Series 34 - Buildings


ProvenanceSir Alec Skempton

Inventory Listing

• Photocopy of report on failure of earth mound at Royal Gunpowder Factory Waltham Abbey (Building Research Station, Garston, Herts)
Buildings
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)381
Date range Dec 1941
• File of notes, articles, etc on Gothic buildings
Buildings
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)370
Date range No date
• Contents of box file entitled ‘Statics’ containing notes, photographs, correspondence, etc
Buildings
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)371
Date range c. July 1963 - c. Apr 1968
• Contents of box file entitled ‘Iron’
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Containing notes, illustrations, etc relating to various churches: St Paul’s dome; St Mark’s; iron armatures (various French buildings); medieval structural ironwork; St Peter’s dome; Italian tie bars; Greek iron, etc - notes, copies of articles, photographs, correspondence, etc

Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)372
Date range Apr 1962 - July 1962
• Contents of box file of notes, correspondence, copies of articles, etc on strength of materials 1770 – (iron manufacture and production)
Buildings
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)373
Date range 1970s
• Contents of box file entitled ‘Structural origins I’ containing manuscript text for book [published?]
Buildings
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)374
Date range No date
• Contents of box file of notes, correspondence, photographs, copies of articles, etc on structural iron 1780-1830
Buildings
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)375
Date range Mar 1959 - Oct 1964
• Contents of box file entitled ‘Iron structures 1830-1870’ containing notes, copies of articles, photographs, correspondence, etc (including files on particular buildings)
Buildings
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)376
Date range 1950s - 1970s
• File of notes, copies of articles, photographs, etc on cements and reinforced concrete
Buildings
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)377
Date range No date
• Contents of box file entitled ‘Mass concrete 1500-1780, 1780-1845’ and ‘Foundations’ 1500-1800’: notes, copies of articles, etc
Buildings
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)378
Date range No date
• File of notes, copies of articles, etc on Roman and Byzantine structures
Buildings
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)369
Date range No date
• Typescript (with MS amendments) by Skempton, ‘Settlement analysis of engineering structures’, paper delivered to Section G of the British Association at the Cambridge meeting
Buildings
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)380
Date range 1938
• Two ring binders of MS notes on fire-proofing in Chicago
Buildings
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)392
Date range No date
• File of notes on fire-proof floors
Buildings
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)382
Date range No date
• Box file of notes, copies of articles, correspondence, etc on fireproof floor columns before 1870
Buildings
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)383
Date range No date [c Jan 1959 - Aug 1960]
• File of copy articles on Golden Horn 1925; MIT building 1926; Grosse Pointe 1927; Grays Harbor paper mill 1929; Bregenz Post Office, MIT 1932
Buildings
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)384
Date range No date
• Contents of box containing files relating to iron-frame mills: Milford, Derby and Belper; Shrewsbury; Leeds; Salford, Manchester and Glasgow, etc - notes, copies of articles, drawings, correspondence, photographs, etc
Buildings
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)385
Date range July 1954 - May 1979
• File of notes, correspondence, etc, on early mills but including information on breweries
Buildings
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)386
Date range c. Aug 1956 - c. Apr 1961
• Typescript list of notable Derbyshire mills
Buildings
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)387
Date range No date
• Table of mills in Brighouse owned by the Wood family
Buildings
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)388
Date range No date
• 30 copies of letters from Charles Bage, Shrewsbury
Buildings
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)389
Date range c. Dec 1802 - c. Aug 1818
• Contents of box file of notes, copies of articles, correspondence, etc on Albion Mills
Buildings
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)390
Date range c. June 1964 - c. Nov 1970
• Contents of box file entitled ‘Chicago’ containing notes, correspondence, etc
Buildings
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)391
Date range 1950s - 1960s
• Contents of box file entitled ‘Concrete 1830-70. Reinforced concrete’: notes, copies of articles, etc
Buildings
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(IND)379
Date range No date [c 1960s]

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