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Coventry City Council, Coventry City Architect 's Department. Coventry City Architect's Department

 Organization

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

City and Borough of Coventry, Development Plan 1951 - town map, 1951

 Item
Identifier: PJM/CCC/B/2/2
Scope and Contents

Brown and black overprinted Ordnance Survey map (102cm x 145cm), at a scale of 6 inches to 1 mile, by city architect and planning officer Sir Donald Evelyn Edward Gibson. The map is shows land use and accompanies the Coventry Development Plan 1952.

This plan is very fragile.

Dates: 1951
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council / Collected reports and plansregarding Coventry's redevelopment / Plans from Coventry City Architectural and Planning Department

Collected reports and plansregarding Coventry's redevelopment, 1931-1959

 Series
Identifier: PJM/CCC/B
Scope and Contents

Research regarding Coventry series consists of:


  1. reports from Coventry City Architectural and Planning Department, 1955-1959
  2. City Centre development plans from Coventry City Architectural and Planning Department, 1931-1956
Dates: 1931-1959
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council

Coventry City Council, 1939-1959

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: PJM/CCC
Scope and Contents

Papers and plans relating to the Coventry City Council


  1. papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department ,1939-1944
  2. collected reports and plans regarding Coventry's redevelopment, 1931-1959
Dates: 1939-1959
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection

Coventry City Council - Percy Johnson-Marshall's employment, 15 March 1941

 Item
Identifier: PJM/CCC/A/3
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir John Charles Walsham Reith, Lord Reith, from Sir Donald Evelyn Edward Gibson asking for help in an attempt to have Percy Johnson-Marshall excused active service in World War II, so that he could continue to work on reconstruction for Coventry City Architect's Department .

Dates: 15 March 1941
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council / Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department

Coventry housing - opening of the Canley Estate houses, 18 December 1941

 Item
Identifier: PJM/CCC/A/2/1
Scope and Contents

Programme for the opening of the houses on the Canley Estate, Coventry on 18 December 1941 which was attended by the City of Coventry Housing Committee and the City Architect Sir Donald Evelyn Edward Gibson, representing the Coventry City Architect's Department.

Dates: 18 December 1941
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council / Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department / Redevelopment of Coventry - housing

Coventry housing - photographs of the Canley Estate houses, c1941

 File
Identifier: PJM/CCC/A/2/2
Scope and Contents

This file contains a set of 8 labelled black and white photographic prints (15.5cm x 18.5cm) of the housing scheme at Canley Estate, Coventry, and some of the associated negatives on one sheet. There is also a photograph (11.5cm x 12cm) of a planning drawing, probably of the Canley Estate, and 2 black and white photographic print (16cm x 21cm) showing a block of flats under construction.

Dates: c1941
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council / Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department / Redevelopment of Coventry - housing

Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department, 1939-1944

 Series
Identifier: PJM/CCC/A
Scope and Contents

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


  1. general papers, photographs, press-clippings and plans, 1939-1945
  2. photographs, press-clippings and plans concerning housing development in Coventry, c1940-1944
  3. personal material concerning Percy Johnson-Marshall's employment, 15 March 1941
Dates: 1939-1944
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council

Plans from Coventry City Architectural and Planning Department, 1931-1956

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/CCC/B/2
Scope and Contents

Plans from Coventry City Architectural and Planning Department consists of:


  1. The Coventry No 1 Town Planning Scheme, Map No 2, 1931
  2. City and Borough of Coventry, Development Plan 1951 - town map, 1951
  3. thematic maps of central Coventry, unknown
  4. Bell Green District Centre: general layout, 4 January 1956
Dates: 1931-1956
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council / Collected reports and plansregarding Coventry's redevelopment

Redevelopment of Coventry - general material, 1939-1945

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/CCC/A/1
Scope and Contents

Redevelopment of Coventry - general material consists of:


  1. general papers, c1945
  2. general photographs, 1939
  3. press clippings and articles, 1940-1944
  4. plans,c1941-1943
Dates: 1939-1945
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council / Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department

Redevelopment of Coventry - general papers, c1945

 File
Identifier: PJM/CCC/A/1/1
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...
Dates: c1945
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council / Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department / Redevelopment of Coventry - general material

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