This collection of photos record the building work undertaken from 1949, replacing Ealing Technical College’s existing premises with a much larger building. Designed by the architect for the County of Middlesex, Mr C. G. Stillman, the new building was finished in 1952. By then Ealing Technical College was the largest in the country and boasted impressive equipment and facilities.

The images not only show the development of the College buildings but also show what it was like to work on a construction site 70 years ago – there’s not a helmet in sight!

Decades later, the building now forms a central part of UWL’s Ealing Campus on St Mary’s Road, and is still recognisable today.

For more information on this album of construction photos from the 1940’s and 1950’s, visit: https://www.uwl.ac.uk/library/library-services/university-west-london-archive