Major accessions to repositories in 2000 relating to Architecture

Local

Aberdeen City Archives

• George Bennett Mitchell & Son, architects, Aberdeen: architectural drawings, specifications and schedules, contract and cash books, valuation reports and reports on churches under 1925 Church of Scotland Act 1904-71

Bury Archive Service

• Bury Metropolitan Borough Council Planning Department: Bury Town Hall plans 1937 (ABM)

Cambridgeshire County Record Office, Huntingdon

• Sidney Inskip Ladds (1867-1948), architect and historian of Huntingdon: papers (Acc. 4698 & 4706)

Canterbury Cathedral Archives

• Ancient Monuments Inspectorate: corresp and photographs, mainly rel to war damage in Canterbury 1932-51 (U395)

Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies

• WR Ellis, builder, Whitchurch: records, incl architects and builders plans for proerties in Hardwick, Whitchurch and Winslow c1905-55 (D/X 1489)
• Buckingham parish: service register, corresp rel to claim by vicar for payment from tithes of Kings Sutton, Northants, and designs by CMO Scott for pews and seating 1871-1927 (PR 29)

Croydon Archives Service

• Kenley parish: minutes, terrier and church plans 1870-1974 (Acc No 574)
• Stanley Halls and Technical and Trade School, Croydon: plans, elevations, designs and corresp c1902-08 (Acc No 548)

Cumbria Record Office, Kendal

• Michael Bunney, architect, Kendal (addnl): accounts, etc 1948-72 (WDB 34)

Derbyshire Record Office

• JL Bakewell, architect, Belper: records 20th cent (D5265)
• Desmond Thornhill, architect, Matlock: records 20th cent (D5189)

Essex Record Office

• Hazeleigh rectory plans and rector's accounts 1897-1920 (D/DU 1985; A10671)

Essex Record Office, Colchester and North-East Essex Branch

• Round family of Birch Hall (addnl): bill for decorating the newly constructed Birch Hall 1847 (D/DR addl; C 1141)

Gloucestershire Record Office

• HH Martyn & Co Ltd, architectural metal workers, joinery manufacturers and ship furnishers (addnl): records 20th cent (D5922 acc 8617)

Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies

• All Saints Croxley Green vicarage house plans and elevations 1875 (Acc 3537)

Hounslow Reference Library

• A Lancelot Lang, architect, Isleworth: plans and drawings 1925-35 (7742)

Lancashire Record Office

• Calderstones Hospital, Calderstone: building recording project records 2000 (DDX 2252)
• North West Civic Trust: photographs of historic buildings in Lancashire c1970-79 (DDX 2258)

London Borough of Sutton Archives

• Beddington rectory: file and architectural plans 1925-28 (Acc 536)

Oldham Local Studies & Archives

• Joseph Stott, architect: appointment diary 1875 (D-SRJS)
• Taylor, Roberts, Bowman, architects: account book, plans, negatives and photos 20th cent (D-AAT)

Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

• Birkin Haward, architect, Ipswich: plans and photographs 1946-82 (HG 406)
• Kenneth C Scarff, architect, Felixstowe: drawings and photographs 1920-55 (HG 405)

Surrey History Centre

• Byfleet Park House: deeds and plan 1884-1925 (6836)

Tameside Archive Service

• Tameside General Hospital: redevelopment plans 1983 (Acc2884)

Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives

• George Goldring, architect and surveyor, Limehouse (addnl): architectural drawings and surveys c1816-26 (TH/8938)

Trafford Local Studies

• Hale Library: plans, etc 1906 (Acc. A383)

Warrington Library, Museum and Archives Service

• Stockton Heath Library: plans, sketches and details of proposed extension 1999 (MS 2819)

Warwickshire County Record Office

• A Cave-Browne-Cave, architects, Stratford-on-Avon: corresp, plans, estimates and bills 1957-86 (CR 3583)

Wirral Archives

• Edmund Kirby & Sons, surveyors and architects, Liverpool: sale catalogues rel to the Wirral 1838-1920 (Acc1432)

Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies

• Smith, Hanley & Large, architects, Wolverhampton: architectural drawings 20th cent (DB-40)

National

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

• HA Patton & Partners, architects, Belfast: business papers (D/4257)

Special

Royal Institute of British Architects Library

• Waterhouse family, architects: architectural papers, incl papers of Alfred Waterhouse, Paul Waterhouse and Michael Waterhouse
• Sir Herbert Baker (1862-1946), architect: corresp, cuttings and general files
• John Francis Bentley, architect: design for additions to the Church of St Francis, Pottery Lane, London 1861-63
• Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983): sketch design for a geodesic dome 1972
• Sir Alexander John Gordon(1917-1999), architect: press cuttings and conference papers
• Thomas Affleck Greeves (1917-1997): collection of architectural capriccios
• Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, architect: letters (copies) to Canon Crookall rel to St Mary's Church, Isle of Man 1927, 1936
• Leeming & Leeming, architects, London: design models (2) for Admiralty and War Offices, Whitehall 1884

University

Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

• Joseph Bonomi (1796--1878), architect and Curator of Sir John Soane's Museum: further papers (Add MS 9389)

London University: Institute of Education

• Ministry of Education, Architects and Buildings Branch: photograph collection (DC/ABB)
• David Leslie Medd, architect (addnl): lectures and papers c1960-99 (DC/ME)

Oxford University: Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House

• Angus Whiteford Acworth, architect: reports, photographs and corresp rel to architecture and archives in the West Indies 1947-75 (MSS W Ind s 70)

University of Bristol Information Services: Special Collections

• Paty-Wood collection: copy book c1740-1810 (DM 1874)