Major accessions to repositories in 2003 relating to Building and Construction

Local

Barking and Dagenham Archives and Local Studies Centre

• London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, Planning Department: registers of deposited plans and building consents, material rel to postwar redevelopment in Barking and to building Dagenham Civic Centre 1899-1977

Barnsley Archive and Local Studies Department

• Oxspring Parish Council (addnl): minutes, accounts, plans and papers rel to David Wilson Houses Development 1937-2003 (A/2000)

Carmarthenshire Archive Service

• John Lloyd, builder, Carmarthen: day books, journals and trade catalogues c1850-89 (7717)

Conwy Archive Service

• Alwen Dam: visitor's book, ledger and construction photographs c1911-59 (CX146, CMaps & Plans 30, CP158)

Cumbria Record Office and Local Studies Library, Barrow

• Old Pals Building Fund, Barrow: minutes 1945-61 (BDSo 102)

Denbighshire Record Office

• R Ellis & Son Ltd, painting and decorating contractors, Ruthin: visitors' book 1883-1947 (DD/DM/1483)

Derbyshire Record Office

• Butterley Co Ltd, colliery owners, iron founders, mechanical engineers and brick manufacturers, Ripley (addnl): records incl ledgers 19th-20th cent (D5974)

Durham County Record Office

• WD & R Allison & Sons, building contractors, Whitburn: records 19th-20th cent

East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Records Service

• Dossor, consulting engineers, York: working plans and drawings 20th cent (Acc 4792)

East Sussex Record Office

• MEPC plc, property and development company: records 1818-1969 (ACC 8762)

Edinburgh City Archives

• James D Gibson, surveyor, Edinburgh: cash book 1893-1930 (Acc 630)
• George Rattray, civil engineer: project files 1950-70 (Acc 623)

Essex Record Office

• Baker & Sons, builders and undertakers, Danbury: records 1878-1977 (D/F 268)

Essex Record Office, Colchester and North-East Essex Branch

• LJ Watts Ltd, monumental masons, Colchester (addnl): records c1866-1998 (D/F 233 addl)

Glamorgan Record Office

• South Wales Institute of Engineers: minutes, accounts, corresp and lists of members 1857-1992 (D217)

Gloucestershire Record Office

• Platt & Fielding Ltd, engineers, Gloucester (addnl): minutes, order books and papers 1920-2000 (D 7338)

Gwynedd Archives, Meirionnydd Record Office

• William Parry, quarryman at Ffestiniog slate quarry: diary 1922-25 (5733)

Hampshire Record Office

• Winchester Cottage Improvement Society Ltd (addnl): minutes, accounts, registers and other records 1910-2000 (9M89W)

Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies

• Welwyn Builders Ltd, Welwyn Garden City: plans, brochures and photographs of houses being constructed at Welwyn Garden City 1920-30 (Acc 3991)

Hounslow Local Studies Service

• List of carpenter's works at a house in Turnham Green c1721-22 (110)

Isle of Wight Record Office

• Twymans, builders, Freshwater: ledgers c1902-07 (AC 2003/28)

Lancashire Record Office

• JH Richardson, builder, Lytham St Annes: diaries 1976-80 (DDX 1976 acc 9342)
• Robert, William and Thomas Fielding, builders and stonemasons, Blackpool: deeds to Layton Villa, Hoo Hill, Layton with Warbreck and land in various parts of Blackpool 1830-1921 (DDX 2394 acc 9383)
• Robert Howarth, joiner, Colne: records 1928-46 (DDX 752 acc 9281)
• Henry Trickett, builder and contractor, Crawshaw Booth: records 1922-56 (DDX 1468 acc 9443)

London Borough of Sutton Archives

• Cheam Warren Building Co: records 1912-52 (Acc 619)

Norfolk Record Office

• EJ & WN Harper, builders, Syderstone: accounts 1863-1929 (ACC 2003/78)

North East Lincolnshire Archives

• Wilkinson & Houghton Ltd, builders, Grimsby (addnl): day book 1911-13 (1047)

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office

• James Cox & Son Ltd, timber merchants, Stratford-upon-Avon: day books and wage books 1910-40 (DR 1109)

Surrey History Centre

• Dorking Brick Co Ltd, North Holmwood: accounts and other records 1933-40 (7324)
• HL Lacey (Leatherhead) Ltd, builders (addnl): records 1934-70 (7396)

Tyne and Wear Archives Service

• East Gateshead and Team Valley Trading Estate: photographs showing site under construction 1936-48 (DX1116)
• J & W Lowry Ltd, builders and contractors, Newcastle upon Tyne (addnl): cash books, private journal and ledger, file rel to renovation of Blackfriars, with Lowry family papers (DS.JWL)
• Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council (addnl): records rel to Felling town centre redevelopment scheme 1982-92 (CB.GA)
• Newcastle and Gateshead Builders Association: minutes 1891-1900 (AS.BF2/4)
• Northern Counties Builders Federation: minutes and records incl of predecessor bodies (AS.BF)

Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office

• F Rendell & Sons Ltd, builders, Devizes (addnl): minutes, corresp and ledgers 1887-1988 (3368)
• Bath Stone Quarry Museum Trust: plans 1869-1932 (3385)

Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies

• Holland Hannam & Cubitts Ltd, builders, London: financial records c1856-1967 (DX-912)

Special

Institution of Civil Engineers

• George Christian Beath: photographs of construction of the Uasin Gishu railway, Kenya c1920-29
• Charles Bernard Stone (1914-1996) engineer: papers incl material rel to Stone Committee on High Alumina cement
• Building Research Establishment: records incl research programme 1922-93
• Photographs of the re-building of London Bridge 1968-73
• Reports rel to underpinning of foundations, Winchester Cathedral

University

Bristol University Information Services: Special Collections

• Isambard Kingdom Brunel, civil engineer (addnl): Watcombe estate and family papers 1849-1904 (DM 1954)