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• Reports, notes, drawings, data, etc
Bradwell [including Berkeley]
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO334
Date range c. May 1956 - c. July 1957
• 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
• ‘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
• Italian test data (three files)
Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO326
Date range No date
• John Burland, Propping up Pisa (Royal Academy of Engineering)
Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO228
Date range Jan 1997
• 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
• 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
• Plans by Skempton
Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO225
Date range Feb 1965
• Folder of drawings
Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO224
Date range No date
• Diagramma di compressibilità
Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO223
Date range No date
• File of manuscript notes, rough drawings, etc
Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO222
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, correspondence, etc, (including fees)
Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO221
Date range July 1964 - Mar 1973
• 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
• 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
• 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
• File of test data on St Andrews Road
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO204
Date range No date
• Illustrations of Waterloo Bridge
Waterloo Bridge
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO361
Date range No date [1938]
• 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
• 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]
• 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
• 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
• Drawing - record of test pit
Bradwell [including Berkeley]
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO336
Date range Apr 1956
• RRL investigations at Barracks Lane and BL1, BL2 and BL2(a)
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO203
Date range c. July 1969
• Borehole test data (three sets, some copies)
Bradwell [including Berkeley]
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO335
Date range No date
• GWL and piezometry
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO205
Date range c. Oct 1967 - c. Dec 1969
• Borehole records
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO206
Date range c. Oct 1967 - c. Aug 1969
• Correspondence with Simon-Carves Ltd, including test data
Bradwell [including Berkeley]
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO331
Date range Feb 1956 - Apr 1957
• File of notes, correspondence, etc
Bradwell [including Berkeley]
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO332
Date range c. Aug 1956
• Loose notes, drawings, test data, etc
Bradwell [including Berkeley]
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO333
Date range c. July 1956 - c. Aug 1956
• 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
• Foundation Engineering site reports
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO202
Date range c. Feb 1957 - c. Apr 1965
• Box of glass plates
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO218
Date range No date
• Plans
St Paul's Cathedral
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO229
Date range c. 1970 - c. 1971
• Notes, correspondence, etc relating to work on Avonmouth Clay
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO212
Date range c. June 1968 - c. Oct 1969
• Correspondence, notes, etc relating to peat and land levels
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO213
Date range June 1965 - Dec 1967
• 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
• Correspondence, notes, data, etc
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO215
Date range c. Nov 1962 - c. Mar 1966
• Comparison of C14 age and historical age
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO210
Date range No date
• Notes, etc on piezometers
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO217
Date range Feb 1961 - June 1968
• Compaction corrections
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO209
Date range No date
• Plans, graphs, etc
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO219
Date range No date
• Photographs
Thames tunnel
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO243
Date range No date
• Box of transparencies
Thames tunnel
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO244
Date range No date
• Box of transparencies
Thames tunnel
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO245
Date range No date
• Plans, tables, etc
Thames tunnel
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO246
Date range No date
• Ring binder of notes, etc on sources for research
Thames tunnel
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO328
Date range No date
• Correspondence with John Haynes
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO216
Date range Dec 1967 - Mar 1968
• 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
• Correspondence, notes, etc relating to Skempton’s lecture
Thames tunnel
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO329
Date range Oct 1993 - Mar 1994
• 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
• 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
• Skempton’s report on Salisbury Cathedral foundations - appendix on bearing capacity
Salisbury Cathedral
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO234
Date range June 1983
• Plans
Salisbury Cathedral
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO235
Date range c. 1975 - c. 1982
• Loose notes, correspondence, etc, abstracted from box file
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO211
Date range c. Feb 1968 - c. Mar 1995
• 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]
• Copy typescript of Sir Charles Nicholson’s report on Salisbury Cathedral
Salisbury Cathedral
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO230
Date range Sept 1926
• Notes, etc on Thames Driftway
Thames tunnel
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO239
Date range No date
• 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
• 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
• Two documents relating to workforce
Thames tunnel
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO242
Date range 1826 - 1844
• C14 data
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO207
Date range c. Sept 1967 - c. Feb 1968
• Forams
Avonmouth
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PRO208
Date range c. Sept 1969
• 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]
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