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

Found in 196 Collections and/or Records:

Press: press releases, 1950-1962

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/B/1
Scope and Contents Incomplete file of press releases issued by London County Council. These relate to the Council's housing, architecture and town planning functions. The subjects encompass housing policy, housing developments areas, Comprehensive Redevelopment Areas and provision of public buildings. Individual projects featured include: housing developments in Wandsworth; construction of a number of new schools; redevelopment of Stepney / Poplar, Elephant and Castle and Deptford; and the South Bank...
Dates: 1950-1962
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: public relations

Proposed flats and maisonettes - Alpha Place, 1938

 File
Identifier: PJM/WBC/B/11
Scope and Contents

2 copy site plans (39cm x 42cm) at a scale of 44 feet to 1 inch, for a proposed development of flats and maisonettes at Alpha Road, Willesden. The plans are at the scale 8 feet to 1 inch. The architect was the borough engineer F Wayman Brown and the draftsman Percy Johnson-Marshall.

Dates: 1938
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Willesden Borough Council / Plans relating to Willesden Borough Council

Proposed rebuilding of Health Centre No. 2, 1937-1938

 File
Identifier: PJM/WBC/B/8
Scope and Contents

Copy of a set of 4 architectural plans (71cm x 88cm) for the proposed rebuilding of Willesden Health Centre Number 2. There are both plans and elevations, at a variety of scales. The architect is borough engineer, F Wayman Brown and the draftsman Percy Johnson-Marshall.

Dates: 1937-1938
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Willesden Borough Council / Plans relating to Willesden Borough Council

Redevelopment of Coventry - general material, 1939-1945

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/CCC/A/1
Scope and Contents

Redevelopment of Coventry - general material consists of:


  1. general papers, c1945
  2. general photographs, 1939
  3. press clippings and articles, 1940-1944
  4. plans,c1941-1943
Dates: 1939-1945
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council / Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department

Redevelopment of Coventry - general papers, c1945

 File
Identifier: PJM/CCC/A/1/1
Scope and Contents File of papers relating to the redevelopment of Coventry. Includes an application under section I of the Town and Country Planning Act ( 1944) for the redevelopment of Coventry city centre, proceedings of the local public enquiry concerning this application for 25 June 1945 and captions to some missing photographs. There are also 2 pamphlets concerning Coventry's redevelopment and a contemporary street...
Dates: c1945
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council / Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department / Redevelopment of Coventry - general material

Redevelopment of Coventry - general photographs, 1939

 File
Identifier: PJM/CCC/A/1/2
Scope and Contents Redevelopment of Coventry - general photographs consists of: 22 black and white photographic prints (9cm x 11.5cm) showing the first architectural model for the proposed redevelopment of the city centre. It was built by members of the Coventry City Architect's Department, under the direction of the City Architect Donald Gibson, during their spare time in, 1939 4 black and white...
Dates: 1939
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council / Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department / Redevelopment of Coventry - general material

Redevelopment of Coventry - housing, c1940-1944

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/CCC/A/2
Scope and Contents

Redevelopment of Coventry - housing subseries consists of:


  1. material relating to the opening of the Canley Estate houses, 18 December 1941
  2. photographs of the Canley Estate,c1941
  3. press clippings and journal articles concerning Coventry's housing developments, 1940-1944
  4. plans for housing, a nursery and a panoramic view, c1940
Dates: c1940-1944
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council / Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department

Redevelopment of Coventry - press clippings and articles, 1940-1944

 File
Identifier: PJM/CCC/A/1/3
Scope and Contents

Collection of press clippings and articles concerning the redevelopment of Coventry. These appeared in a number of newspapers and journals including the Indian Forces newspaper "Contact", the "Coventry Herald" and "Illustrated". Authors include Sir Donald Evelyn Edward Gibson and Frank Tilsley

Dates: 1940-1944
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council / Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department / Redevelopment of Coventry - general material

Redevelopment of Coventry - proposed redevelopment plans, c1941-1943

 File
Identifier: PJM/CCC/A/1/4
Scope and Contents Redevelopment of Coventry - proposed redevelopment plans consists of a set of 16 copy plans of the proposed redevelopment of Coventry. These cover a number of alternatives for the proposed redevelopment scheme: 5 plans (68cm x 70cm) at 1:2500 scale and are by the city architect, Sir Donald Evelyn Edward Gibson. Each of these plans differs slightly and one is hand-coloured to match the integral...
Dates: c1941-1943
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council / Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department / Redevelopment of Coventry - general material

Refuse disposal plant, 1938

 File
Identifier: PJM/WBC/B/10
Scope and Contents

Copy of a set of 4 architectural plans (69cm x 93cm) for the Willesden refuse disposal plant. The plans are at the scale 8 feet to 1 inch and include elevations, plans and sections. The architect was the borough engineer F Wayman Brown and the draftsman Percy Johnson-Marshall.

Dates: 1938
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Willesden Borough Council / Plans relating to Willesden Borough Council

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