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Housing Development

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

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Miscellaneous development areas: photographs, 1950s

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/F/3
Scope and Contents 109 mixed black and white photographic prints (20cm x 25cm) from the London County Council Architect's Department's collection. These relate to housing development areas within London County Council's jurisdiction, which were not designated Comprehensive Development Areas. The photographs show a range of housing developments built by London County Council during the 1950s. A number of photographs of plans and architectural models are also included. Housing Estates...
Dates: 1950s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London county Council: miscellaneous development areas

Miscellaneous development areas: plans, 1950s-1964

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/F/2
Scope and Contents Plans of miscellaneous London County Council Development Areas: Caledonian Market, (1958) Westminster Precinct, (1950s-1964) Fort Worth, (1950s) Brandon Estate Southwark, (1 May 1957) Regent's Park Terraces, (February 1959) London North East - Blackfriars proposed riverside development, (26 November 1957) ...
Dates: 1950s-1964
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London county Council: miscellaneous development areas

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas / Comprehensive Development Areas: City of London / City of London: New Barbican

New Barbican: plans, c1953-1958

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.2.5
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Plans of the New Barbican Development planned as part of London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 1: City of London:


  1. Barbican "appendix" plans, (1954)
  2. New Barbican accommodation, (c1955)
  3. mixed Barbican Development Plans, (1955-1958)
  4. annotated plan of the area, (c1953)
Dates: c1953-1958
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas / Comprehensive Development Areas: City of London / City of London: New Barbican

Photographs: architectural models, 1950s

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/G/5
Scope and Contents

2 black and white photographic prints (19cm x 25cm) showing architectural models of housing developments. One shows an area of Southwark. These prints were part of the London County Council Architect's Department Collection.

Dates: 1950s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: photographs

Photographs: housing development models and archways, 1950s

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/G/3
Scope and Contents

3 black and white photographic prints (19cm x 25cm). Two show different unidentified architectural models for housing developments. The third shows some historic archways standing amongst rubble. These were part of the London County Council Architect's Department Collection.

Dates: 1950s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: photographs

Photographs: Huntingdon and Thetford, 1950s

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/G/11
Scope and Contents

31 black and white photographic prints (20cm x 24cm) from the London County Council Architect's Department collection. This set of photographs shows architectural models, architectural drawings and plans, and exterior views of housing estates outside the County of London. Some of these images show estates in Huntingdon and Thetford.

Dates: 1950s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: photographs

Photographs of Stepney / Poplar: east end before and after reconstruction, c1947-1961

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.1.4b
Scope and Contents Mixed collection of black and white photographic prints. 53 of the prints (max 24cm x 30cm, min 11cm x 17cm) show old or derelict buildings and waste land before reconstruction, some of which have a location, date or London County Council Architect's Town Planning Division stamp on the reverse. The remainder (21cm x 25) are of completed building projects by London County Council Architect's Department, including flats and housing in Stepney / Poplar, a children's play area, Lansbury market,...
Dates: c1947-1961
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas / Comprehensive Development Areas: Stepney / Poplar / Stepney / Poplar: general papers and photographs / General papers: photographs of Stepney / Poplar

Photographs of Stepney / Poplar: London County Council Housing Department visit, c1958

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.1.4e
Scope and Contents

Black and white photographic print (15cm x 21cm) showing members of the London County Council Planning and Housing Committees visiting housing in London's Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar.

Dates: c1958
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas / Comprehensive Development Areas: Stepney / Poplar / Stepney / Poplar: general papers and photographs / General papers: photographs of Stepney / Poplar

Plans: Area of comprehensive development no 2 - Stepney / Poplar, 1950s

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.4.3
Scope and Contents 38 copy plans by the Reconstruction Areas Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department comprising plans of the neighbourhoods of Comprehensive Development Area No 2: Stepney and Poplar. The plans comprise: 16 Ordnance Survey base plans (69cm x 102cm) at 1:1250 scale for each neighbourhood unit in Stepney / Poplar with a location plan indicating which neighbourhood...
Dates: 1950s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas / Comprehensive Development Areas: Stepney / Poplar / Stepney / Poplar: plans

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