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’
Buildings

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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