Title & Author:

London riverside reconstruction : documents, 1942-1944.

Description:

6 items

Notes:
Includes: annotated 4-p. memorandum "Reconstruction of London riverside industrial areas" dated Aug. 14, 1942; Oct. 1942 issue of The Parthenon containing 2-p. article "Proposal for re-constructing London riverside" which reproduces the text of the memorandum with additional ill.; 2 copies (1 with annotations) of a 1944 3-p. text "Our greatest seaport, London" by Major G.B.J. Athoe, secretary of the Incorporated Association of Architects & Surveyors; clipping from the Feb. 2, 1944 London Times on the subject of London housing; 1944 draft text by A. Croad with attached signed manuscript note addressed to Major Athoe; fragment of manuscript "Let us see the River".
Text of Aug. 14, 1942 memorandum, with additional ill., also appears in Sept. 18, 1942 issue of The architect and building news as "Reconstruction of London riverside industrial areas".

Summary:

Material concerning the proposal for postwar reconstruction of the south bank of the Thames, in particular the warehouses at Bermondsey. Focuses on plan developed by A. Croad and Frank Bennett of the Ministry of Home Security.

Subject:

Reconstruction (1939-1951) England London.
City planning England London.
Reconstruction, 1939-1951 Angleterre Londres.
Buildings.
City planning.
Reconstruction (1939-1951)
Bermondsey (London, England) Buildings, structures, etc.
Thames River (England)
Tamise (Angleterre : Fleuve)
England London.
England London Bermondsey.
England Thames River.
Urban renewal Great Britain England London 1940-1950.
Warehouses Great Britain England London 1940-1950.
Industrial districts Great Britain England London 1940-1950.
Riverbank development areas Great Britain England London 1940-1950.
Urban planning Great Britain England London 1940-1950.

Form/genre:

Clippings (information artifacts)
Manuscripts (document genre)
Typescripts.

Added entries:

Athoe, G. B. J.
Athoe, G. B. J. Our greatest seaport, London.
Bennett, Frank (Frank Edgar)
Croad, A.
Great Britain. Ministry of Home Security.
Parthenon. Oct. 1942.

Holdings:

Location: Library main periodicals 219527
Call No.: W.P377
Copy: Oct. 1942 issue of The Parthenon
Status: Available

Location: Library main m fonds 219507
Call No.: NA9187.L6 L6 1942
Status: Available