IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4002
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: BUILDING RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT
Date(s): 1939-1945
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.53 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Department for Scientific and Industrial Research | Building Research Board
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Building Research Board was founded in 1919 under the Government's Department for Scientific and Industrial Research, as one of a number of Research Boards set up after the First World War.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Files of the Building Research Board relating to the repair of damaged buildings during and after the Second World War, principally concerning London.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
LMA/4002-1: Bomb damage files; LMA/4002-2: General papers.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to these records 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:
Records deposited in January and May 1997.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
These records complement records of the London County Council, in particular the photograph collection and bomb damage maps.
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: June to August 2010.