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