SURVEYOR'S DEPARTMENT: ADMINISTRATION
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : COL/SVD/AD |
Held at | : London Metropolitan Archives Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma › |
Full title | : SURVEYOR'S DEPARTMENT: ADMINISTRATION |
Date(s) | : 1679-1974 |
Level of description | : Collection
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Extent | : 3.5 linear metres |
Name of creator(s) | : Corporation of London |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
The City Surveyor is responsible for the construction and management of various City non-residential properties, including those properties belonging to Bridge House estates and City Lands estates.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Administrative records of the Surveyor's Department, Corporation of London, including papers on Bridge House assignments, 1937-1972; reports to various Committees, 1941-1962; site histories, providing details of architects, costs, chronology of the planning process and progress of the construction of the buildings, [1951-1964]; day book providing costs of acquisition of properties, 1947; compulsory purchase order day book, 1960s-1970s; redevelopment units record book, 1950s; valuation book for properties purchased under the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947; compulsory purchase orders (highways), 1971-1974; compulsory purchase orders, 1965-1968; details of Bridge House rentals and leases, [1921-1956]; City and counties rentals, [19410s-1956]; markets rentals, [1941-1964]; City Lands rentals, [1932-1956]; tenders for contracts, 1958-1972; orders for payment to John Oliver and Robert Hooke, City Surveyors, 1679-1680 and article Robert Hooke's Work as Surveyor for the City of London in the aftermath of the Great Five. Part One: Robert Hooke's First Surveys for the City of London by M.A.R. Cooper, 1997.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
In sections according to catalogue.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright: City of London
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Corporation of London Records Office
Allied Materials
Related material:
See also COL/PL: plans, COL/PLD/TP: Planning Department: Town Planning, CLA/007: Bridge House Estates and CLA/008: City Lands Estates.
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Rules or conventions:
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.
Date(s) of descriptions:
February 2009
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