and the BBC. The building is square, tall with a staircase leading to it. In front and to the left there are trees and hedges.
This impressive Broadcast Hall was built by Trinity Training College, Carmarthen and the BBC. It opened in October 1938 and was, at that time, the only building of its type in England and Wales.
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#Archive30 #ArchiveBuildings Our store in the 1960s when it was first built as laboratories for the Botany Dept of the University of Birmingham. It now houses Winterbourne's archive and object stores, including the #Herbarium, #GKNarchive and family archives. @arascot.bsky.social
A square image with a teal colour background. In the top right corner there is the UWTSD logo and in the top left corner there is the UWTSD library logo. In between the logos there is text that says “Archive 30”. In the centre of the image there is a black and white photograph of the Swansea Training College. The building is large and is surrounded by fields.
Swansea Training College's Townhill building was officially opened in 1913. The college had previously been based at Nelson Terrace. The building was built on a contract price of 37,317 pounds, 19 shillings and 11 pence.
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Today #ArchiveBuildings for #Archive30: Rice Merrick's Morganiae Archaiographica www.southwalesrecordsociety.co.uk/01.htm lists not only C16 houses and churches but also bridges - including a timber bridge across the Taff just north of Pontypridd: but it was 'decayed' and bridges on the Rhondda/
#DMUat155 Every building has a story to tell: From medieval roots to modern riverside campus—DMU’s transformation over 155 years is amazing & we ❤️ all our photos and maps showingcasing that for #Archive30 #ArchiveBuildings! @arascot.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social @dmuleicester.bsky.social
For day 28 of #Archive30 we want to see some #ArchiveBuildings. Maybe the building that is your home? Some interesting photos of a historical local building? Or a really ornate plan?
Dundee City Archives is housed in the Caird Hall building (we are on the floor beneath the main hall). In fact in this photograph from 8th January 1916 you can actually see some of our rooms being built - complete with solid concrete walls. #ArchiveBuildings #Archive30
Black and white illustration showing an open road with buildings to the back and side. Building in the back has an open archway. Building to the side has a large clock to the top.
Black and white photograph of a four storey brick building with gable to top and round tower like structure to one side.
Colour photograph of a tall tower block with the New Scotland Yard revolving sign outside.
Colour photograph of a building with white facade, set back on the road, with a single storey glass entrance and a concrete wall in front.
The different buildings that have been home to Scotland Yard - Whitehall Place 1829-1890, Norman Shaw buildings on Victoria Embankment 1890-1967, Broadway 1967-2017, and finally in 2017 a return to Victoria Embankment with the Curtis Green Building. #ArchiveBuildings #Archive30
