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Lansbury Comprehensive Development Area: Lansbury Market Square model, 1940s

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.5e
Scope and Contents

6 black and white photographic prints (21cm x 22cm) showing an architectural model commissioned by the Town Planning Division of London County Council Architect's Department. The model shows the Market Square scheme for Lansbury Neighbourhood, part of the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar at 1/16" scale. The market was designed by Sir Frederick Ernest Gibberd.

Dates: 1940s
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: photographs

Lansbury Comprehensive Development Area: Lansbury Market Square model (2), 1940s

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.5f
Scope and Contents

6 black and white photographic prints (12cm x 16cm) showing the Market Square scheme for Lansbury Neighbourhood, part of the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar, designed by Sir Frederick Ernest Gibberd. 1 photograph shows the architectural model commissioned by the Town Planning Division of London County Council Architect's Department. at 1/16" scale. The remainder of the photographs show the realised market square and some housing in the area.

Dates: 1940s
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: photographs

Lansbury Comprehensive Development Area: Lansbury model of stage 1, 1940s

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.5d
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10 black and white photographic prints (16cm x 21cm) showing an architectural model by the Town Planning Division of London County Council Architect's Department. The model shows stage 1 of the reconstruction scheme for Lansbury Neighbourhood, part of the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar at 1/32" scale. This is the area which comprised the "Live Architecture" Exhibition for the Festival of Britain in 1951.

Dates: 1940s
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: photographs

Lansbury Neighbourhood: Festival of Britain Exhibition, 1951

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.2
Scope and Contents

Papers and posters relating to ther "Live Architecture Exhibition in the Lansbury Neighbourhood (Neighbourhood no 9) of London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar. This was staged by London County Council Architect's Department as part of the Festival of Britain in 1951:


  1. papers, (1951)
  2. posters, (1951)
Dates: 1951
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: paperwork, 1950s

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.1
Scope and Contents Papers relating to the development of Lansbury, London. This was designated neighbourhood 9 in London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney and Poplar. There is a file entitled "Public buildings: N 9", which details the public buildings in the neighbourhood, including a map, some details of the building and notes of meetings concerning their development. There are also some miscellaneous loose papers which consist of: a report on Chrisp Street...
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: photographs, 1940s

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.5
Scope and Contents Photographs of architectural models for a number of the areas of the Lansbury Neighbourhood of London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar. The series consists of: East India Dock Road Neighbourhood Model, (1949) Lansbury 1st model, (1940s) Lansbury 2nd model, (1940s) Lansbury model of stage 1, (1940s) ...
Dates: 1940s
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

Letter to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from Sir Patrick Geddes, 12 January 1923

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L1167
Scope and Contents

Letter, 12 January 1923, Bombay, Patrick Geddes to Donald Tovey. Description of the planning Geddes is doing in India and Jerusalem and asking Tovey how he would like a music faculty in a University to be designed, what are his requirements, to help Geddes in his work. Holograph signed.

Dates: 12 January 1923
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Lewisham Clock Tower: plans - Lewisham Clock Tower CDA, 1950s

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/7.2
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Copy plan (47cm x 53cm) probably by the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department. This is a sketch plan of Comprehensive Development Area no 7: Lewisham Clock Tower showing development progress within the area.

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: Lewisham Clock Tower

London County Council, 1937-1968

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Identifier: PJM/LCC
Scope and Contents The papers related to London County Council consist of: committee reports and agenda, (1949-1959) public relations, (1950-1968) Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London, (1937-1960) Architect's Department, (1940s-1964) Comprehensive Development Areas, (1944-c1960) miscellaneous Development Areas,...
Dates: 1937-1968
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection

London County Council: Architect's Department, 1940s-1964

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/D
Scope and Contents

London County Council: Architect's Department consists of:


  1. Administrative County of London Development Plan, 1951, (1945-1958)
  2. planning manuals and methodologies, (1940s-1959)
  3. staffing issues, (1945-1959)
  4. general work, (1944-1964)
  5. exhibitions, (1951-1959)
  6. sociological reports, (1951-1957)
Dates: 1940s-1964
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council

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