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

Found in 755 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
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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
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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
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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

Plans: Westminster Precinct, 1950s-1964

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/F/2.2
Scope and Contents Manuscript and copy architectural plans (59cm x 78cm) probably by the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department showing plans for the redevelopment of Westminster Precinct in London. There are 3 copies of each plan: 1 manuscript on transparancy, 1 transparancy and 1 paper. The plans are numbered 4 and 5 at 1:1250 scale. Plan 4 shows a plan of the buildings in the area, and plan 5 shows a section. In addition there is a printed location plan (20cm x 33cm) of the...
Dates: 1950s-1964
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London county Council: miscellaneous development areas / Miscellaneous development areas: plans

Postcard to Hubert James Foss from Thomas Harold Hunt Craxton, c1940

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2096
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Postcard, [n.d], London, Harold Craxton to Hubert Foss. Thanking Foss for a card and wishing him a good New Year. Holograph signed.

Dates: c1940
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Postcard to Mary Gardner Grierson from Sir Donald Francis Tovey, 27 May 1936

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L286
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Postcard, 27 May 1936, London , Donald Tovey to Mary Grierson. Informing Grierson that a piece by Vaughn Williams and a piece by Falstaff should not be played together. Holograph signed.

Dates: 27 May 1936
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Postcard to Robert Calverley Trevelyan from Charles de Sousy Ricketts, c1932

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2420
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Postcard, [n.d] London, Charles Ricketts to Robert Trevelyan. Advising Trevelyan on the staging of the opera, suggesting that Tovey and Hedmount should be more economical. Holograph signed.

Dates: c1932
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence