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HARRY NEAL LIMITED {BUILDING AND ENGINEERING CONTRACTORS}


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/2614

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: HARRY NEAL LIMITED {BUILDING AND ENGINEERING CONTRACTORS}

Date(s): 1937-1957

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2.83 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Harry Neal Ltd | building and engineering contractor

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Harry Neal Limited is a building and engineering contractor, founded in 1886. Buildings constructed by the company include the Westminster Bank, Watford, 1929; the Gaumont Cinema, Kilburn, 1936; the Berkeley Hotel, Knightsbridge, 1936; the Natural History Museum extension, 1976; the new Chapter House at Saint Albans Cathedral, 1980 and restoration work at Home House, Kenwood House and Somerset House. Their main office is on Georgiana Street, Camden.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

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.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

These records are uncatalogued. Please contact a member of staff for information regarding access.

Conditions governing access:

Restricted access: please see staff

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright rests with the depositor

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received in 1988

ALLIED MATERIALS

Publication note:

"Harry Neal Ltd: A Family of Builders" by Martin Gaskell, 1989

DESCRIPTION NOTES 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: July to October 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Builders | Construction industry personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Building construction | Building operations | Construction engineering
Buildings | Architecture
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Construction industry | Industry
Engineers | Scientists | Scientific personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Financial records | Documents | Information sources
Company archives
Engineering personnel

Personal names

Corporate names
Harry Neal Ltd | building and engineering contractor

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