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 View parent record
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