IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week’s news features Building’s ‘unearthing’ of an editorial on Parliament’s construction from 1847.
Building writes:
In the first of our series of archive articles celebrating our 180th anniversary, we unearth an editorial from 1847 on the construction of the Houses of Parliament.
….Building, first launched as The Builder in 1843, is one of the world’s oldest surviving trade publications. It started life at a time of huge national confidence, when Britain was the world’s leading industrial power, and when revolutionary new construction techniques were expanding the possibilities of what buildings could look like…..
The medieval palace on the site had been largely destroyed by fire in 1834, sparing only Westminster Hall and a few smaller buildings including the Jewel Tower. Rebuilding the complex would become one of the most ambitious projects of the century…..
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