Major accessions to repositories in 2022 relating to Building and Construction

Local

Bath Record Office

• Bath City Waterworks: photographs, maps, plans, statistical registers, ephemera c1900-2000 (312)

Derbyshire Record Office

• Robert Jones & Son, painters and decorators, Duffield: clients accounts ledgers, and advertisement [c1920-1929] 1910-1938 (D8426)
• Derbyshire County Council: records rel to occupancy of industrial estates owned by the council, strategic papers rel to redesign of Records Management Service, Dronfield and District Adult Education Centre, Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site Community Arts Project, Director of Public Health Annual Reports, death of HM Queen Elizabeth II; Florence Shipley (Adult) Care Home, Heanor, Human Resources; Historic Building Recordings and some Derbyshire Council Children's Homes c1959-2022 (DCC)
• Solomon Page, hairdresser, Glossop: miscellaneous business receipts c1893-1896 (D8435)

Glamorgan Archives

• Associated British Ports (ABP): photo archive of Associated British Ports incl hard drive containing digitised content and index 20th cent (DABP)
• Associated Dairies Ltd: legal and planning papers rel to the development of a shopping precint in Dowlais: Units 1-4, Dowlais Shopping Precint, Merthyr Tydfil 20th cent (D1891)
• Lan Gas Coal Company, Bryncethin: company records incl property deeds, colliery inspection report, Articles of Association, corresp, accounts and flooding report 20th cent (D1866)

Manchester Archives and Local Studies

• Manchester and Yorkshire Umbrella Manufacturers' Association: meeting minutes 1940-1952 (2022/96)

Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

• Atkins Ltd, consulting engineers: photographs of various buildings and sites in Plymouth city centre c1980-1990 (4443)

West Dunbartonshire Council Archive Services: Clydebank Library

• Clydebank Housing Scheme: building plans 1925-1937 (ACCN2022/06)

West Sussex Record Office

• Baybridge Canal Co: records 1825-1875 (20166)

Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

• Joseph Gye, builder and blacksmith: business ledgers 1888-1948 (2872B)

Special

Mills Archive

• Owlsworth IJP Ltd., millwrights and building restorers, Reading: millwrighting drawings and other records rel to work on wind and watermills 1990s-2000s (OIJP)

University

Sussex University Library Special Collections

• Ron Mitchell (fl1960s), site manager for Longleys and worker on the construction of the University of Sussex campus: collection of photographs with some presscuttings and a digital copy of film taken by Ron in c.1966, rel to the construction of the University, particularly the construction of the Meeting House c1960 (SxMs213)