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School Buildings

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

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

Other committees: Full Council, Parks Committee and Roads Committee etc, 1949-1959

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

Small selection of reports to miscellaneous London County Council Committees. These include papers for a full Council meeting held on 3 March 1959, and papers relating to the Roads Committee, the Finance Committee, the Advisory Committee on the Control of Construction and Buildings in London, the General Purposes Committee and the Parks Committee.

Dates: 1949-1959

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

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

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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

Plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood: secondary school plans, 1950s

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.6m
Scope and Contents

3 copy architectural plans (39cm x 68cm) for a secondary school in Lansbury, London. This was the part of 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, 1951The plans consist of a small scale plan and elevation for a school.

Dates: 1950s

Plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood: Susan Lawrence Primary School, 1950s

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.6h
Scope and Contents 3 copy perspective drawings (26cm x 45cm) for a Susan Lawrence Primary School and Elizabeth Lansbury Nursery School, Lansbury, London (now amalgamated as the Lansbury Lawrence Primary School). This was the part 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 drawings show different angles of this school, designed by Yorke, Rosenberg & Mardall....
Dates: 1950s

Plans relating to Willesden Borough Council, 1936-1938

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Identifier: PJM/WBC/B
Scope and Contents Plans relating to Willesden Borough Council consists of: Percy Road School, Kilburn, proposed alterations and additions (6 plans), 1938 nursery school at Curzon Crescent, NW10 (4 plans), 1937 house at Ridge, Herts (2 plans), 1937 Municipal Hospital: extension to existing nurses home (1 plan), 1938 Wesley Road School: proposed gymnasium...
Dates: 1936-1938

Plans: St Paul's Cathedral Precinct - south side, 1956

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.3.2d
Scope and Contents

2 copy architectural plans (69cm x 102cm) and (38cm x 51cm) by the Reconstruction Areas Group of the London County Council's Architect's Department Town Planning Division showing large scale plans for 2 different levels of the new precinct at St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London. The plans are hand coloured and feature a shopping area, the choir school and car parking.

Dates: 1956

Press: press releases, 1950-1962

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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