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School Buildings

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

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

"A school for boys and girls", 1934-1935

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Identifier: PJM/UOL/A/4/4
Scope and Contents

Architectural drawings (68cm x 100cm) by Percy Johnson-Marshall, undertaken whilst a fourth year student at the Liverpool School of Architecture, for a project entitled "a school for boys and girls". There is one site plan and one sheet of plans, elevations and axonometric drawings for a school chapel. These are drawn in pencil with water-colour wash and ink highlighting. In addition there is a sheet of research information and drawings on the subject of elementary schools.

Dates: 1934-1935

Association of Building Technicians: Executive Committee and General Council (3), 1949-1951

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Identifier: PJM/ABT/A/6
Scope and Contents Agenda, papers, minutes and correspondence for the Association of Building Technicians (ABT) Executive Committee, General Council and accounts . Also includes papers relating to the ABT Benevolent Funds Committee, the ABT Education Committee and a number of reports: Draft outline for ABT booklet on comprehensive schools The effect of the cuts on school buildings in London (, and a...
Dates: 1949-1951

Committee reports and agenda: other committees, 1949-1959

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/A/2
Scope and Contents

Committee reports and agenda: other committees consists of:


  1. Housing Committee and Housing Committee Development and Management Sub-Committee, (1952-1958)
  2. Education Committee (Further Education) Sub-committee and Schools Planning Sub-committee, (1957-1959)
  3. Full Council, Parks Committee and Roads Committee etc, (1949-1959)
Dates: 1949-1959

Gladstone Park School, 1937

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Identifier: PJM/WBC/B/15
Scope and Contents

5 copy architectural plans (72cm x 128cm) for a proposed new school at Gladstone Park, Willesden. These include plans, sections and elevations at 8 feet to 1 inch scale, marked drawings number 1 and 2. There are also drawings numbers 5, 9 and 15 which comprise details of the the playshed and paddling pool at 8 feet to 1 inch scale and the main entrance, and assembly hall all at 0.5 inch to 1 foot scale. The architect for project was the borough engineer F Wilkinson.

Dates: 1937

Lansbury Neighbourhood: plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood, c1949-1950s

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.6
Scope and Contents Plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood (Neighbourhood no 9) of the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar: layout plans, ( c1953-1955 ) London County Council reconstruction area in Stepney / Poplar - Neighbourhood no 9, ( c1949-1955 ) East India Dock Road Neighbourhood - area and house plans, ( 1949-1950s ) Lansbury Market,...
Dates: c1949-1950s

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

London County Council: photographs, 1940s-1950s

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/G
Scope and Contents Photographs consists of: office blocks, 1950s Gipsy Road, Lambeth, 1940s housing development models and archways, 1950s the south prospect of London, 1666, 1950s architectural models, 1950s architectural models (2), 1958-1961 miscellaneous, 1950s County of London Plan, 1940s ...
Dates: 1940s-1950s

Papers relating to Willesden Borough Council, 1930-1939

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Identifier: PJM/WBC/A
Scope and Contents Papers relating to Willesden Borough Council consists of: a general conditions of contracts pamphlet, 1930 tender papers for Kensal Rise Junior School, 1938 specifications of works for Chamberlayne Road Senior School, Disraeli Road Baths, stables / stores at Cambridge Mews East, caretaker's cottage at Health Centre no 3, house and office for the superintendent at...
Dates: 1930-1939

Percy Road School, Kilburn, proposed alterations and additions, 1938

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Identifier: PJM/WBC/B/1
Scope and Contents

Set of 6 copy architectural plans (65cm x 95cm) at a variety of scales, of planned alterations to Percy Road School at Kilburn in Willesden Borough. The plans show sections, plans and details. Sheets 2 and 4-8 of a set are present. The proposed alterations were drafted by Percy Johnson-Marshall. The architect of the school was the borough education architect, F Wayman Brown.

Dates: 1938

Photographs: London County Council schools, 1950s

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/G/10
Scope and Contents

42 black and white photographic prints (20cm x 24cm) from the London County Council Architect's Department collection. This set of photographs includes interior and exterior shots of schools designed by London County Council Architect's Department and photographs of architectural models of the schools prior to construction.

Dates: 1950s