Postwar Reconstruction
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = PJM
Found in 163 Collections and/or Records:
Plans: Elephant and Castle suggested block development and perspective sketches, 4 June 1951
File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/5.2.3
Scope and Contents
2 copy and 1 manuscript architectural perspective drawings (53cm x 84cm) by the Reconstruction Areas Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department. The copy drawings are identical and show a number of alternative suggestions for block developments around the roundabouts at Comprehensive Development Area no 5: Elephant and Castle. These drawings are at a small scale. The manuscript drawing shows the shopping concourse at a larger scale.
Dates:
4 June 1951
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:
- The Coventry No 1 Town Planning Scheme, Map No 2, 1931
- City and Borough of Coventry, Development Plan 1951 - town map, 1951
- thematic maps of central Coventry, unknown
- Bell Green District Centre: general layout, 4 January 1956
Dates:
1931-1956
Plans: geographical themed plans of Stepney / Poplar Comprehensive Development Area, December 1954
File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.4.5
Scope and Contents
Set of 11 numbered copy plans (33cm x 81cm) by Tom Bigwood of the Comprehensive Development Area No 2: Stepney / Poplar. These are themed sketch plans covering issues such as historical growth of the area, war damage, housing patterns, geographical areas and public transport at 6" to 1 mile scale.
Dates:
December 1954
Plans: Government Centre South Bank Hotel, c1953
File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/4.8.13
Scope and Contents
2 copy plans (65cm x 101cm) by the Reconstruction Areas Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department, showing the proposed government offices which were part of the South Bank Permanent Development plans. The plans are at 88' to 1" scale. The first comprises a layout plan, elevations and sections. The second is hand coloured and comprises a layout plan and an isometric sketch with a margin note concerning the number of personnel which...
Dates:
c1953
Plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood: East India Dock Road Neighbourhood, c1955-1958
Item
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.6k
Scope and Contents
Manuscript bird's-eye perspective drawing (69cm x 104cm) by the Reconstruction Areas Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department, showing the layout of an area which is probably East India Dock Road Neighbourhood of the Stepney / Poplar Comprehensive Development Area in London. The drawing is at approximately 1:2500 scale and is in felt-tip pen and coloured pencil on transparency, with the River [Thames] in the foreground.
Dates:
c1955-1958
Found in:
University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections
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The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection
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London County Council
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London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas
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Comprehensive Development Areas: Stepney / Poplar
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Stepney / Poplar: Lansbury Neighbourhood
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Lansbury Neighbourhood: plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood
Plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood: East India Dock Road Neighbourhood - area and house plans, 1949-1950s
File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.6c
Scope and Contents
Area and house plans by the London County Council Architect's Department for the East India Dock Road neighbourhood of Lansbury. This was part of London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar. The plans consist of:
2 copy plans laid over Ordnance Survey maps of the East India Dock Road area at 1:1250 scale
copy plan (29cm x 65cm) of the East India Dock Road...
Dates:
1949-1950s
Found in:
University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections
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The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection
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London County Council
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London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas
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Comprehensive Development Areas: Stepney / Poplar
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Stepney / Poplar: Lansbury Neighbourhood
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Lansbury Neighbourhood: plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood
Plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood: Lansbury Market, 1958-1959
File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.6d
Scope and Contents
2 copy plans (67cm x 103cm) by the North East Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department. The plans show 2 different layouts for the market place in Lansbury Neighbourhood (Neighbourhood no 9). There is also a small scale elevation by the market's designer Sir Frederick Ernest Gibberd. 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...
Dates:
1958-1959
Found in:
University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections
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The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection
/
London County Council
/
London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas
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Comprehensive Development Areas: Stepney / Poplar
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Stepney / Poplar: Lansbury Neighbourhood
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Lansbury Neighbourhood: plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood
Plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood: layout plans, c1953-1955
File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.6a
Scope and Contents
4 copy plans by the Reconstruction Areas Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department showing layout plans for the Lansbury Neighbourhood (Neighbourhood no 9) of London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney and Poplar. This became the subject of the "Live Architecture Exhibition" at the Festival of Britain, 1951. 3 of the plans (45cm x 57cm) are reduced from original 1:2500 scale plans and show different proposed layouts. 2 of...
Dates:
c1953-1955
Found in:
University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections
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The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection
/
London County Council
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London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas
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Comprehensive Development Areas: Stepney / Poplar
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Stepney / Poplar: Lansbury Neighbourhood
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Lansbury Neighbourhood: plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood
Plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood: London County Council Calcutta Street site, 1952
File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.6f
Scope and Contents
3 copy plans with hand colouring in paint and pencil (66cm x 98cm) by the Town Planning Division of the London County Council Architect's Department, showing a planned estate of flats at Calcutta Street in Stepney, London. These plans were presented to the London County Council Housing and Town Planning Joint Development Committee) on 16 January 1952 and their Town Planning Committee on 11 February 1952, and consist of: a location plan at 1:2500 scale and a colour coded location plan, at 1"...
Dates:
1952
Found in:
University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections
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The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection
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London County Council
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London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas
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Comprehensive Development Areas: Stepney / Poplar
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Stepney / Poplar: Lansbury Neighbourhood
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Lansbury Neighbourhood: plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood
Plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood: London County Council reconstruction area in Stepney / Poplar - neighbourhood no 9, c1949-1955
File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.6b
Scope and Contents
3 copy plans (54cm x 121cm) by the Town Planning Division of the London County Council Architect's Department showing details of planned redevelopment in Lansbury (Neighbourhood no 9). 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 plans are by the Ordnance Survey at 88' to 1" scale. They show the original street pattern of the area, and are...
Dates:
c1949-1955
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
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Lansbury Neighbourhood: plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood