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

Found in 196 Collections and/or Records:

New Barbican: public enquiry file, 1955

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.2.4
Scope and Contents

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

 File
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

New Barbican: reports and the public enquiry, 1953-1959

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.2.1
Scope and Contents File of papers relating to the redevelopment of the Barbican area of London as part of London County Council's Comprehensive Development Area no 1: City of London. The file consists of a number of reports concerning the scheme by either London County Council's Architect's Department, the Corporation of London Improvements and Town Planning Committee or Chamberlin, Powell & Bon, the architects commissioned to create the scheme. There are also a number of proofs of evidence and related...
Dates: 1953-1959

Nursery school at Curzon Crescent, NW10, 1937

 File
Identifier: PJM/WBC/B/2
Scope and Contents

Set of 4 copy architectural plans (65cm x 95cm) at a variety of scales, of a nursery school at Curzon Crescent in Willesden. The plans show sections, plans, details and an axonometric drawing. The architect for the nursery school was the borough education architect, F Wayman Brown.

Dates: 1937

Other areas of Stepney / Poplar: Clive Street, 1956

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.3.5
Scope and Contents

Information relating to the Clive Street Neighbourhood of Stepney / Poplar, within the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar. This consists of black and white photographic prints: 3 prints (18cm x 24cm) of an architectural model at 1" to 32' scale of the area and 3 variant prints of an architectural drawing of a tower block in the street; and a report concerning responsibilities for the scheme.

Dates: 1956

Other areas of Stepney / Poplar: Poplar, 1956-1959

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.3.2
Scope and Contents Black and white photographic prints (19cm x 24cm) of architectural models of the Poplar area of the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar. There are 10 photographs of a small-scale model of the whole Poplar area. One of these shows the model in an exhibition concerning the reconstruction of the area being inspected by Percy Johnson-Marshall, Hubert Bennet, and LW Lane in 1955. There is also a photograph of an architectural...
Dates: 1956-1959

Other areas of Stepney / Poplar: St Anne's Neighbourhood, 1950s

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.3.4
Scope and Contents Information relating to the St Anne's Neighbourhood of Stepney / Poplar, which was designated Neighbourhood Number 4a, within the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar. This consists of: papers and photographs, (1955-1956) plans - perspectives of Dora Street, (1950s) plans - perspectives of St Anne's Neighbourhood, (1956) ...
Dates: 1950s

Other areas of Stepney / Poplar: Stepney, 1950s

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.3.1
Scope and Contents

Information relating to individual areas of Stepney, within the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar, which are distinct from the Lansbury Neighbourhood (Neighbourhood no 9) of the reconstruction area:


  1. papers and architectural model photographs, ( 1950s )
  2. plans, ( c1954 )
Dates: 1950s

Other areas of Stepney / Poplar: Tidey Street, 1956

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.3.3
Scope and Contents

Information relating to the Tidey Street development of Stepney / Poplar, which was designated Neighbourhood Number 7, within the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar. This consists of:


  1. papers and photographs, (1956)
  2. layout plans, ( April 1955 )
Dates: 1956

Other committees: Education Committee (Further Education) Sub-committee and Schools Planning Sub-committee, 1957-1959

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/A/2.2
Scope and Contents

Small selection of reports to the London County Council Education Committee (Further Education) Sub-committee and Schools Planning Sub-committee. These concern school accommodation requirements, additional accommodation at Chelsea College of Science and Technology and and the rebuilding of Barrett Street Technical College.

Dates: 1957-1959