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Found in 196 Collections and/or Records:

Photographs relating to Willesden Borough Council, 1935-1938

 Series
Identifier: PJM/WBC/C
Scope and Contents Photographs relating to Willesden Borough Council consists of: 4 black and white photographic prints (12cm x 16cm) of Willesden Cemetery Keeper's House 1938 2 black and white negatives (8cm x 11cm) of Willesden Cemetery Keeper's House 1938 2 black and white photographic prints (16cm x 21cm) of the exterior of the Electricity showrooms on Willesden Lane. 1 is inscribed by...
Dates: 1935-1938
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Willesden Borough Council

Planning manuals and methodologies: filing system information, 1948

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/D/2.6
Scope and Contents

List of file classifications from London County Council. The lists consist of: index to planning technique files, planning technique files: new town files, planning technique files: miscellaneous , local authority files, library cuttings files and a set of rules for the map library.

Dates: 1948
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Architect's Department / London County Council Architect's Department: planning manuals and methodologies

Planning manuals and methodologies: memos, 1955-1958

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

Percy Johnson-Marshall's file of memoranda issued by the London County Council's Architect's Department to the Town Planning Division during his employment there. These memoranda cover a number of professional issues which staff needed to be kept abreast of including standards, procedures and the work of other divisions of the council.

Dates: 1955-1958
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Architect's Department / London County Council Architect's Department: planning manuals and methodologies

Planning manuals and methodologies: model house plans, 1952-1956

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/D/2.7
Scope and Contents

4 house type manuals from London County Council Architect's Department Town Planning Division and Housing Division. These show floor plans for the standard house types which London County Council built during the 1950s.

Dates: 1952-1956
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Architect's Department / London County Council Architect's Department: planning manuals and methodologies

Planning manuals and methodologies: research materials, 1947-1955

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/D/2.5
Scope and Contents

File of research materials kept by Percy Johnson-Marshall while employed in London County Council Architect's Department. The file contains papers and research notes on a number of planning methodologies including, daylight, building density, development in central London, child population statistics and planning controls.

In addition the file contains related typescript notes of visits, meetings and talks, memoranda on departmental procedures and notes on legislative change.

Dates: 1947-1955
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Architect's Department / London County Council Architect's Department: planning manuals and methodologies

Planning manuals and methodologies: sample forms and notifications, 1940s and 1950s

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/D/2.4
Scope and Contents File of sample forms and notifications, for enforcement of various planning legislation, used by London County Council's Architect's Department. These forms cover the following legislation London Buildings Acts, 1930-1939 Restriction of Ribbon Development (Provision of Means of Entrance and Egress to Buildings) London Order, 1936 Thermal Insulation (Industrial Buildings)...
Dates: 1940s and 1950s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Architect's Department / London County Council Architect's Department: planning manuals and methodologies

Planning manuals and methodologies: Town and Country Planning Act circulars, 1947-1959

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/D/2.3
Scope and Contents

Percy Johnson-Marshall's incomplete file of Town and Country Planning Act, 1947 and Town and Country Planning Act, 1959 circulars published by Her Majesty's Stationary Office during his employment at London County Council. In addition there is a minute of evidence from the Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London.

Dates: 1947-1959
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Architect's Department / London County Council Architect's Department: planning manuals and methodologies

Plans: 1" to 1 mile scale Ordnance Survey plans of Greater London with marginal annotations, 1940-1949

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/C/2.2
Scope and Contents 7 printed Ordnance Survey plans (72cm x 88cm) of the Greater London Area. 4 of the plans are at . These consist of: 5 plans from the "Outline" edition at 1" to 1 mile scale: sheets London NE, London NW, London SE and London SW, and an unlabelled plan of west Greater London, 1940-1946 2 sheets at 1:2500 scale labelled Middlesex County Council - County Planning Areas North and South,...
Dates: 1940-1949
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London / Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London: plans

Plans from Coventry City Architectural and Planning Department, 1931-1956

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

Plans from Coventry City Architectural and Planning Department consists of:


  1. The Coventry No 1 Town Planning Scheme, Map No 2, 1931
  2. City and Borough of Coventry, Development Plan 1951 - town map, 1951
  3. thematic maps of central Coventry, unknown
  4. Bell Green District Centre: general layout, 4 January 1956
Dates: 1931-1956
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council / Collected reports and plansregarding Coventry's redevelopment

Plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood: Cardinal Griffin secondary school, 1950s

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.6g
Scope and Contents

4 copy architectural plans (30cm x 54cm) for Cardinal Griffin Secondary School in Lansbury, London. This was the part of the Lansbury Neighbourhood (Neighbourhood no 9) of London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney and Poplar, which became the subject of the "Live Architecture Exhibition" at the Festival of Britain, 1951.The plans consist of small scale first and second floor plans, and two elevations.

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: Lansbury Neighbourhood / Lansbury Neighbourhood: plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood