Showing 21 results

Plan by James Brindley, civil engineer, of a proposed canal between Monkey Island and Isleworth.

Papers and maps of George James Brown, land agent and surveyor, relating to premises in Ealing, Hanworth, Hampton and South Mimms, 1894-1900; including report, with plan, presenting case for damages to value of Mr. Wood's estate east of Hangar Lane, Ealing, caused by construction of Ealing and South Harrow Railway, 1899; papers relating to a dispute between The New River Company and The Gye Process Fresh Foods Co. Ltd over the purchase of land in Hanworth, with plan of the disputed premises, 1899-1900; particulars, plan and illustrations of building land for sale on the Marling Park Estate, Hampton, 1900; and Ordnance Survey maps, with annotations.

Soil surveys for a number of buildings and sites in London, 1971-1984; project files, 1987-1988, containing plans, drawings, site surveys, elevations, tenders, contracts and notes for a number of buildings including Kilmonie School, Settle Street School, Raines Tertiary College, Eliot Bank School, Fairlawn School, Tewkesbury Estate School, Jewish Free School, Camden, Templars School, County Hall boiler-house and calorifiers, Durrington Road and Courage Industrial Site; remedial works and conditions surveys for sites including Yeading Green Estate, Pilgrim Estate, Copley Close Estate, Hanwell Estate, Islip Manor Estate, Northolt Park Estate and Ruislip Gardens Estate, 1970-1988; electrical and mechanical condition surveys for various locations, 1970-1988.

Personal property records of Sir William Clay, including conveyance to Thames Valley Railway Company of land in Teddington, 1865; conveyances to South Western Railway, 1868 and 1929; conveyance by Merritts Contractors Ltd to Metropolitan Housing Corporation Ltd, 1929; and deeds of covenant for houses in Wellington Gardens, Teddington, 1951.

Records of Douglas Ritchie Limited, construction company, including papers relating to the acquisition of the Company by Flowers Brewery, accounts and annual returns, and correspondence relating to planning and building.

Records of J W Falkner and Sons Limited, 1893-1982. This collection consists of administrative material including office files and correspondence (1902-1963); financial records including ledgers, cash books and accounts (1893-1964); and plans and files relating to the various commissions the company undertook (1893-1968).

Share certificates in the Grand Surrey Canal (numbers 1513-1522), belonging to Daniel Birkett, Hatton Garden, 1813.

Records of Harry Neal Limited, building and engineering contractor, 1937-1957, including files relating to building projects worked on by the company including:

• 1/3 Princes Gate

  • 160 Shaftsbury Avenue
  • 5 Portland Place
  • 16 Berkeley Square
  • Grosvenor Square
  • Saint Pancras Way Housing Scheme
  • Oxford Street
  • 117 Baker Street
  • 31 Montagu Square
  • Brompton Road
  • BBC building at 1 Portland Place
  • BBC telephones
  • 11 and 12 Mount Street
  • Dunster House.

  Also office files, financial accounts and file relating to builders accidents.

Records of Heseltine, Powell and Company, stockbrokers, including a register of clients, clients stock ledgers, correspondence, diaries and financial material. Some of the records relate to the mining industry, and to the funding and development of railroads in America. There are also papers regarding the loss of stock certificates on the S.S. Titanic.

Records of Higgs and Hill Limited, builders, and of subsidiary or merged companies, 1868-1978. The records are largely of financial nature, but do include other administrative material and contract information. There is a particularly good run of tender books for the period 1906-1965, detailing all the jobs for which Higgs and Hill tendered, regardless of whether or not they won the contract.

Records of Holliday and Greenwood Limited, building contractors, 1903-1909, comprising three items relating to the construction and opening of the Victoria and Albert Museum, including a framed print of the building.

Records of Holliday and Greenwood Limited, building contractors, 1901-1978. This collection consists of a general file compiled by G Holliday to record contracts, a paper by G Holliday entitled "The Apprentice Master Scheme in the Borough of Brentford and Chiswick, 1947-1950" and a series of photographs recording various buildings worked on by the company.

Records of John Mowlem and Company Ltd, and subsidiary companies, 1830-1985; including articles of association; minutes; reports; prospectuses; financial ledgers and accounts; records of work done; works order books; inventories; letter books; staff records including wage books; property registers; photographs; awards; shareholder registers and seal registers. Also copy of The History of John Mowlem and Company, volumes 1 and 2, by F Baines.

Subsidiary companies whose records are found in this collection:
John Mowlem and Company Limited U.K. Construction Division
John Mowlem and Company Limited, Guernsey
John Mowlem and Company Limited, Southampton
Mowlem (Africa) Limited
Mowlem (Building) Limited
Mowlem (Scotland) Limited
Mowlem Computer Grid Limited
Mowlem International Division
The Artistic Blind Company Limited
The Cement Supply Company Limited (later called Constructional Services Limited)
Glasgow Stockholders Trust Limited
Grosvenor Engineering Services Limited
Edmund Nuttall, Sons And Company and John Mowlem And Company (Joint) Limited
Nuttall Mowlem Brand and Abboud (Near East) Limited
E. Thomas and Company Limited
Webber and Corben Limited
Improved Wood Pavement and Company Limited (now called Mowlem Construction (Plant Hire) Limited)
Alfred Booth and Co Limited
Booth Concrete Limited
C Evans and Sons Limited
Dixon Building Equipment Limited
Eatons Ladders Limited
Edendal Properties Limited
Ellis Richards Limited
F Parker and Co Limited
Freehold Improvements Limited
Glasgow Stockholders Trust Plc
Gravity Ladders and Randall Limited
Grosvenor Structures Limited
Hire Shops Limited
Johnsons Ladders (Woodworks) Limited
Lomount Construction Limited
Mining and Geophysical Limited
Parcar Utilities Limited
Pierhead Limited
Property Investments Cambridge Limited
Redhill Bodybuilding Industries Limited
Scaffolding (Great Britain) Limited
Sgb Building Equipment Limited
Sgb Canada Limited
Sgb Group Limited
Showex Limited
Soil Mechanics Foundations Limited
Tickner and Emmerton Limited
Thrasyllus Unit Construction Company Limited
Wc Youngman Limited
Welham Plant Limited
Youngman Forktrucks Limited

Papers of the Manchester Ship Canal Co, comprising mainly of printed papers, some with marginalia, as in the report of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce on the 'excessive charges' of that port, 1879. Other material includes a detailed analysis of the cost of transit within the region, with a projected estimate of the gains a ship canal would bring, 1885; a copy of the initial bill to authorise the building of the canal, with promoters' case and petitions against, of the same date, as well as maps and plans of the line to be taken by the proposed cut. Copies of numerous bills presented before Parliament on behalf of the company, 1907 to 1956, some with petitions and evidence, are also to be found, together with a copy of the Act authorizing the Manchester City Corporation to lend the company money, 1891, and a report of the special committee appointed by the city to examine the affairs of the company, 1893. There are also some loose papers, including deeds of sale and conveyance, contracts, grants of easement; a register of mortgages, 1885; a shareholders' address book, 1915; a shareholders' prospectus, 1885; and arising out of litigation concerning the company, a number of reports of proceedings in the courts, 1891 to 1927. A collection of pamphlets, 1882, one or two items pertaining to the Bridgewater estates, a user's handbook of instructions, 1894, and a rule book, 1894, have also survived.

Records of the Metropolitan Railway Company, including minutes of Board meetings; General meetings; Finance Committee meetings; Electric Traction Committee meetings; Law and Lands Committee; Parliamentary, Law and Lands Committee meetings; Stores Committee meetings; Traffic Committee meetings; Officer's Monthly Conferences; reports; agreements; registers of accidents and special occurrences; guard books of circulars; books of diagrams; instructions to signalmen; petitions from users of the line; papers of the General Manager relating to various matters including construction of stations and line improvements, daily operations and personnel management; and publications.

Records relating to the Paddington to Wapping Canal, comprising letters applying for stock, 1802; 27 sheets recording a canvass of persons affected asking them whether they were for or against a canal or a canal and railway; and bills of expenses in connexion with the above.

Records of the London Passenger Transport Board, 1867-1919, comprising annotated plans and Ordnance Survey maps of railway lines. Stations, railway lines and certain other buildings have been coloured.

Plans for the Northern and Southern Railway from Staines to Uxbridge and Harefield, 1845; plans for a projected railway through Acton, Old Brentford, Hounslow, Bedfont, Stanwell and Staines, Isleworth and Twickenham; book of reference of the Windsor, Staines and South Western Railway, 1847. Also assorted sales catalogues for live and dead stock, farm stock, growing crops, corn, furniture, bricks, 1850-1908.

Records of Reader Brothers, builders, 1895-1980. The collection consists of three main types of record: There is administrative material which includes both the 'formal' records of Reader Brothers (Builders) Limited, such as the Memorandum and Articles of Association, Minutes of meetings, Registers of Members and records relating to shares; as well as various accounts ledgers, cash, petty cash and wages books, diaries and notebooks.

Secondly there are files, planning applications and other legal documents - some with plans attached.

Then there are books and other printed material related to the building trade and lastly there are plans and drawing of housing projects undertaken by the company.

Records of the Spencer-Philip family; primarily papers relating to property transactions, including extracts from court rolls, abstracts of title, leases, plans and rents, for premises in the Manor of Stepney (Whitechapel, Stepney and Mile End) and in Essex. Also building leases and agreements relating to the King David's Fort Estate, St George's in the East, and papers and plans concerning construction of London and Blackwall railway through that estate; an Act of Parliament relating to roads in St Leonard Shoreditch; and family certificates (baptisms, marriages, burials). The collection includes a manorial custumal for the Manor of Stepney, 1587.

Railway plans, consisting of two plans of Waterloo Station, the exterior and defaults of a window, and a plan of the proposed widening of Charing Cross Bridge.