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

Found in 180 Collections and/or Records:

Comprehensive Development Areas: general comprehensive development areas files, 1950s

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/9
Scope and Contents

Comprehensive Development Areas: general comprehensive development areas files consists of:


  1. general files, (1950s)
  2. plans - Administrative County of London Development Plan, 1951: areas of comprehensive development, (1951)
  3. plans - Research Group Area plans, (c1950)
Dates: 1950s

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

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

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

Development plan: papers, 1945-1956

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/D/1.1.1
Scope and Contents File of typescript and printed papers relating to the publication of the Administrative County of London Development Plan, ( 1951) . The papers include proofs of several early drafts, a press release and a typescript report concerning its' preparation. The file also contains a number of committee minutes concerning the plan and flyers for the public information exhibition "London, the next 20...
Dates: 1945-1956

Development plan: "Transport planning and neighbourhood rationalization", 1950s

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/D/1.1.3
Scope and Contents Hand-made folder entitled "Transport planning and neighbourhood rationalization" of mixed manuscript and printed maps (31cm x 42cm) concerning transport planning. The manuscript plans are drawn on transparency in ink and coloured pencil. Some are overlaid on Ordnance Survey plans. The plans cover the geographical process of transport planning and analyses London and neighbourhoods within London in terms of theoretical geographical models and the ...
Dates: 1950s

Elephant and Castle: assorted photographs and reports, 1955-1956

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/5.1
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous material related to London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 5: Elephant and Castle. The file contains: a draft report on the area, with accompanying correspondence; 4 black and white photographic prints (21cm x 30cm) of an architectural model of the area; a redevelopment brochure and an article published in the Municipal Journal concerning the proposed development.

Dates: 1955-1956

Elephant and Castle: drawings, 1955-1956

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/5.2.5
Scope and Contents

5 copy perspective drawings (24cm x 37cm) of the proposed development at London County Council's Comprehensive Development Area no 5: Elephant and Castle. The drawings show the pedestrianised shopping areas and the multi-purpose office, shopping and entertainment development. The drawings are hand coloured. 2 are the same copy with differing hand colouring.

Dates: 1955-1956

Exhibitions: exhibition papers and photographs, 1951-1959

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/D/5.1
Scope and Contents File of preparation notes, papers and photographs relating to exhibitions which the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's department either organised or participated in. Exhibitions include: "Stepney Housing Progress" by the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney, 13-30 April 1959 "Construction and Reconstruction of Towns, 1945-1957" at the International Union of...
Dates: 1951-1959

Exhibitions: exhibition poster and plan, c1951

 Item
Identifier: PJM/LCC/D/5.2
Scope and Contents Poster (37cm x 44cm) advertising the exhibition, hosted by London County Council Architect's Department, "Planning and Building in NE London" to be held in County Hall, London from 9-23 October c1951. The poster is printed in blue and white with a map of a suburban street layout, at approximately 1:2500 scale, as a background image. Floor plan (50cm x 84cm) by Sir Robert Hogg Matthew, of an exhibition layout at 1/8" to 1' scale. This is probably a plan for "Planning and Building...
Dates: c1951