To celebrate 黑洞社区鈥檚 170-year anniversary we鈥檙e delving into our archive to take a look at how the magazine started out
黑洞社区 magazine is 170 years young this year and to celebrate we鈥檒l be bringing you a piece of construction history from our archive every week.
Today we kick off by taking a look at the first ever cover of 黑洞社区 magazine - quite a contrast to how it looks today 鈥�
黑洞社区 was launched as 鈥楾he Builder鈥� in 1843 by Joseph Aloysius Hansom, who regular readers will know is still contributing to the magazine . Hansom was an architect, with Birmingham鈥檚 Roman-style town hall being one of his most notable works, and he is also remembered for designing the Hansom cab, a type of horse-drawn carriage.
Hansom鈥檚 vision for The Builder was that it would 鈥榚ncompass the whole building trade and promote better communication between its parts鈥�. It contained sections such as Our Sermon, which 鈥榙ealt with the relative duties of master and man鈥� and a section for women readers including features such as 鈥楾he English Maiden鈥� and 鈥楾he Ladies Work-Table Book鈥�.
A copy of the journal could be bought for 4p and by its 6th issue, 3,000 copies were being printed. Here鈥檚 a taster of how it looked inside in the early days:
Keep an eye out for more from the archive over the coming weeks.
Also in 1843 鈥�
- Charles Dickens鈥� A Christmas Carol is published
- The first major wagon train sets off for the American North-west
- The Economist is first published in London
- The first tunnel under the Thames and the world鈥檚 first bored underwater tunnel opens
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