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Infrastructure, energy and natural resources

Transport

Dr Richard Beeching.
Lorries carrying wheat-seed from a Kent farm in February 1961.
A 1930s poster advertising Imperial Airways, which developed air routes across the world.
A ship is loaded at Southampton. Containerisation transformed Britain's docks in the 1960s.

Energy and natural resources

A mechanic working on the reactor at Dounreay Atomic Power Station in November 1959.
Margaret Thatcher aboard the North Sea oil rig 'Sea Quest' in September 1975.
A coal miner about to begin a shift underground in the Second World War.

Planning and housing

New tenants on the Stafford Cripps Estate in London look up at their eleventh-floor home in 1954.
A mining village in Lanarkshire in 1949.
A town planner compares a model of Stevenage as it was on 13 July 1949 with a draft of the master plan.