London County Council (1887-1965)
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
Found in:
University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections
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The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection
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London County Council
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London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas
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Comprehensive Development Areas: Stepney / Poplar
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Stepney / Poplar: Lansbury Neighbourhood
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Lansbury Neighbourhood: Festival of Britain Exhibition
London County Council: Architect's Department, 1940s-1964
Series
Identifier: PJM/LCC/D
Scope and Contents
London County Council: Architect's Department consists of:
- Administrative County of London Development Plan, 1951, (1945-1958)
- planning manuals and methodologies, (1940s-1959)
- staffing issues, (1945-1959)
- general work, (1944-1964)
- exhibitions, (1951-1959)
- sociological reports, (1951-1957)
Dates:
1940s-1964
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
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Exhibitions 2
- Housing Development 2
- Local Government 2
- Poplar (London, England) 2
- Administration 1
- Architects 1
- Architecture, Conservation and Restoration 1
- Architecture, Designs and Plans 1
- Building Laws 1
- Business Communication 1
- Church Buildings 1
- City Planners 1
- City Planning and Redevelopment Law 1
- Deptford (London, England) 1
- England -- London -- Elephant and Castle 1
- Housing 1
- Posters 1
- Postwar Reconstruction 1
- Press Releases 1
- Public Buildings 1
- Regional Planning 1
- Shopping Centers 1
- Social Surveys 1
- Sociology 1
- Staff Management 1
- Stepney (London, England) 1
- Wandsworth (London, England) 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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