Date:1975 - 1980 (c.)
Description:A wall of the buildings added to the British Reinforced Concrete factory, Stafford in 1971. The wall panels consist of single skin of brick with brick reinforcement in the joints (manufactured by BRC). The panels were also unusual as they did not have a foundation, the panels being designed to span between the stanchion bases. This method was ahead of its time and years before a code of practice was developed. The British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Company manufactured reinforced concrete structures and made steel mesh for reinforcing concrete. The company moved from Manchester to Stafford in 1926, building a new factory in Queensville. Business declined in the 1980s, and the factory closed in 1990 before being demolished in 1991. BRC Special Products moved to a site on the Astonfields Industrial Estate and retained its links with Stafford until it closed in early 2010.
The timeline shows resources around this location over a number of years.
A view of the office blook which faced onto Lichfield Road, built between 1924 and ...
A designer working at a desk in the Design and Drawing Office at the B.R.C. factory, ...
A lorry in the B.R.C livery loaded with rolls of steel mesh parked outside the B.R.C. ...
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Donor ref:Old Factory Wall 2 (37/24383)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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