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Papers and plans relating to the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 3: Bermondsey:

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Files relating to the general work of the Housing Division of London County Council's Architect's Department:

Scope and Contents Series of reports by the Housing Division of London County Council's Architect's Department. Each report is a "note" on a housing development built by the council which give full details of the schemes including the site, the buildings erected on it, anything notable about the buildings, and the team responsible for its construction and management. Additionally there is a report entitled "Flats and maisonettes in high buildings" and one entitled "The work of the Housing Management...

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File concerning the work of the Housing Study Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Housing Division. The file consists of the group's minutes, manuscript and typescript drafts of reports and information sheets and the final printed sheets. The majority of these relate to studies on open spaces.

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8 black and white photographic prints (23cm x 30cm and 16cm x 36cm) showing architectural models by the Town Planning Division of London County Council Architect's Department. The models are of the East India Dock Road Neighbourhood of the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney and Poplar and is at 32 feet to 1 inch scale.

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1 black and white photographic print (20cm x 24.5cm) showing an architectural model by the Town Planning Division of London County Council Architect's Department. The model is the first one which was prepared showing the whole of the Lansbury Neighbourhood, part of the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar, needed to ensure that the first stage of reconstruction could proceed within a planned framework.

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4 black and white photographic prints (20cm x 24cm) showing an architectural model by the Town Planning Division of London County Council Architect's Department. The model is the second one which was prepared showing the whole of the Lansbury Neighbourhood, part of the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar, with amendments, needed to ensure that the first stage of reconstruction could proceed within a planned framework.

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6 black and white photographic prints (12cm x 16cm) showing the Market Square scheme for Lansbury Neighbourhood, part of the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar, designed by Sir Frederick Ernest Gibberd. 1 photograph shows the architectural model commissioned by the Town Planning Division of London County Council Architect's Department. at 1/16" scale. The remainder of the photographs show the realised market square and some housing in the area.

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10 black and white photographic prints (16cm x 21cm) showing an architectural model by the Town Planning Division of London County Council Architect's Department. The model shows stage 1 of the reconstruction scheme for Lansbury Neighbourhood, part of the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar at 1/32" scale. This is the area which comprised the "Live Architecture" Exhibition for the Festival of Britain in 1951.

Scope and Contents Photographs of architectural models for a number of the areas of the Lansbury Neighbourhood of London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar. The series consists of: East India Dock Road Neighbourhood Model, (1949) Lansbury 1st model, (1940s) Lansbury 2nd model, (1940s) Lansbury model of stage 1, (1940s) ...