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Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department consists of:

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Plans from Coventry City Architectural and Planning Department consists of:

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Redevelopment of Coventry - general material consists of:

Scope and Contents File of papers relating to the redevelopment of Coventry. Includes an application under section I of the Town and Country Planning Act ( 1944) for the redevelopment of Coventry city centre, proceedings of the local public enquiry concerning this application for 25 June 1945 and captions to some missing photographs. There are also 2 pamphlets concerning Coventry's redevelopment and a contemporary street...

Scope and Contents Redevelopment of Coventry - general photographs consists of: 22 black and white photographic prints (9cm x 11.5cm) showing the first architectural model for the proposed redevelopment of the city centre. It was built by members of the Coventry City Architect's Department, under the direction of the City Architect Donald Gibson, during their spare time in, 1939 4 black and white...

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Collection of press clippings and articles concerning the redevelopment of Coventry. These appeared in a number of newspapers and journals including the Indian Forces newspaper "Contact", the "Coventry Herald" and "Illustrated". Authors include Sir Donald Evelyn Edward Gibson and Frank Tilsley

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This file contains a number of internal reports produced by the Coventry City Architectural and Planning Department. They include a history of the redevelopment of Coventry, reports to the Planning and Redevelopment Committee, a guide to architecture and planning in Coventry and a description of planned new housing at Willenhall Wood.

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Colour overprinted Ordnance Survey map (102cm x 132cm), at a scale of 4 inches to 1 mile, by city engineer HE Ford. The map is colour coded to show housing density, reserved land and building type along with proposed communications improvements.

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2 printed black and white thematic maps of Coventry and Central Coventry (98cm x 128cm), one at 1:2500 scale and 1 at 6 inches to 1 mile scale. These maps have no title, legend or provenance information.