Talk:Stockwell Garage

Text moved from article

This sentence (in the first paragraph) is clearly a personal recollection, not usually allowed by Wikipedia: 'I worked as a trainee draughtsman for A E BEER in the latter Fifties and it was common knowledge that the BEER engineer who had taken head responsibility for this pioneering engineering project was an elderly Scot named JOHN SMITH'. I was tempted to delete the sentence, as the source of the data is unverifiable. But it seems to contain an important historical link to the name of the original designer of the Stockwell Garage. So how can this wording be modified to fit in with Wikipedia's rules? Boy.bowen (talk) 19:16, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

The following text was added to the article by TheGuntz on 30 September 2012:

"I worked as a trainee draughtsman for A E BEER in the latter Fifties and it was common knowledge that the BEER engineer who had taken head responsibility for this pioneering engineering project was an elderly Scot named JOHN SMITH."

Since Wikipedia isn't for personal reflections, I've moved the text here. It would be nice if we could find a reliable published source for it. Graham87 08:14, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

File:Stockwell Bus Garage 1, London, UK - Diliff.jpg to appear as POTD

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Stockwell Bus Garage 1, London, UK - Diliff.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on August 11, 2015. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2015-08-11. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:29, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Picture of the day

An interior view of Stockwell Garage, a large bus garage in Stockwell, London, designed by Adie, Button and Partners and opened in 1952. The 393-foot-long (120 m) roof structure, seen here, is supported by ten very shallow "two-hinged" arched ribs, between which are cantilevered barrel vaults topped by large skylights. The garage, which could originally hold 200 buses, has been a Grade II* Listed Building since 1988.Photograph: David Iliff

concrete shell

The article does not do justice to the building. The roof is a concrete shell structure. This kind of structure was "pioneered" by the architect Pier Luigi Nervi. The building is remarkable because of the size of the area which is covered without any supporting columns a considerable feat of engineering at the time of it's construction. Petergans (talk) 07:45, 11 August 2015 (UTC)