• Source: J. L. Eve Construction

      • J. L. Eve Construction was a civil engineering company from south London.


      History



      The company was formed on 8 February 1930 by John Leonard Eve (3 February 1887 - 25 June 1954) from Aveley in Essex.
      He grew up at Cranham Hall in Cranham in Essex, now part of London. Richard Newland Eve had lived there from 1896. His mother was Elizabeth Mary Manning, daughter of Abraham Manning, of Moor Hall in Rainham. His parents married on 5 June 1873 at Aveley church.
      His father died on 19 October 1917, aged 72. Richard was the son of William Eve, of Manor House in North Ockendon. On 18 November 1937, his first wife Nancy Gill died, with the funeral at Hornchurch parish church. He remarried Doris Matthews in 1940, with a son David born on 16 February 1945.
      In 1924 he was appointed as the Chief Engineer for the river crossings of the Scottish area of the Central Electricity Board (CEB, which existed from 1926 to 1947). He worked with Robert Chandler-Brown. The CEGB came into existence in 1957. J.L. Eve left a son and a daughter.

      Chain Home and National Grid
      In the 1930s the company built steel-lattice towers for the new National Grid and for the Chain Home transmitters. The electrical cable was often supplied by Pirelli UK of Eastleigh in Hampshire (now Prysmian Group).
      The Air Ministry had contacted the company to build two test radar transmitters, one on the south coast, and one on Orkney. After 1939, the company extended it to over fifty radar sites. It built the first part of the supergrid in 1952 from Tilbury to Elstree - with a 275kV voltage instead of 132kV and 136 ft instead of 85 ft, with 45 miles for the British Electricity Authority


      Ownership


      It joined the Unlisted Securities Market in September 1986 From 1982 to 1988 it was known as Eve Construction. It would later be known as Eve Group plc from April 1988, then Eve Group Ltd and Babcock Networks Ltd from 2004. It was bought by the Peterhouse Group plc in January 2000. In the late 1990s the chief executive was Alan Robertson, with finance director Christopher Wigg.
      Babcock Networks, its successor, is situated off the M1 at Sherwood Park at Annesley, next to E.ON UK; its training base is at the former RAF Newton in Nottinghamshire.
      On Thursday March 2003 at 2.10pm Prince Andrew, Duke of York visited Eve Transcom in Annesley (Sherwood Park) in Nottinghamshire, near junction 27 of the M1, later visiting Carlsbro at 3.20pm.


      Sponsorship


      From 1982 to 2000, it sponsored the Surrey Championship (cricket), being replaced by Castle Lager.


      Structure


      It was based at Minster House on Plough Lane in Tooting. It was based south of Summerstown on the B235, north of Haydons Road railway station (on the A218).


      = Divisions

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      Later divisions of Eve Group were:

      Eve Arclive, formed on 18 June 1976 - electrical contracting, later it became Eve Power
      Trakway, later known as Eve Trakway and now known as Live (Trakway) and based in Bramley Vale and Doe Lea in Ault Hucknall near Glapwell in Derbyshire off the A617, east of the Heath Interchange M1 junction 29, and supplies crowd control barriers and temporary fencing. It is owned by Ashtead Group, who trade as A-Plant. In 2002 Eve Trakway built the Super Fortress security fence for the Glastonbury Festival. Eve Construction Trakway was at Lower Heyford, then moved to Sutton-in-Ashfield in the 1970s.
      Eve Telecom
      Eve Transcom, comprised

      Eve Transmission - carried out construction and repair of transmission lines for the National Grid
      Eve Cellular - in late 1999, it had built over 7,000 mobile phone base stations throughout the 1990s
      Eve Engineering Design Services
      Eve Structures


      Products



      It built structural steel fabricated buildings or structures.

      Electrical substations at Bolney, Brockley, Longford in 1970, Capenhurst, and Sundon in 1961


      = Transmitters

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      Angus transmitting station near Forfar, north of Dundee, in October 1965
      Bilsdale transmitting station on the North York Moors
      Divis transmitting station (500 ft), carries television for eastern Northern Ireland in the mid-1950s
      Durris transmitting station; 38-year-old Thomas Sutherland of Blairgowrie died in its construction on 24 October 1966, falling 175 ft from 300 ft up the mast; the company had a regional office in Edinburgh
      The original Emley Moor steel-tube mast, which collapsed on 19 March 1969.; also built the 50-ton 180 ft top steel lattice, on the top of the current structure in December 1970
      Meldrum transmitting station (500 ft) on Core Hill carries national radio in north-east Scotland, in the mid-1950s
      Selkirk transmitting station in 1961/62, which is 925 ft above sea level
      Skelton Transmitting Station, the tallest structure in the UK at 365 metres, and was built in the war for clandestine broadcasts, now a few miles west of the M6, north of Penrith
      Start Point transmitting station on the most southern point of the Devon coast, in the late 1930s
      Stockland Hill transmitting station, in the east of Devon, towards Dorset, for the IBA in 1961 for 405-line b/w television
      Tacolneston transmitting station for the new BBC East services; the site was known for many years first as the Norwich television transmitter
      Woofferton transmitting station, at Woofferton in the south of Shropshire, on the Herefordshire boundary, important in clandestine broadcasts in the Second World War


      = Powerlines

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      Aust Severn Powerline Crossing (488 ft tall) - the longest powerline crossing in the United Kingdom at 1700 m (5,310 ft) between towers (built around 1955)
      275kV line from Beauly to Kintore, Aberdeenshire in 1960, for the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board
      Llantarnam to Crumlin
      Melksham - Bramley 275kV in 1958
      Poplar - Brimsdown 132kV in 1950
      Berkeley - Gloucester 132kV in 1952
      Pennc - Round Oak 132kV in 1956
      Tilbury - Basildon 132 kV in 1957
      Drax - Eggborough-Keadby 400kV in 1968
      Drax - Thornton Junction 400kV in 1969


      See also


      Bierrum, (Danish) builder of Britain's cooling towers
      Powerline river crossings in the United Kingdom


      References




      External links


      Grace's Guide
      Renovation Construction
      J.L. Eve Construction Co. Ltd. at the British Film Institute

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