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Postwar Reconstruction

 Subject

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

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Comprehensive Development Areas: City of London, 1947-1959

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1
Scope and Contents

Material relating to different areas of London County Council's Comprehensive Development Area no 1: City of London:


  1. general, (1947-1958)
  2. New Barbican, (c1953-1959)
  3. Saint Paul's Cathedral Precinct, (c1950-1959)
  4. Tower of London Precinct, (c1957-c1959)
  5. City of London river frontages and skylines, (1955)
Dates: 1947-1959
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas

New Barbican: redevelopment plans, 1954-1958

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.2.2
Scope and Contents 2 reports with accompanying photographs and plans concerning the redevelopment of the Barbican area, part of London County Council's Comprehensive Redevelopment Area no 1: City of London. The first; New Barbican ( 29 September 1954) is by Kadleigh, Whitfield & Horsburgh, and was commissioned by the New Barbican Committee who presented it to London County Council. This outlines a comprehensive...
Dates: 1954-1958
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: City of London / City of London: New Barbican

New Barbican: reports and the public enquiry, 1953-1959

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.2.1
Scope and Contents File of papers relating to the redevelopment of the Barbican area of London as part of London County Council's Comprehensive Development Area no 1: City of London. The file consists of a number of reports concerning the scheme by either London County Council's Architect's Department, the Corporation of London Improvements and Town Planning Committee or Chamberlin, Powell & Bon, the architects commissioned to create the scheme. There are also a number of proofs of evidence and related...
Dates: 1953-1959
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: City of London / City of London: New Barbican

Plans: Barbican "appendix" plans, 1954

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.2.5a
Scope and Contents Set of 7 copy plans relating to the Barbican Area of London, each with a red star shaped sticker giving an appendix number. The plans are: Appendix 1: "Barbican Site Plan no 1" - site plan at approximately 1:1250 scale giving details of planning permission for 27 numbered sites, 31 July 1954 Appendix 2: - "Barbican Site Sections no 2" - 3 sections across the site as marked on plan above,...
Dates: 1954
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: City of London / City of London: New Barbican / New Barbican: plans