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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:

General comprehensive development areas files: plans - Administrative County of London Development Plan, 1951: areas of comprehensive development, 1951

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/9.2
Scope and Contents Plans of the Comprehensive development Areas designated by London County Council in the Administrative County of London Development Plan (1951) : : No 1 - City of London, (1951) No 2 - Stepney / Poplar, (1951) No 3 - Bermondsey, (1951) No 4 - South Bank, (1951) ...
Dates: 1951

General papers: planning reports, 1949-1958

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.1.2
Scope and Contents File of completed planning application reports - form TP5, submitted under the Town and Country Planning Act, ( 1947) to London County Council Architect's Department Town Planning Division. These give details of a large number of proposed developments in the Comprehensive Development Areas of City of London, Stepney / Poplar and Bermondsey. There is also an index to the applications and a complete list of...
Dates: 1949-1958

General work: proofs of evidence, 1950-1957

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/D/4.5
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File of proofs of evidence, presented by Percy Johnson-Marshall on behalf of London County Council, for planning appeals under the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947. The file includes the legal documentation for a number of proofs of evidence for Stepney, London and the City of London. It also contains correspondence concerning these, and typescript and manuscript drafts. There are also 2 maps, one of the Barbican area of London and one of the centre of Toronto, Canada.

Dates: 1950-1957

Grand Avenue, Smithfield Market, London, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1825
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Photograph of Grand Avenue, the main route through the centre of Smithfield Market in London in [1908?].

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Letter of Sir James Matthew Barrie to Sir Edwin Lutyens, 6 August 1919, 10 March 1970

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Identifier: Coll-1848/23-0028
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Signed autograph letter from Sir James Matthew Barrie to his friend and creative collaborator the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, praising Lutyens' design for the Cenotaph, London.


There is an accompanying letter from Nicholas Taylor of the Lutyens Trust, dated 10 March 1970, thanking the then owner Ben Sonnenberg Jr for letting him see a copy of the letter.

Dates: 6 August 1919; 10 March 1970

London County Council, 1937-1968

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Identifier: PJM/LCC
Scope and Contents The papers related to London County Council consist of: committee reports and agenda, (1949-1959) public relations, (1950-1968) Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London, (1937-1960) Architect's Department, (1940s-1964) Comprehensive Development Areas, (1944-c1960) miscellaneous Development Areas,...
Dates: 1937-1968

London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas, 1944-c1960

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E
Scope and Contents London County Council: Comprehensive development areas consists of: City of London, (1947-1959) Stepney / Poplar, ( 1940-1961 ) Bermondsey, ( 1944-1959 ) South Bank, (1949-c1960) Elephant and Castle, (1951-c1956 ) Bunhill Fields, ( 1950s ) Lewisham Clock Tower, ( 1950s ) Woolwich, (...
Dates: 1944-c1960

New Barbican: photographs, 1954

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.2.3
Scope and Contents Photographs relating to redevelopment of the Barbican area, as part of London County Council's Comprehensive Redevelopment Area no 1: City of London. The photographs consist of: 30 black and white photographic prints (20cm x 25cm) of the architectural models for the first scheme, and the extension to the first redevelopment scheme. This design was by the Reconstruction Areas Group of the Town Planning...
Dates: 1954

New Barbican: public enquiry file, 1955

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.2.4
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File of papers and notes related to the public enquiry into the "New Barbican" development scheme proposed by the New Barbican Committee for the redevelopment of the Barbican area of London. The file includes proofs of evidence submitted to the enquiry, London County Council Architect's Department memoranda and handwritten notes taken during the enquiry.

Dates: 1955

New Barbican: redevelopment plans, 1954-1958

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.2.2
Scope and Contents 2 reports with accompanying photographs and plans concerning the redevelopment of the Barbican area, part of London County Council's Comprehensive Redevelopment Area no 1: City of London. The first; New Barbican ( 29 September 1954) is by Kadleigh, Whitfield & Horsburgh, and was commissioned by the New Barbican Committee who presented it to London County Council. This outlines a comprehensive...
Dates: 1954-1958