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The dome's clear span roof would easily cover an area the size of a football pitch.

FAMILY FUN Winter Wonderland and ice rink It's really starting to feel like Christmas so why not make the most of the darker nights with some fun on the Winter Wonderland ice rink, which is now also undercover with a clear span roof and night sky lights?

It was only the later 1885 double span roof that survived until modernisation although it had been repaired because of bomb damage.

Workmen at the scene 24 hours after the bombing of Middlesbrough railway station in August |1942, when the iconic span roof was badly damaged

When the warehouse was built it had the biggest single span roof in the country.

The stats are impressive; 1000 tons of steel, 500 tons of precast floor sections, 6' ' deep fabricated box beams and massive 34m single span roof beams.

The arch will support the biggest single span roof structure in the world and will be visible from Canary Wharf, 13 miles away.

Initially it will create 56 jobs at the resort and will see around PS3m spent within the local construction industry The new all-weather facility has been designed to complement its natural surroundings, with a clear span roof, which would easily cover an area the size of a football pitch.

The rink now has a clear span roof and night sky lights while the Wonderland has fairground rides, a big wheel and an authentic Alpine Village.

Cleveland Bridge had already built and erected the stadium's iconic "Triumphant Arch", the longest single span roof structure in the world, and was due to work on the remainder of the site until the project finished in 2006.

'' Measuring 840ft long and 212ft wide, it had the largest single span roof in the world until St Pancras was built in London and opened in 1868 GRAHAM YOUNG