Storage Gallery

Map Room JLP01_08_077525

University of Nottingham, Sir Clive Grainger Building, University Park, Nottingham. The map room in a new building for the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences at the University of Nottingham, with a man looking into a drawer in a plans chest.
This university building was designed by the architects Bartlett and Gray of Nottingham and was built by the Nottingham district team of Laing's Construction Company for the University of Nottingham, with work starting in the autumn of 1965. In an article published in February 1968 in their monthly newsletter Team Spirit, Laing describe the building as consisting of five buildings in one grouped round a courtyard with a lecture theatre off at a tangent. Originally housing the departments of geography, social science, politics, law and banking, it has subsequently been renamed the Sir Clive Grainger Building and now houses the School of Geography and the School of Economics

© Historic England Archive

Fairey Campania two-seat seaplane

Fairey Campania two-seat carrier-borne reconnaissance or coastal patroller seaplane, which entered production in early 1917. It was mounted on a wheeled trolley for takeoff from a ship's flight deck. Seen here is the fifth aircraft produced, serial no. N1004, with its wings folded for ease of storage aboard ship. Date: circa 1917-1918

© Hugh W. Cowin Aviation Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

Gas storage tanks

Gas storage tanks. Supporting structures of three gas storage tanks and two electricity pylons and power lines silhouetted against a setting sun. These large cylindrical tanks are sometimes called gasholders or gasometers. The actual storage tanks (not seen) are telescopic, and their height above ground varies with the amount of gas in them. The gas level here is low, and only the framework that supports the full tanks is seen. The gas stored is obtained from natural gas, and used as a household and industrial fuel. The pylons carry power lines that distribute electricity. Gas and electricity are the main sources of household energy

© VICTOR DE SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY