Author: SKEMPTON AW
Title: The Boat Store, Sheerness (1858-60) and its Place in Structural History (Excerpt Transactions of the Newcomen Society, Vol XXXII, 1959-60)
Description: London, Newcomen Society 1960 22pp, 10 bw plates, 2 figs 25x19, card wraps Spine of wraps splitting, contents very good. The earliest surviving example of a multi-storey iron-frame and panel structure building, the same method of construction as the Crystal Palace and the original museum building at South Kensington. The boat store is now Grade I listed, and is on Historic England's buildings at risk register. The photographs in this offprint are particularly good.

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