Postwar Reconstruction
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = PJM
Found in 163 Collections and/or Records:
Festival of Britain Exhibition: papers, 1951
File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.2a
Scope and Contents
File of papers relating to the "Live Architecture" exhibition in the Lansbury Neighbourhood of London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar which was staged by London County Council Architect's Department as part of the Festival of Britain in 1951. The exhibition showed the newly reconstructed neighbourhood and allowed public access to a number of the buildings. The file consists of: plans of the exhibition, some annotated with route plans for the walking tour;...
Dates:
1951
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: Festival of Britain Exhibition
Festival of Britain Exhibition: posters, 1951
File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.2b
Scope and Contents
2 posters (77cm x 102cm) advertising entry to, and the publicly open buildings in the reconstructed Lansbury Neighbourhood (Neighbouhood no 9) of the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar. This was organised as the "Live Architecture Exhibition" in the Festival of Britain 1951. 1 poster, in full colour, graphically displays the idea of new homes rising from the rubble of post World War II destruction. The other poster in black and green gives general...
Dates:
1951
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: Festival of Britain Exhibition
General comprehensive development areas files: general files, 1950s
File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/9.1
Scope and Contents
Set of Percy Johnson-Marshall's working files relating to the London County Council Comprehensive Development Areas. The files comprise:
file with a report on actions taken to comply with the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947; notes of planning methods and staffing requirements for individual Comprehensive Development Areas; a report of outstanding planning work for "inner areas" of London, 1950s
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Dates:
1950s
General comprehensive development areas files: plans - Administrative County of London Development Plan, 1951: areas of comprehensive development, 1951
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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/9.2
Scope and Contents
Plans of the Comprehensive development Areas designated by London County Council in the Administrative County of London Development Plan (1951) : :
No 1 - City of London, (1951)
No 2 - Stepney / Poplar, (1951)
No 3 - Bermondsey, (1951)
No 4 - South Bank, (1951)
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Dates:
1951
General Comprehensive Development Areas files: plans - Research Group Area plans, c1950
File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/9.3
Scope and Contents
3 copy plans (83cm x113cm) by the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department showing the location of London County Council administered property overdrawn on an Ordnance Survey Plan at 1:25000 scale. 1 shows the Reconstruction Areas, 1 shows housing estates with grid references and 1 shows fire stations.
Dates:
c1950
General papers: lectures concerning the reconstruction of Stepney, c1950-1954
File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.1.3
Scope and Contents
File of typescript and manuscript drafts for talks and articles concerning the redevelopment of London County Council's Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar. Most are authored by Percy Johnson-Marshall, but other authors are represented including the Architect to the Council, Sir Robert Hogg Matthew.
Dates:
c1950-1954
General papers: photographs of Stepney / Poplar, 1940-1961
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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.1.4
Scope and Contents
Photographs of London County Council Comprehensive development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar:
east end 1940s, (1940s)
east end after reconstruction, (c1955-1961)
aerial views, (1937-1951)
basic house layouts, (1956)
London County Council Housing Department visit, (c1958)
historic map of the area, (1950s)
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Dates:
1940-1961
General papers: planning reports, 1949-1958
File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.1.2
Scope and Contents
File of completed planning application reports - form TP5, submitted under the Town and Country Planning Act, ( 1947) to London County Council Architect's Department Town Planning Division. These give details of a large number of proposed developments in the Comprehensive Development Areas of City of London, Stepney / Poplar and Bermondsey. There is also an index to the applications and a complete list of...
Dates:
1949-1958
General papers: Stepney / Poplar Comprehensive Development Area programming papers, 1946-1959
File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.1.1
Scope and Contents
General files relating to London County Council Comprehensive Redevelopment Area no 2: Stepney and Poplar. The files concern research into the area as a whole, and the work schedules for the Reconstruction Areas Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department, in relation to their work in the Stepney / Poplar area. There are:
statistics for the area
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Dates:
1946-1959
Lansbury Comprehensive Development Area: East India Dock Road Neighbourhood model, 1949
File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.5a
Scope and Contents
8 black and white photographic prints (23cm x 30cm and 16cm x 36cm) showing architectural models by the Town Planning Division of London County Council Architect's Department. The models are of the East India Dock Road Neighbourhood of the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney and Poplar and is at 32 feet to 1 inch scale.
Dates:
1949
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: photographs