page_title: Mowlem
section_title: Major projects
hierarchical_section_title: Mowlem / Major projects
caption_attribution_description: English: Tower 42 looking north from Bishopsgate.
context_page_description: Mowlem was one of the largest construction and civil engineering companies in the United Kingdom. Carillion bought the firm in 2006.
context_section_description: Major projects undertaken by or involving Mowlem included:
  Billingsgate Fish Market completed in 1874
  Smithfield Fruit Market completed in 1882
  The Imperial Institute completed in 1887
  The Woolwich Ferry terminals opened in 1889
  Liverpool Street station and the Great Eastern Hotel completed in 1891
  The Institution of Civil Engineers completed in 1911
  Admiralty Arch completed in 1912
  The Port of London Authority Building completed in 1919
  Bush House completed in 1923
  The London Post Office Railway completed in 1927
  Piccadilly Circus tube station completed in 1928
  Battersea Power Station completed in 1933
  The reconstruction works at Buckingham Palace in 1943 following bomb damage
  The reconstruction of the House of Commons in 1947 also following bomb damage
  The William Girling Reservoir completed in 1951
  Hunterston A nuclear power station completed in 1957
  The Strand Underpass completed in 1962
  Millbank Tower completed in 1963
  The reconstruction of 10 Downing Street in 1963
  A new altar for Westminster Abbey in 1966
  London Bridge completed in 1972
  The Natwest Tower completed in 1979
  Mount Pleasant Airfield completed in 1986
  The Docklands Light Railway completed in 1987
  The Manchester Metrolink completed in 1991
  The refurbishment of Thames House completed in 1994
  The refurbishment of the Albert Memorial completed in 1998
  The expansion of James Cook University Hospital completed in 2003
  The Alice Springs to Darwin railway completed in 2003
  The Spinnaker Tower completed in 2005 *The Twickenham Stadium South Stand completed in 2006
  The Dublin Port Tunnel completed in 2006
  Mowlem was also the owner and developer of London City Airport completed in 1986.
caption: Tower 42 Built by Mowlem
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