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London County Council (1887-1965)

 Organization

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Comprehensive Development Areas: Stepney / Poplar, 1940-1961

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2
Scope and Contents

Comprehensive development areas: Stepney / Poplar consists of:


  1. general papers, (1940-1961)
  2. Lansbury Comprehensive Development Area, (1940s-1950s)
  3. other areas, (1950s)
  4. plans, (1946-1950s)
Dates: 1940-1961

Festival of Britain Exhibition: posters, 1951

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.2b
Scope and Contents 2 posters (77cm x 102cm) advertising entry to, and the publicly open buildings in the reconstructed Lansbury Neighbourhood (Neighbouhood no 9) of the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar. This was organised as the "Live Architecture Exhibition" in the Festival of Britain 1951. 1 poster, in full colour, graphically displays the idea of new homes rising from the rubble of post World War II destruction. The other poster in black and green gives general...
Dates: 1951

Lansbury Neighbourhood: plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood, c1949-1950s

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.6
Scope and Contents Plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood (Neighbourhood no 9) of the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar: layout plans, ( c1953-1955 ) London County Council reconstruction area in Stepney / Poplar - Neighbourhood no 9, ( c1949-1955 ) East India Dock Road Neighbourhood - area and house plans, ( 1949-1950s ) Lansbury Market,...
Dates: c1949-1950s

Lewisham Clock Tower: papers, 7 September 1953

 Item
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/7.1
Scope and Contents

Typescript note concerning a change of use, from office buildings to residential, for buildings planned as part of the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 7: Lewisham Clock Tower.

Dates: 7 September 1953

London County Council: photographs, 1940s-1950s

 Series
Identifier: PJM/LCC/G
Scope and Contents Photographs consists of: office blocks, 1950s Gipsy Road, Lambeth, 1940s housing development models and archways, 1950s the south prospect of London, 1666, 1950s architectural models, 1950s architectural models (2), 1958-1961 miscellaneous, 1950s County of London Plan, 1940s ...
Dates: 1940s-1950s

New Barbican: photographs, 1954

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.2.3
Scope and Contents Photographs relating to redevelopment of the Barbican area, as part of London County Council's Comprehensive Redevelopment Area no 1: City of London. The photographs consist of: 30 black and white photographic prints (20cm x 25cm) of the architectural models for the first scheme, and the extension to the first redevelopment scheme. This design was by the Reconstruction Areas Group of the Town Planning...
Dates: 1954

Photographs of Stepney / Poplar: east end before and after reconstruction, c1947-1961

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.1.4b
Scope and Contents Mixed collection of black and white photographic prints. 53 of the prints (max 24cm x 30cm, min 11cm x 17cm) show old or derelict buildings and waste land before reconstruction, some of which have a location, date or London County Council Architect's Town Planning Division stamp on the reverse. The remainder (21cm x 25) are of completed building projects by London County Council Architect's Department, including flats and housing in Stepney / Poplar, a children's play area, Lansbury market,...
Dates: c1947-1961

Plans: Mixed Barbican Development Plans, 1955-1958

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.2.5c
Scope and Contents 4 copy plans relating to the redevelopment of the Barbican Comprehensive Development Area in London. "Barbican 27 storey building Moor Lane" (38cm x 51cm) - layout plan is at 44' to 1" scale, 1958 "Annex B" (55cm x 70cm) - a plan with a numbered index to sites and their areas according to the development plan at 88' to 1" scale, January 1956 "Barbican Area" (50cm x 76cm)...
Dates: 1955-1958

Press: journal articles and press clippings, 1955-1968

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/B/2
Scope and Contents File of printed articles relating to architecture and London County Council housing developments. The majority of the articles are reprints from architectural journals in the 1950s. There are a few press-clippings relating to architectural developments. There are also some typescript and manuscript notes by Percy Johnson-Marshall concerning a proposed article for the Town and Planning Association Journal , and a list of dissemination...
Dates: 1955-1968

Press: press releases, 1950-1962

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/B/1
Scope and Contents Incomplete file of press releases issued by London County Council. These relate to the Council's housing, architecture and town planning functions. The subjects encompass housing policy, housing developments areas, Comprehensive Redevelopment Areas and provision of public buildings. Individual projects featured include: housing developments in Wandsworth; construction of a number of new schools; redevelopment of Stepney / Poplar, Elephant and Castle and Deptford; and the South Bank...
Dates: 1950-1962

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Postwar Reconstruction 7
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Office Buildings 5
Poplar (London, England) 5
City Planning 4