Series 3 - Foundations


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ProvenanceSir Alec Skempton
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PRO360 BRS report (copy typescript), ‘Investigation on samples of London clay from beneath pier 4 of the new Waterloo Bridge’
Waterloo Bridge
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO360
Date range July 1938
Inventory Identifier SKEM00209 Box Number 44 Series 3
PRO361 Illustrations of Waterloo Bridge
Waterloo Bridge
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO361
Date range No date [1938]
Inventory Identifier SKEM00210 Box Number 44 Series 3
PRO357 BRS report (copy typescript), ‘Investigation of a stores building at Kippen, near Stirling, and an analysis of the revised foundation designs’
Kippen
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO357
Date range Aug 1940
Inventory Identifier SKEM00211 Box Number 44 Series 3
PRO352 BRS report (typescript), ‘The Failure of a Retaining Wall at Kensal Green’
Kensal Green
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO352
Date range No date [1942]
Inventory Identifier SKEM00212 Box Number 44 Series 3
PRO353 BRS report (typescript), ‘Note on soil tests carried out on samples of clay from the site of the LM & S Railway retaining wall failure at Kensal Green
Kensal Green
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO353
Date range Nov 1935
Inventory Identifier SKEM00213 Box Number 44 Series 3
PRO201 Typescript article by R Murray, ‘An investigation of the stability and settlement of a trial embankment on the proposed extension to the Birmingham-Exeter motorway (M5)’, Earthworks & Foundations Section, Road Research Laboratory, Crowthorne
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO201
Date range 1967
Inventory Identifier SKEM00214 Box Number 29 Series 3
PRO202 Foundation Engineering site reports
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO202
Date range c. Feb 1957 - c. Apr 1965
Inventory Identifier SKEM00215 Box Number 29 Series 3
PRO203 RRL investigations at Barracks Lane and BL1, BL2 and BL2(a)
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO203
Date range c. July 1969
Inventory Identifier SKEM00216 Box Number 29 Series 3
PRO204 File of test data on St Andrews Road
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO204
Date range No date
Inventory Identifier SKEM00217 Box Number 30 Series 3
PRO205 GWL and piezometry
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO205
Date range c. Oct 1967 - c. Dec 1969
Inventory Identifier SKEM00218 Box Number 30 Series 3
PRO206 Borehole records
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO206
Date range c. Oct 1967 - c. Aug 1969
Inventory Identifier SKEM00219 Box Number 30 Series 3
PRO207 C14 data
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO207
Date range c. Sept 1967 - c. Feb 1968
Inventory Identifier SKEM00220 Box Number 30 Series 3
PRO208 Forams
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO208
Date range c. Sept 1969
Inventory Identifier SKEM00221 Box Number 30 Series 3
PRO209 Compaction corrections
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO209
Date range No date
Inventory Identifier SKEM00222 Box Number 30 Series 3
PRO210 Comparison of C14 age and historical age
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO210
Date range No date
Inventory Identifier SKEM00223 Box Number 30 Series 3
PRO211 Loose notes, correspondence, etc, abstracted from box file
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO211
Date range c. Feb 1968 - c. Mar 1995
Inventory Identifier SKEM00224 Box Number 30 Series 3
PRO212 Notes, correspondence, etc relating to work on Avonmouth Clay
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO212
Date range c. June 1968 - c. Oct 1969
Inventory Identifier SKEM00225 Box Number 30 Series 3
PRO213 Correspondence, notes, etc relating to peat and land levels
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO213
Date range June 1965 - Dec 1967
Inventory Identifier SKEM00226 Box Number 30 Series 3
PRO214 File of correspondence, notes, photographs, etc relating to tests for Imperial Smelting Corporation Ltd
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO214
Date range c. Sept 1960 - c. Feb 1968
Inventory Identifier SKEM00227 Box Number 30 Series 3
PRO215 Correspondence, notes, data, etc
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO215
Date range c. Nov 1962 - c. Mar 1966
Inventory Identifier SKEM00228 Box Number 31 Series 3
PRO216 Correspondence with John Haynes
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO216
Date range Dec 1967 - Mar 1968
Inventory Identifier SKEM00229 Box Number 31 Series 3
PRO217 Notes, etc on piezometers
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO217
Date range Feb 1961 - June 1968
Inventory Identifier SKEM00230 Box Number 31 Series 3
PRO218 Box of glass plates
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO218
Date range No date
Inventory Identifier SKEM00231 Box Number 31 Series 3
PRO219 Plans, graphs, etc
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO219
Date range No date
Inventory Identifier SKEM00232 Box Number * Series 3
PRO331 Correspondence with Simon-Carves Ltd, including test data
Bradwell [including Berkeley]
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO331
Date range Feb 1956 - Apr 1957
Inventory Identifier SKEM00233 Box Number 43 Series 3
PRO332 File of notes, correspondence, etc
Bradwell [including Berkeley]
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO332
Date range c. Aug 1956
Inventory Identifier SKEM00234 Box Number 43 Series 3
PRO333 Loose notes, drawings, test data, etc
Bradwell [including Berkeley]
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO333
Date range c. July 1956 - c. Aug 1956
Inventory Identifier SKEM00235 Box Number 43 Series 3
PRO334 Reports, notes, drawings, data, etc
Bradwell [including Berkeley]
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO334
Date range c. May 1956 - c. July 1957
Inventory Identifier SKEM00236 Box Number 43 Series 3
PRO335 Borehole test data (three sets, some copies)
Bradwell [including Berkeley]
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO335
Date range No date
Inventory Identifier SKEM00237 Box Number 43 Series 3
PRO336 Drawing - record of test pit
Bradwell [including Berkeley]
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO336
Date range Apr 1956
Inventory Identifier SKEM00238 Box Number 44 Series 3
PRO337 Berkeley proposed nuclear power station. Report on soil investigation and reactor foundation design, with two letters
Bradwell [including Berkeley]
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO337
Date range 13 Aug 1956
Inventory Identifier SKEM00239 Box Number 44 Series 3
PRO220 Contents of box file: meeting notes (in Italian); copy of article, ‘Nuovi argomenti a conferma della possibilità di arrestare il progressivo incremento della padenza della torre di Pisa’; drawings; correspondence; reports; photographs; notes on history
Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO220
Date range Jan 1957 - May 1966
Inventory Identifier SKEM00240 Box Number 31-32 Series 3
PRO221 Folder of notes, correspondence, etc, (including fees)
Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO221
Date range July 1964 - Mar 1973
Inventory Identifier SKEM00241 Box Number 32 Series 3
PRO222 File of manuscript notes, rough drawings, etc
Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO222
Date range No date
Inventory Identifier SKEM00242 Box Number 32 Series 3
PRO223 Diagramma di compressibilità
Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO223
Date range No date
Inventory Identifier SKEM00243 Box Number 32 Series 3
PRO224 Folder of drawings
Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO224
Date range No date
Inventory Identifier SKEM00244 Box Number * Series 3
PRO225 Plans by Skempton
Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO225
Date range Feb 1965
Inventory Identifier SKEM00245 Box Number * Series 3
PRO226 Technical appraisal of Italian Report of Commission for strengthening Leaning Tower of Pisa by Andrew S Barton, Mar 1973, with bundle of drawings, sent to Skempton by editor of Construction News
Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO226
Date range 26 Mar 1973
Inventory Identifier SKEM00246 Box Number * Series 3
PRO227 Riceche e studi su la torre pendente di Pisa...(3 vols), Ministry of Public Works, Italy, 1971, with loose papers including correspondence
Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO227
Date range c. 1991 - c. 1994
Inventory Identifier SKEM00247 Box Number * Series 3
PRO228 John Burland, Propping up Pisa (Royal Academy of Engineering)
Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO228
Date range Jan 1997
Inventory Identifier SKEM00248 Box Number 32 Series 3
PRO326 Italian test data (three files)
Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO326
Date range No date
Inventory Identifier SKEM00249 Box Number 42 Series 3
PRO327 ‘Remarks to the inclination of the tower of Pisa’, Aachen
Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO327
Date range Jan 1965
Inventory Identifier SKEM00250 Box Number 43 Series 3
PRO313 Printed report by Sir Alexander Gibb & Ralph Freeman, St Paul’s Cathedral. Investigation of foundations and subsoil
St Paul's Cathedral
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO313
Date range Nov 1933
Inventory Identifier SKEM00251 Box Number 41 Series 3
PRO229 Plans
St Paul's Cathedral
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO229
Date range c. 1970 - c. 1971
Inventory Identifier SKEM00252 Box Number * Series 3
PRO230 Copy typescript of Sir Charles Nicholson’s report on Salisbury Cathedral
Salisbury Cathedral
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO230
Date range Sept 1926
Inventory Identifier SKEM00254 Box Number 32 Series 3
PRO231 Copy of typescript report on the structural condition of Salisbury Cathedral, by Ralph Freeman
Salisbury Cathedral
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO231
Date range Nov 1937
Inventory Identifier SKEM00255 Box Number 32 Series 3
PRO232 Copy typescript of observations on Ralph Freeman’s report by W A Forsyth
Salisbury Cathedral
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO232
Date range Dec 1937
Inventory Identifier SKEM00256 Box Number 32 Series 3
PRO233 Contents of box file [344]
Salisbury Cathedral

Plans and associated notes; copy MS of report, 31 Aug 1668; earthquake data; loose notes and drawings; correspondence; report on site investigation; report on condition of structure of spire and tower; progress report on structural matters

Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO233
Date range Dec 1971 - Dec 1983
Inventory Identifier SKEM00257 Box Number 33 Series 3
PRO234 Skempton’s report on Salisbury Cathedral foundations - appendix on bearing capacity
Salisbury Cathedral
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO234
Date range June 1983
Inventory Identifier SKEM00258 Box Number 32 Series 3
PRO235 Plans
Salisbury Cathedral
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO235
Date range c. 1975 - c. 1982
Inventory Identifier SKEM00259 Box Number 33 Series 3
PRO236 Folder of notes, offprints of articles, correspondence, copies of documents,etc
Thames tunnel
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO236
Date range No date [c 1973]
Inventory Identifier SKEM00260 Box Number 34 Series 3
PRO237 Folder of notes, offprints of articles, correspondence, copies of documents, etc
Thames tunnel
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO237
Date range No date [c 1973]
Inventory Identifier SKEM00261 Box Number 34 Series 3
PRO238 File of notes, copies of articles, etc relating to geology of tunnel, Rotherhithe Tunnel and Thames Driftway
Thames tunnel
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO238
Date range No date
Inventory Identifier SKEM00262 Box Number 35 Series 3
PRO239 Notes, etc on Thames Driftway
Thames tunnel
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO239
Date range No date
Inventory Identifier SKEM00263 Box Number 35 Series 3
PRO240 Notes, etc relating to events leading to first irruption on 18 May 1827
Thames tunnel
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO240
Date range No date
Inventory Identifier SKEM00264 Box Number 35 Series 3
PRO241 File of notes, copies of documents, etc relating to site investigations, 1824-8
Thames tunnel
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO241
Date range No date
Inventory Identifier SKEM00265 Box Number 35 Series 3
PRO242 Two documents relating to workforce
Thames tunnel
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO242
Date range 1826 - 1844
Inventory Identifier SKEM00266 Box Number 35 Series 3
PRO243 Photographs
Thames tunnel
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO243
Date range No date
Inventory Identifier SKEM00267 Box Number 35 Series 3
PRO244 Box of transparencies
Thames tunnel
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO244
Date range No date
Inventory Identifier SKEM00268 Box Number 35 Series 3
PRO245 Box of transparencies
Thames tunnel
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO245
Date range No date
Inventory Identifier SKEM00269 Box Number 35 Series 3
PRO246 Plans, tables, etc
Thames tunnel
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO246
Date range No date
Inventory Identifier SKEM00270 Box Number 35 Series 3
PRO328 Ring binder of notes, etc on sources for research
Thames tunnel
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO328
Date range No date
Inventory Identifier SKEM00271 Box Number 43 Series 3
PRO329 Correspondence, notes, etc relating to Skempton’s lecture
Thames tunnel
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO329
Date range Oct 1993 - Mar 1994
Inventory Identifier SKEM00272 Box Number 43 Series 3

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