Brooklands motor racing circuit under construction Finish:20-pack 30th June 1956

30th June 1956

showing the interior of Crystal Palace filled with people

View of Salters' Hall

showing the premises of Carton's tailors shop in the foreground on the right

with the fire station in the background

Brooklands motor racing circuit under construction Finish:20-pack 30th June 1956Brooklands motor racing circuit under construction, Surrey, c1906 c1907. Workmen and horses pictured at the site. Over a nine month period over seven hundred men worked virtually round the clock, seven days a week, the only breaks being on Saturday and Sunday nights. The work involved diverting the river Wey, re housing smallholders, the felling of thirty acres of woodland and the moving of 350,000 cubic yards of earth. Seven miles of rail track was