Collection LCC/VA/DD - VALUATION DEPARTMENT: ARCHITECT'S DRAWINGS

32.33 linear metres

LCC/VA/DD 1889-1965 Collection 32.33 linear metres LCC , London County Council x London County Council

The London County Council's housing work was administered by the Housing and Public Health Committee. The Valuer, with the Valuation Department, was responsible for the acquisition of property and maintenance and management of the Council's dwellings.

Acquired with the records of its parent body, the London County Council.

Records of the London County Council Valuation Department, 1889-1965, comprising architect's drawings of properties owned or acquired by the Metropolitan Board of Works and passed on to the London County Council. The properties were purchased as part of schemes of work such as street improvements, bridge, tunnel and tramway construction and building housing estates. The properties were subsequently leased out. The plans were submitted to the MBW or LCC by tenants seeking approval for intended development or renovation.

Most of the plans show properties situated in Queen Victoria Street, Chelsea Embankment, Clerkenwell Road, Northumberland Avenue, Charing Cross Road, Shaftesbury Avenue, Rosebery Avenue and the Holborn and Strand areas. They generally show dwellings, shops, factories, churches, public houses, community centres, doctor's surgeries and local council offices.

Please note that a full index of these plans is available in hard copy in the LMA Information Area.

LCC/VA/DD/R: Rolled drawings; LCC/VA/DD: Plans and drawings.

Available for general access.

Copyright: City of London.
English

Fit

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

For further information on the history of the LCC please see Achievement: A Short History of the London County Council by W Eric Jackson (1965), LMA Library reference 18.0 1965, The London County Council 1938, LMA Library reference 18.7 SER 4, and The Youngest County: A description of London as a county and its public services, 1951, LMA Library reference 18.0 1951.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. April to June 2009 Western Europe UK England London Camden MBW , Metropolitan Board of Works x Metropolitan Board of Works Valuation Department , London County Council LCC , London County Council x London County Council Building design Visual materials Plans Building plans Building maintenance Construction engineering Building operations Building construction Strand Westminster Holborn Soho Clerkenwell Islington City of London Chelsea Embankment Kensington and Chelsea Northumberland Avenue City of Westminster Europe

Acquired with the records of its parent body, the London County Council.

Records of the London County Council Valuation Department, 1889-1965, comprising architect's drawings of properties owned or acquired by the Metropolitan Board of Works and passed on to the London County Council. The properties were purchased as part of schemes of work such as street improvements, bridge, tunnel and tramway construction and building housing estates. The properties were subsequently leased out. The plans were submitted to the MBW or LCC by tenants seeking approval for intended development or renovation.

Most of the plans show properties situated in Queen Victoria Street, Chelsea Embankment, Clerkenwell Road, Northumberland Avenue, Charing Cross Road, Shaftesbury Avenue, Rosebery Avenue and the Holborn and Strand areas. They generally show dwellings, shops, factories, churches, public houses, community centres, doctor's surgeries and local council offices.

Please note that a full index of these plans is available in hard copy in the LMA Information Area.

LCC/VA/DD/R: Rolled drawings; LCC/VA/DD: Plans and drawings.

Available for general access.

Copyright: City of London.

• anglais

• latin

English

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• anglais