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Postwar Reconstruction

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Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = PJM

Found in 163 Collections and/or Records:

Plans: Stepney / Poplar Comprehensive Development Area redevelopment key map, 25 March 1953

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.4.6
Scope and Contents

4 copy plans (67cm x 104cm) by the Reconstruction Areas Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department. These plans are variants of the redevelopment key map for Comprehensive Development Area No 2: Stepney / Poplar. The plans show all the housing areas in the neighbourhood units in Stepney and Poplar with colour coded land use zoning. The final plan shows colour coded development progress. The plans are hand coloured.

Dates: 25 March 1953
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: plans

Plans: Stepney / Poplar neighbourhood diagram, c1955-1957

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.4.2
Scope and Contents

4 copy plans (56cm x115cm) by the Reconstruction Areas Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department. These comprise: a hand coloured sketch map entitled "6" map showing all the neighbourhood units in the Boroughs of Stepney and Poplar" and 3 variants of a sketch plan, showing information on land use and reconstruction progress across the neighbourhoods, at 1:50 000 scale.

Dates: c1955-1957
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: plans

Plans: Stepney / Poplar perspective drawing, April 1950

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.4.10
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Manuscript perspective architectural drawing (29cm x 34cm) by J Newel Lewis of Norman & Dawbarn Ltd of a street corner in proposed housing development in Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar.

Dates: April 1950
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: plans

Plans: Stepney / Poplar reconstruction area and first period operations, 1949-1951

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.4.8
Scope and Contents 2 copy plans (69cm x 102cm) by the Reconstruction Areas Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department. The plans cover the whole of Comprehensive Development Area No. 2: Stepney / Poplar. 1 plan shows areas of early development for the each of the neighbourhood units in the area, along with the names of the planners responsible for the individual neighbourhoods, at 12" to 1 mile scale. The second plan shows areas designated for 1st period operations at...
Dates: 1949-1951
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: plans

Plans: Stepney / Poplar transport sketch, 1950s

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.4.9
Scope and Contents

Mounted small scale Ordnance Survey plan (49cm x 88cm) showing the east end of London. The plan has pencil annotations relating to notable buildings and red pencil annotations, possibly indicating a bus route.

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: plans

Plans: Upstream offices, 1953-1956

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/4.8.11
Scope and Contents 8 copy plans (69cm x 101cm) showing the planned development of Upstream Offices on the South Bank, London. This office tower block was part of the planned South Bank Permanent Development and was later occupied by the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies. 6 of the plans are by the Reconstruction Areas Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department. 1 plan comprises site plans and sections for alternative positions of the blocks at 1" to 88'...
Dates: 1953-1956
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: South Bank / South Bank: plans

Redevelopment of Coventry - general material, 1939-1945

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/CCC/A/1
Scope and Contents

Redevelopment of Coventry - general material consists of:


  1. general papers, c1945
  2. general photographs, 1939
  3. press clippings and articles, 1940-1944
  4. plans,c1941-1943
Dates: 1939-1945
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council / Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department

Redevelopment of Coventry - general papers, c1945

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Identifier: PJM/CCC/A/1/1
Scope and Contents File of papers relating to the redevelopment of Coventry. Includes an application under section I of the Town and Country Planning Act ( 1944) for the redevelopment of Coventry city centre, proceedings of the local public enquiry concerning this application for 25 June 1945 and captions to some missing photographs. There are also 2 pamphlets concerning Coventry's redevelopment and a contemporary street...
Dates: c1945
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council / Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department / Redevelopment of Coventry - general material

Redevelopment of Coventry - general photographs, 1939

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Identifier: PJM/CCC/A/1/2
Scope and Contents Redevelopment of Coventry - general photographs consists of: 22 black and white photographic prints (9cm x 11.5cm) showing the first architectural model for the proposed redevelopment of the city centre. It was built by members of the Coventry City Architect's Department, under the direction of the City Architect Donald Gibson, during their spare time in, 1939 4 black and white...
Dates: 1939
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council / Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department / Redevelopment of Coventry - general material

Redevelopment of Coventry - press clippings and articles, 1940-1944

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Identifier: PJM/CCC/A/1/3
Scope and Contents

Collection of press clippings and articles concerning the redevelopment of Coventry. These appeared in a number of newspapers and journals including the Indian Forces newspaper "Contact", the "Coventry Herald" and "Illustrated". Authors include Sir Donald Evelyn Edward Gibson and Frank Tilsley

Dates: 1940-1944
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / Coventry City Council / Papers, photographs and plans from Coventry City Architect's Department / Redevelopment of Coventry - general material

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