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Roads, Design and Construction

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

Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:

Sub-committee papers: Town Planning (Special Improvements and Developments) Sub-committee, 1956

 Item
Identifier: PJM/LCC/A/1.5.7
Scope and Contents

An agenda and minutes for the London County Council Town Planning Committee, Town Planning (Special Improvements and Developments) Sub-committee. The agenda gives the order of reference for the sub-committee, the members and the agenda for the meeting to be held on 28 September 1956 and minutes for the meeting held on 9 July 1956. The meetings concern minor road improvements.

Dates: 1956

University / Nicholson (sic) Street comprehensive development, 1963-1964

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/1.8.7
Scope and Contents 2 manuscript street layout plans (63cm x 102cm), by Percy Johnson-Marshall & Associates, for the University of Edinburgh / Nicolson Street Comprehensive Development Area. Detail is restricted to land parcels between street intersections and major buildings. The first plan sub-titled "Acreages and floor areas" contains statistics concerning site area, floor area and plot ratio for each site. The second plan sub-titled "survey of parked vehicles" gives street by street statistics for...
Dates: 1963-1964

University of Edinburgh - Bristo Square, 1979

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/5.5.1
Scope and Contents 4 copy 1:200 scale civil engineering plans (83cm x 120cm) showing the Lothian Street / Potterrow junction in Edinburgh, prior to realignment for the creation of Bristo Square. An outline base plan, which has been used to create the other plans in this file, is on a transparancy. A plan (2 copies) showing height measurements [and bore holes] is also on a transparancy. A paper plan subtitled "Existing services" shows the utilities in the area, which would be affected by the construction of...
Dates: 1979

University of Edinburgh: CDA proposals, 1969

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/1.8.6
Scope and Contents Set of 4 copy plans at 1:1250 scale (95cm x 137cm) by Percy Johnson-Marshall & Associates showing building positions and road layout designs for the proposed comprehensive development of the University of Edinburgh campus. One is a sketch plan showing building location in relation to road requirements. Three are overlaid on Ordnance Survey 1:1250 plans of the area. Two of these have identical base plans but are hand-coloured, one to show primary and secondary distributor roads, the other...
Dates: 1969

University of Edinburgh - King's Buildings roads: details of the perimeter road adjacent to site for Institute of Geological Sciences, September 1970

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/D/4.5
Scope and Contents

Copy of an engineering plan (76cm x 116cm) by Blyth & Blyth at 1:200 scale showing details of the perimeter road adjacent to the site for the Institute of Geological Sciences, at the University of Edinburgh King's Buildings. The plan includes a plan view, and two longitudinal sections. These have a vertical scale of 1:20.

Dates: September 1970

University of Edinburgh: Proposed Physical Education Building: model photographs, 1970s

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Identifier: PJM/PJMA/EUD/B/11
Scope and Contents

A set of approximately 60 photographic negatives from the same film. About half of these depict an architectural model of the proposed physical education building for the University of Edinburgh. The remainder are personal photographs of Percy Johnson-Marshall's children during a family holiday.

Dates: 1970s