Comprehensive Development Areas: Elephant and Castle, 1951-1956
Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/5
Scope and Contents
Comprehensive development areas: Elephant and Castle consists of:
- assorted photographs and reports, (1955-1956)
- plans, (1951-c1955)
Dates
- 1951-1956
Creator
Language of Materials
This material is in English
Physical Description
1 file and 3 plan files
Conditions Governing Access
Material relating to living individuals may be restricted under the Data Protection Act, 1998.
Biographical / Historical
An area extensively bombed during World War II, the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 5: Elephant and Castle centered on a junction of the roads from Westminster and the Waterloo and Blackfriars Bridges. The basic redevelopment design went through various permutations before London County Council built the London College of Printing, designed by the Schools Division of the Architect's Department. In 1951 Percy Johnson-Marshall and Arthur Ling proposed a multi-level intersection and combining the two underground stations. A more modest scheme, with a single level roundabout (1954), was superceded by one involving limited competitions, drafted by Gordon Logie, in 1960. A competition for the design for the commercial development, to be undertaken by private developers, was won by Erno Goldfinger. Messrs Boissevain and Osmond won a second competition, for a shopping centre.
Extent
From the Sub-Fonds: 3.5 metres
Physical Description
1 file and 3 plan files
Archivist's Note
None
Sarah Higgins 18 February 2004
Sarah Higgins 18 February 2004
- Architecture, Designs and Plans
- Boissevain and Osmond (fl1960s)
- Buildings, War Damage
- City Planning
- England -- London -- Elephant and Castle
- Goldfinger, Erno, 1902-1987 (architect)
- Johnson-Marshall, Percy, 1915-1993 (professor of urban design and regional planning, University of Edinburgh)
- Ling, Arthur, 1913-? (architect and town planner)
- Logie, Gordon, fl1960-1989 (architect)
- London (England)
- London College of Printing (1962 -:)
- London County Council (1887-1965)
- London County Council. Architect's Department, Schools Division
- Maps
- Photographs
- Postwar Reconstruction
- Roads, Design and Construction
- Shopping Centers
- Subway Stations
- Technical Reports
- World War, 1939-1945
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
Contact:
Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
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Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk
Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk