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Tower of London (London, England)

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2 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

Papers of John Augustus Bonney, and Bonney family papers

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-307
Scope and Contents The collection comprises research notes compiled by Bonney - begun while he was himself imprisoned in the Tower - from named source materials, as well as graffiti he recorded from locations throughout the building. It includes manuscript draft and final versions of chapters for Bonney’s unpublished history of the Tower of London, which recounts the Tower’s story through case histories of its prisoners.The collection also contains a diary kept by Bonney during his imprisonment; a...
Dates: 1794-1836
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections