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Major accessions to repositories in 2015 relating to Architecture

Local

Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

  • William Ronald Trenbath & Valerie Antonia Trenbath, architects: collected personal and business papers incl plans for Warrington New Town, and photographs of housing developments c1950-1989 (D 8801)

Cumbria Archive and Local Studies Centre, Whitehaven

  • Day Cummins Ltd, architects, Cockermouth: contracts rel to developments at Hensingham and Whitehaven, photographs of Whitehaven Castle and other Whitehaven properties 1964-1999 (YDB 91)

Cumbria Archive Centre, Kendal

  • Haigh Architects, Kendal: project files 1950-2010 (WDB 161)

Essex Record Office

  • Carden & Godfrey, architects, London: plans and papers 1954-1980 (A14218)

Gloucestershire Archives

  • Kenneth Austen, architect, Cirencester: drawings of St John the Baptist church, Cirencester and another, student drawings at Cheltenham College of Art 1955-1956 (D13834)
  • Interior and estate plans rel to Blaisdon Hall 1875-1930 (D13778)

Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

  • RH & RW Clutton, chartered surveyors and land agents, East Grinstead: architects' files rel to Hampshire properties with a plan (1830) for the property of Hylton Joliffe in Petersfield 1930-1997 (56A15)

Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies

  • Franklin & Deacon, architects and surveyors: architectural drawings for various Hertfordshire properties incl public houses and factories c1900-1978 (Acc 5779)

Huntingdonshire Archives

  • Hemingford Grey parish: architectural drawings and plans 1959-2003 (5765)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

  • Leicestershire and Rutland Society of Architects: AGM minutes, council meeting minutes, yearbooks, president portraits, minutes and corresp 1872-2010 (DE8745)

Lincolnshire Archives

  • Sam Scorer (1923-2003), architect: architectural plans and papers c1952-2000 (SAM SCORER)

LiveArgyll Archives

  • Inveraray Burgh: plans rel to the restoration of Inveraray 1958-1971 (A/c 2015/16)
  • Strathclyde Building Preservation Trust: reports, corresp and photographs rel to attempts to save historic buildings in Argyll and Bute 1994-2010 (DR/1/343)

Liverpool Record Office

  • Liverpool Architectural and Archaeological Society: additional minutes and visitors' books 1848-1873 (720 LAS)

Norfolk Record Office

  • Peter Codling Architects, Norwich: roll of assorted drawings, files rel to Keswick Mill conversion; plans rel to proposed houses on St Lawrence Lane and Pottergate, records rel to private commissions; photographs and negatives 20th cent (Acc 2015/2, 2015/57, 2015/164, 2015/179)
  • Anthony Rossi, architect, Walsingham: architectural files rel to St John the Baptist Roman Catholic Cathedral, Norwich 1992-2002 (Acc 2015/187)

Northamptonshire Archives

  • Stanley Woodrow (fl 1945-1960), architect: papers and plans rel to architectural career 1945-1960 (N83)

Nottinghamshire Archives

  • Newark and Sherwood Homes: architectural drawings rel to housing scheme c1930-2000 (8725)

Perth and Kinross Council Archive

  • Playfair family of Islabank: family corresp and papers incl drawings and documents rel to the building of Islabank 18th-20th cent (15/29)
  • Bell Ingram Ltd, land agents, Perth: architects' drawings, feuing and estate plans 19th-20th cent (15/24)

Shropshire Archives

  • Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale Buildings Preservation Trust: records incl minutes, corresp, share register 1975-1996 (8966)

Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust)

  • Vernacular architecture reports research papers, including plans, initial surveys and photographs 1970-2009 (A\EAQ)

South Lanarkshire Council, Finance and Corporate Resources (Council Archives)

  • Strathclyde Building Preservation Trust: documents and photographs rel to historic buildings in South Lanarkshire 1990-2013 (F54)

Surrey History Centre

  • Sir Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe (1900-1996), architect and town planner: garden plans and models of Sutton Place, near Guildford, produced for Stanley J Seeger c1980-1985 (9517)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bradford

  • Bradford Society of Architects and Surveyors: additional records 1972-2008 (125D77)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Kirklees

  • Kirklees Historic Buildings Trust: council of management minutes, records of membership, reports and annual financial statements, with project files for Wellhouse Farm Barn, Mirfield and Newhouse Place, Huddersfield 1984-2015 (WYK1812)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds

  • Norman & Dawbarn Ltd, architects and engineers, London: plans for Leeds Bradford Airport c1960-1969 (LC/PLANNING)

Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

  • Roger Leigh (1925-1997), architect and sculptor: photographs, sketches, diaries, photographs and plans 1941-1997 (4311)

Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service

  • Pritchard & Godwin, architects, Kidderminster: letter books 1912-1930 (15832)

National

Historic England Archive

  • Phillip Griffiths (b 1926), local government officer: postcard collection rel to nonconformist churches in England 1903-1973 (PGC01)
  • Philippa Lewis (fl 1976-2015), writer, photographer, picture editor and researcher: slides and transparencies rel to architectural details, buildings and gardens throughout England c1980-2015 (EFC01)
  • Central Electricity Generating Board: photographs rel to Fawley Power Station, Hampshire 1962-1993 (FPS01)

Jersey Archive

  • Research papers of Jeremy Percival rel to Arthur Grayson, architect 'A Catalogue of his work on Jersey' 2015 (JA/2693)

Parliamentary Archives

  • Charles Barry (1823-1900), architect: personal papers incl corresp with A W N Pugin, pamphlets rel to the Pugin-Barry controversy and papers rel to other projects incl the laying out of Trafalgar Square 1844-1940 (BAR/31)
  • Edward Middleton Barry (1830-1880), architect: watercolour drawings rel to the construction of the Palace of Westminister c1865 (HAR/4)
  • John Hardman & Co Ltd, artists in stained glass: working drawings by John Hardman Powell rel to the construction of the Palace of Westminster c1855 (HAR/4)

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives

  • Lord Chamberlain of the Household: plans of Cambridge Cottage, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew c1905 (QX 15-0022)

Special

Mills Archive

  • Paul S Jarvis (1926-2004), engineer: photographs, corresp, documents and architectural drawings relating to UK mills, mainly in Kent, incl 35mm slide collection, casework files for work for the SPAB Mills Section, material relating to the Kent Mills Group and publication drafts late 20th cent (JARV)
  • Oldland Mill Trust, Keymer: historical material and records of predecessor organisations, architectural drawings 1927-2000 (OLDM)

Royal Institute of British Architects

  • John Bancroft (1928-2011), architect: architectural drawings, photographs and papers c1960-1999
  • Cyril Ernest Walter Boreham (1904-1959), architect: drawings c1925-1929
  • John Brandon-Jones (1908-1999), architect: research and lecture notes, drawings c1950-1990
  • Thomas Pitt (1737-1793), 1st Baron Camelford: drawings rel to Boconnoc House, Cornwall c1775
  • Arne Emil Jacobsen (1902-1971), architect: drawings, job files, reports rel to St Catherine's College, Oxford c1960-1969
  • Lt Joseph George Johnson (1912-1989), architect: testimonies drawn while a prisoner of war and models c1940-1945
  • Henning Larson (1925-2013), architect: misc drawings (c400) c1960-1970
  • Charles Cowles-Voysey (1889-1981), architect: drawings (74) c1910-1940
  • Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857-1941), architect: drawings, photographs and other items c1890-1940
  • Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905), architect: sketchbooks 1853-1899
  • Sam Webb (fl 1968), architect: papers rel to investigations of the collapse of Ronan Point, West Ham, London including photographs and models 1968

York Minster Archives

  • Peter Gibson (fl 1945-2010), stained glass artist: collection of slides of stained glass (2015/8)

Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society

  • John William Walker (1859-1953), antiquary: floor plans of Wakefield Cathedral and St Mary's church and brass rubbings of monuments in Yorkshire churches early 20th cent (MS1982 & MS1978)

University

Durham University Library, Special Collections

  • Hospital of God, Greatham: survey book belonging to James Averre, surveyor 1818 (ADD)

Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections

  • Charles Lovett Gill (1880-1960), architect: sketch books and photo albums 1904-1941 (Coll-1603)
  • Andrew Monro Lang (d 2000), architect: papers 1990-1998 (Coll-1697)

Heritage Quay - University of Huddersfield Archives

  • Albert Booth (fl 1970-1990), architect and photographer: photographic prints and negatives of buildings and people, West Yorkshire c1970-1999 (BOT)
  • Peter Stead (1922-1999), architect: administrative papers incl project documentation, lecture notes, corresp, diaries, notebooks, address books, press clippings and printed material 20th cent (PST)

University of Reading: Special Collections

  • DEGW, architecture and design practice, London: architects' project reports 20th cent (MS 5558)

University of Westminster Archives

  • Thomas Gordon Cullen (1914-1994), architect and urban designer: papers incl corresp, drawings, prints, sketches and photographic material 1914-1994 (UWA CUL)