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Buildings, War Damage

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

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Comprehensive Development Areas: Bunhill Fields, 1950s

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/6
Scope and Contents

Comprehensive development areas: Bunhill Fields consists of:


  1. papers and photographs, ( 1950s )
  2. plans, ( 1950s )
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: Elephant and Castle, 1951-1956

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/5
Scope and Contents

Comprehensive development areas: Elephant and Castle consists of:


  1. assorted photographs and reports, (1955-1956)
  2. plans, (1951-c1955)
Dates: 1951-1956
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: Lewisham Clock Tower, 1950s

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/7
Scope and Contents

Comprehensive development areas: Lewisham Clock Tower consists of:


  1. papers, (7 September 1953)
  2. plans - Lewisham Clock Tower CDA, (1950s)
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, 1940-1961

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2
Scope and Contents

Comprehensive development areas: Stepney / Poplar consists of:


  1. general papers, (1940-1961)
  2. Lansbury Comprehensive Development Area, (1940s-1950s)
  3. other areas, (1950s)
  4. plans, (1946-1950s)
Dates: 1940-1961
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: Woolwich, 1950s

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/8
Scope and Contents

Comprehensive development areas: Woolwich consists of:


  1. Woolwich Industrial Estate, ( 1950s )
  2. plans - St Mary's Woolwich Redevelopment Area reused layout 1955 - with suggestions by the Borough Engineer, ( 1955 )
Dates: 1950s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas

Equinine Acrobatics, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3059
Scope and Contents

Photograph from the 16 May 1922 edition of the Daily Mirror entitled ' Equinine Acrobatics' of Prince Henry, a black hunter, performing 'his own version of the equinine trot with the expert partnership of Mr James Fillis.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

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) ...
Dates: 1940-1961
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: general papers and photographs

Lansbury Neighbourhood: Trinity Congregational Church, 1950s

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.7
Scope and Contents

Papers, plans and architectural model photographs relating to Trinity Congregational Church, constructed as as part of the Lansbury Neighbourhood of London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar. The original church at this location had been completely destroyed by bomb damage in World War II. The architects were Cecil Charles Handisyde and DR Stark

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: Lansbury Neighbourhood

Photographs of Stepney / Poplar: aerial views, 1937-1951

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.1.4c
Scope and Contents

Oblique and vertical aerial black and white photographic prints of the Stepney / Poplar area of London. The vertical photographs (20cm x 24cm) were taken between 1945-1947 and are all stamped London County Council Architect's Department Town Planning Division on the reverse. The oblique photographs (max 30cm x 38cm, min 12cm x 16cm) are by Aerofilms Ltd and show the area before and after reconstruction following the aerial bombing of the area during World War II.

Dates: 1937-1951
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: general papers and photographs / General papers: photographs of Stepney / Poplar

Photographs of Stepney / Poplar: east end 1940s, 1940s

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.1.4a
Scope and Contents

10 black and white prints (max 14.5cm x 22cm, min 11cm x 16cm) of the Poplar area in the 1940s. The location of some of the photographs is indicated on the rear. Most show individual buildings or streets, while the rest show bomb damaged and derelict sites.

Dates: 1940s
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: general papers and photographs / General papers: photographs of Stepney / Poplar

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