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• File of notes on civil engineering projects, entitled ‘Working lists’ [for biographical dictionary?]
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)9
Date range No date
• Copy of estimate for work on canal by Jessop
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)220
Date range 31 Jan 1801
• Card index with details of civil engineers
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)17
Date range No date
• Bundle of revised drafts, etc, for biographical dictionary
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)16
Date range No date
• Two files of completed typescripts for biographical dictionary
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)15
Date range No date
• Box file containing notes for Bibliography of Civil Engineers, including minutes of Institution of Civil Engineers archives panel, minutes of editorial board meetings and correspondence
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)14
Date range c. June 1994 - c. July 1999
• Box file containing notes for Bibliography of Civil Engineers, including minutes of Institution of Civil Engineers archives panel, minutes of editorial board meetings and correspondence
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)13
Date range c. June 1994 - c. July 1999
• File containing extracts from Engineer and Civil Engineer and notes
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)12
Date range No date
• Ring binders of notes, copies of articles, etc related to civil engineers, arranged alphabetically and with individual files on James Brindley, William Chapman, William Jessop, John Rennie, John Smeaton, Robert Stephenson and Thomas Telford
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)19-38
Date range No date
• Facsimile copy of list of members, presidents and treasurers of the Society of Civil Engineers (Smeatonian Society), 1771 - 1893
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)10
Date range 1893
• Contents of box file containing notes, copies of articles, slides, correspondence, etc relating to members of Smeatonian Society, for Skempton’s paper on duo-centenary of the Society
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)39
Date range Apr 1971 - Dec 1971
• Typescript lists of engineers, etc active before 1830, for biographical dictionary
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)8
Date range Dec 1997 - Oct 1999
• Printed extract from dictionary, labelled ‘sample mss layout for BDCE’
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)7
Date range No date
• Typescript of A bibliographical dictionary of civil engineers in Great Britain and Ireland, vol 1: 1500 - 1830 [ring binder]
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)6
Date range No date
• Typescript of A bibliographical dictionary of civil engineers in Great Britain and Ireland, vol 1: 1500 - 1830 [ring binder]
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)5
Date range No date
• Typescript of A bibliographical dictionary of civil engineers in Great Britain and Ireland, vol 1: 1500 - 1830 [ring binder]
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)4
Date range No date
• Box file labelled ‘BDCE Drafts’
Engineers, etc

Typescript notes for bibliographic dictionary; manuscript notes relating to dictionary; typescript of article entitled ‘The practice of civil engineering 1500-1830’; copy of Phew Newsletter [Panel for Historical Engineering Works], no 91, containing obituary of Skempton

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)3
Date range No date [Sept 2001]
• Contents of box file entitled ‘Completed MSS’: notes on members of the Smeatonian Society
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)2
Date range No date
• Letter from Edward Dristelkamp, with typescript of ‘Richard Turner and the Palm House at Kew Gardens’
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)169
Date range 27 Apr 1983
• Copy of bibliography of biographical material contained in Civil engineer and architect’s journal, 1837-38, 1840-56, vols 1, 3-19, compiled by Mary Boyd
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)11
Date range No date
• Contents of box file (notes, correspondence, copies of articles and documents, photographs, etc) relating to various engineers
Engineers, etc

Sir John Moore, Samuel Fortrey, George Barnes, Robert Burton, Gabriel Elliott, Edmund Welch, Mark Le Pla, Ralph Peirson, Richard Russell, Nathaniel Browne, Anthony Hammond, Robert Castell, Alexander Blake, John Grundy, George Carleton, - Ingelbert, John Hunt, Richard Atkyns, William Haiwarde, Sir Clement Edmondes, John Hexhame, Ralph Agas, Andrewes Burrell, Charles Cole, Humphrey Bradley, Francis Russell, John Morton

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)48
Date range c. Sept 1996 - c. May 1998
• Contents of box file (notes, correspondence, copies of articles and documents, photographs, etc) relating to various engineers
Engineers, etc

John and Thomas Dyson, Pinkerton family, Sir Edward Banks, Hugh McIntosh, Thomas and John Hughes, William Bough, John Mills, William Mackenzie, Thomas Baylis, George Vickers, James Spedding, James King, Andrews Jelfe, Samuel Tufnell, Thomas Gayfere, Thomas Nicholson, William Gibb, John King

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)57
Date range c. July 1974 - c. Feb 1998
• Extracts from new Dictionary of National Biography relating to engineers
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)56
Date range No date
• Typed list of railway engineers
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)55
Date range No date
• Alphabetical list of evidence given by various engineers to the House of Lords
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)54
Date range No date
• Contents of box file (notes, correspondence, copies of articles and documents, photographs, etc) relating to various engineers
Engineers, etc

Jesse Ramsden, Troughton family, Edward Nairne, George Adams, F W and William Simms, Dolland family, Heinrich Wild, William Cary, Benjamin Cole, Benjamin Martin, W, S & Thomas Jones, etc

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)53
Date range No date
• Contents of box file (notes, correspondence, copies of articles and documents, photographs, etc) relating to various engineers
Engineers, etc

Reuben Burrow, Olinthus Gregory, Martin Clare, John Theophilus Desaguliers, John Robison, Charles Hutton, Mudge family, Charles Green, John Hollins, William Wales, H P Hollis, William Bayly, William Roy, Isaac Dalby, Thomas Yeakell, William Gardner, Joseph Lindley, Thomas Colby; Ordnance Survey; Geodetic surveys

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)52
Date range No date
• Contents of box file (notes, correspondence, copies of articles and documents, photographs, etc) relating to various engineers
Engineers, etc

Karl Terzaghi, Wilfrid Airy, - Leygue, E P Goodrich, J A Jamieson, George Wilson, - Parnell, - Poncelet, - Le Blanc, C H Gregory, - Hosking, - Thomson, W J M Rankine, J C Trantwine, Sir Charles Lyell, H C Sorby, - Frontard, - Forshheimer, J Boussinesq, miscellaneous

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)51
Date range No date
• Expanding wallet containing notes, copies of articles, etc relating to various engineers
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)18
Date range No date
• Contents of box file (notes, correspondence, copies of articles and documents, photographs, etc) relating to various engineers
Engineers, etc

Edward Wright, Sir Hugh Myddleton, Matthew and Edmund Colthurst, Edward Pond, John Reynolds, John Blagrave, Sir Thomas Fitch, John Fitch, Sir Hugh Cholmley, William Leybourne, Richard Shortgrave, Robert Hooke, Peter Morris

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)49
Date range c. Jan 1998 - c. Mar 1998
• Family tree of Troughton family, [c 1716-1848]
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)166
Date range No date
• Contents of box file (notes, correspondence, copies of articles and documents, photographs, etc) relating to various engineers
Engineers, etc

Joseph Whidbey, James Golborne, Sir Thomas Hyde Page, Joseph Huddart, Charles Hampden Turner and William Cotton, Goodrich family, Samuel Bentham, Peter Ewart, James Cockshutt, Jean-Louis Barrallier

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)47
Date range No date
• Contents of box file (notes, correspondence, copies of articles and documents, photographs, etc) relating to various engineers
Engineers, etc

Thomas Telford, John Gibb, Joseph Mitchell, John Provis, Samuel Fowls, Hamilton Hulton, William Swansborough, John and Alexander Easton, John Duncombe, James Donaldson, Thomas Casebourne, George Brown, Matthew and James Davidson, Charles Atherton, W A Provis, Henry Welch, John Simpson, Thomas Rhodes and Henry Renton, James Potter, John Hall, William Hazledine, James Jones, John McKerlie, George May, James Mills, John Mitchell, John Telford, John Wilson

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)46
Date range c. Sept 1977 - c. July 2000
• Contents of box file (notes, correspondence, copies of articles and documents, photographs, etc) relating to various engineers [numbered PSB 005.001-033]
Engineers, etc

Henry Ashley (2 different) and Joseph Hunt, Thomas and George Atkinson, John Clark, Richard Ellison, Sir Edward Ford, John Glynn, James Griggs, John Hadley, John Hore, Richard Hurd, Stephen Leach, - Lenny, Benjamin Lewis, Henry Mill, James and Joshua Mitchell, William Ockenden, William Palmer, Robert Pownall, Thomas Robinson, William Sandys, John Smith (2 different), Arnold Spencer, Ferninando Stratford, Thomas Surbey, John Tompson, John Trew, Sir Richard Weston, Daniel Wigmore, Andrew Yarranton

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)45
Date range c. Feb 1953 - c. Oct 1998, No date
• Contents of box file (notes, correspondence, copies of articles and documents, photographs, etc) relating to various engineers [numbered PSB 004.001-010]
Engineers, etc

William Black, Thomas Fruin, Golborne family, Rev Henry Greene, Gott family, William Ireson, Joseph Nickalls, Major Henry Watson, Graham Wilkinson, Thomas Yeoman

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)44
Date range c. Nov 1972 - c. Apr 1998
• Contents of box file (notes, correspondence, copies of articles and documents, photographs, etc) relating to various engineers [numbered PSB 003.001-032]
Engineers, etc

Henry Berry, Robert Cooper, John Desmaretz, Thomas Delaval, John Druery, William Etheridge, Edmund Dummer, James Fawcett, John Foster, William Green, John Harrap, Bernard and Jesse Hartley, William Markwick, William Lellam, Thomas Morris, Jonathan Pickernell, John Powsey, Thomas Preston, John Reynolds, Benjamin Robins, Joseph Robson, Edward Rubic, John Rudyard, Shout family, Thomas Steers, John Thomas, Isaac Thompson and Mark Burleigh, William Vincent, Justly Watson, John Wells, Stephen West, John Wooler

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)43
Date range c. May 1974 - c. May 1999
• Contents of box file (notes, correspondence, copies of articles and documents, photographs, etc) relating to various engineers [numbered PSB 002.001-025]
Engineers, etc

James Barnes, Thomas Bradley, James Brindley, Nicholas and Thomas Brown, Samuel Bull, William Cartwright, Joseph Clowes, William Crosley junior, Dadford family, Fletcher family, Robert Fulton, Hugh Henshall, John Hustler, John Longbotham, Archibald Millar, Thomas Morris, John Phillips, Joseph Priestley, Thomas Sheasby, - Simcox, Charles Vallancey, John Varley, Samuel and William Weston, Robert Whitworth

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)42
Date range c. June 1971 - c. Jan 1996
• Contents of box file (notes, correspondence, copies of articles and documents, photographs, etc) relating to various engineers [numbered PSB 001.001-038]
Engineers, etc

Samuel Allam, Col John Armstrong, Peter Bateson, Anthony Bower, Andrew Browne, William Cole, Daniel Coppin, James Creassey, William Dodson, Richard Dunthorne, John Dyson, William Elstobb, Langley Edwards, George Forster, Samuel Foster, Edward Hare, Thomas and James Hogard, John Hudson, Samuel Jones (2 different), George Kelk, Nathaniel Kinderley, John Leaford, George Maxwell, Joseph Page, Thomas Pear, Capt John Perry, Humphrey Smith, James and John Scribo, Joseph Thackray, Thomas Tofield, Thomas Tompson, Sigismund Trafford, William Walton, Wing family

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)41
Date range c. Oct 1972 - c. Feb 2000
• MS notes on members of the Smeatonian Society (1771 – 1947) giving biographical details
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)40
Date range No date
• Contents of box file (notes, correspondence, copies of articles and documents, photographs, etc) relating to: Frost family, Chater family, Hughes family
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)50
Date range c. Nov 1968 - c. Jan 1993
• Typescript entitled ‘Rennie names’
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)136
Date range No date
• Contents of box file of notes, copies of documents and articles, correspondence, etc relating to John Smeaton – works, Eddystone [lighthouse], London Bridge, mills, dams, sluices, fall, pipe and channel flow and notches
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)145
Date range c. Feb 1979 - c. Apr 1999
• Transcripts of John Smeaton’s ‘letters received’, vol 15, Mar – Dec 1779, in the Sutro Library, San Francisco, transcribed by A P Woolrich
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)144
Date range 1985
• Copy of A P Woolrich, ‘John Farey and the Smeaton MSS’
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)143
Date range Nov 1983
• MS notes – ‘Smeaton’s associates’
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)142
Date range No date
• Box file of notes, correspondence, copies of articles, photographs, etc on Smeaton
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)141
Date range c. Oct 1971 - c. Sept 1983
• Photocopy of sale catalogue of John Rennie’s library, 1829
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)140
Date range No date
• Photocopy of sale catalogue of John Rennie’s library, 1829
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)139
Date range No date
• Contents of box file labelled ‘Albion Mills papers. Troughton’ – Ms and typescript of article, correspondence, photographs, etc [also refers to Samuel Wyatt]
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)168
Date range c. Jan 1972 - c. June 1973
• Letter from J G Moher, enclosing an introductory chapter of a case study on John Rennie
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)137
Date range Sept 1984
• Correspondence with Tyne and Wear Museums Service about the Smeaton bicentenary
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)148
Date range July 1990 - Sept 1990
• Contents of box file of notes, correspondence, copies of documents and articles, etc on John Rennie and his family
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)135
Date range c. Jan 1973 - c. June 2000
• Family tree of Rennie family
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)134
Date range No date
• File of notes, copies of articles, etc on John Phillips
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)133
Date range No date [c Sept 1981]
• Photocopy of will of James Phillips, 1 Feb 1804, supplied by Public Record Office, and last pages of wills of John Holmes, 1794, and John Pinkerton, 1809
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)132
Date range No date
• Biographical information on Thomas Payne, 1824-80
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)131
Date range No date
• Typescript biography of Sir Thomas Hyde Page [for biographical dictionary]
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)130
Date range No date
• Typescript of chapter 6, ‘Mylne as a Professional Man’, from Roger J Woodley’s PhD’s thesis on Robert Mylne
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)129
Date range 1998
• Photocopy of article on Hugh McIntosh by unidentified author (acknowledges Skempton)
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)128
Date range No date
• Photocopy of letter from John Rennie, 26 Oct 1802, relating to the Royal Canal
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)138
Date range No date
• Typescript, ‘Telford drawings, plans, etc’
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)156
Date range No date
• Contents of box file (notes, copies of articles and documents, etc) relating to: John Smith, William Matthews, Christopher Pinchbeck, John Monk, John Whitehurst, John Jardin, Thomas Walford, Thomas Martin, Edward Gascoigne [instrument makers, etc]
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)60
Date range No date
• Two box files labelled ‘Telford letters’: 8 typescripts of Telford’s letters [1782 - 1845]; also letters relating to John Telford and Matthew Davidson to his sons
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)165
Date range No date
• Envelope of correspondence, etc relating to Skempton’s contributions to Les ingénieurs du siècle
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)164
Date range Jan 1996 - Apr 1996
• File labelled ‘Telford. 600’ span iron bridge’ – notes, copies of documents and articles, correspondence, drawings, etc
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)163
Date range c. Mar 1979 - c. June 1979
• Typescript list of Telford MSS in the library of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)162
Date range No date
• Typescript, ‘Holyhead Road. Reports various’
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)161
Date range No date
• Typescript, ‘Telford works. Scottish bridges’
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)160
Date range No date
• Typescript, ‘Thomas Telford. Birmingham canal navigations. Letters from Telford to Freeth, 1827 - 1837 and reports by Telford, 1824 - 1830’
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)159
Date range No date
• Contents of box file of notes, copies of documents and articles, correspondence, etc on Smeaton – letters, papers (Banks, Farey), diaries, library and instruments, reports (1812), miscellaneous papers and Eddystone book
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)146
Date range c. Feb 1973 - c. May 1996
• Typescript, ‘Telford drawings, plans, etc - vol 2’
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)157
Date range No date
• Folder of notes, correspondence, etc on Smeaton book
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)147
Date range c. Aug 1977 - c. Dec 1983
• Typescript, ‘Telford works. Ports and harbours’
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)155
Date range No date
• Typescript, ‘Telford works. Bridges’
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)154
Date range No date
• Typescript, ‘Telford works. Roads’
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)153
Date range No date
• Historical Manuscripts Commission: National Register of Archives list of the Telford MSS at the Institution of Civil Engineers
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)152
Date range 1970
• File of notes, correspondence, photograph, etc on correspondence between Strutt and Bage
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)151
Date range c. Aug 1956 - c. Oct 1997
• Typescript of three reports by William Smith copied from his MSS in British Transport Archives, by M Baldwin
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)150
Date range Mar 1971
• Skempton’s contribution on John Smeaton for the New Dictionary of National Biography, with related correspondence
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)149
Date range Feb 1996 - Jan 1998
• MS notes on Troughton wills
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)167
Date range No date
• Typescript, ‘Telford’s note book - "Runcorn Bridge" 1814’
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)158
Date range No date
• Copy of Grundy’s report on making the River Swale and Bedale Brook navigable
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)108
Date range 1767
• File of correspondence, notes, copies of documents and articles, etc on Grimsthorpe (John Grundy)
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)117
Date range c. Jan 1976 - c. Oct 1986
• File of correspondence, notes, copies of documents and articles, etc on Grimsthorpe (John Grundy)
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)116
Date range c. Jan 1976 - c. Oct 1986
• Skempton’s contribution on John Grundy for the New Dictionary of National Biography, with related correspondence
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)115
Date range June 1994 - Dec 1997
• Typescript of A W Skempton, ‘The engineering works of John Grundy’, Association for Industrial Archaeology conference, Lincoln
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)114
Date range Sept 1983
• Ring binder of notes relating to a Grundy exhibition, with letter to Skempton from Neil Wright about the Lincoln conference of the Association for Industrial Archaeology
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)113
Date range 4 Dec 1982
• File of notes and copies of documents relating to Grundy and Wells Harbour
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)112
Date range No date
• Lincolnshire Life, containing article about John Grundy (father and son)
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)111
Date range June 1980
• Family tree of Grundy family
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)99
Date range No date
• Copy letter from A P Woolrich relating to Grundy material in the Sutro Library
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)109
Date range 5 Nov 1984
• File of manuscript notes, etc on Joseph Hodskinson and George Bassett
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)120
Date range c. June 1973
• Copy of Grundy’s report on making the Cod Beck navigable
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)107
Date range 1767
• Copy of Grundy’s report on the proposed navigation from Chesterfield to the River Trent
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)106
Date range 1770
• Neil R Wright, John Grundy of Spalding, Engineer, 1719-1783. His life and times, typescript sent to Skempton by author
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)105
Date range 15 July 1983
• Copy of catalogue of books and papers belonging to John Grundy of Spalding, Lincolnshire, made in 1767
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)104
Date range No date
• File of correspondence, notes, copies of documents and articles, etc on John Grundy
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)103
Date range 1980s
• File of notes, correspondence, etc on John Grundy, including AIA conference in Lincoln
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)102
Date range c. 1983
• File entitled ‘Grundy’s MS Reports Vol II’
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)101
Date range No date [c Feb 1955]
• Contents of box file (notes, correspondence, copies of articles and documents, photographs, etc) relating to various engineers
Engineers, etc

John Watté, John Eyes, William Fairbank, Isaac Milbourn, David Davies, T O Blackett, Alexander Comrie, Charles Hassall, Isaac Thompson, John Smith, John Dalton, George Hennet, John Snape, Charles Tate, John Walker, George Young

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)58
Date range c. Apr 1973 - c. May 1973
• File of notes, correspondence, etc relating to sources on Grundy
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)110
Date range Jan 1973 - Aug 1983
• Copy of letter from William Jessop to Lord Sheffield about canal
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)219
Date range 13 May 1790
• MS - ‘Appendix I. Wages, costs, salaries and inflation’ - based on various projects
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)179
Date range No date
• Manuscript list of Rennie drawings of bridges and other engineering works in the Institution of Civil Engineers
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)178
Date range No date
• MS notes from St Bride’s poor rate books
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)177
Date range No date
• Letters to Skempton from Margaret Farrar (Cambridge), relating to research on various engineers, with draft replies and notes by Skempton
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)176
Date range Jan 1998 - Mar 1998
• Letter to Joyce Brown from Westminster Archives Dept about Thomas Yeoman’s burial, with attached notes
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)175
Date range 28 Oct 1971
• File of correspondence, notes, copies of documents and articles, etc on Thomas Yeoman [labelled ‘PSB 007.011]
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)174
Date range 1970s - 1990s
• File of notes, offprint of article, illustrations, etc on Sam Wyatt
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)173
Date range No date
• Wyatt family tree
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)172
Date range No date
• Envelope containing copy of papers relating to Joseph Banks, John Smeaton and John Grundy, with covering letter from A P Woolrich
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)118
Date range 5 June 1986
• Box file containing correspondence, notes, copies of documents and articles, etc on Vermuyden and the Great Level (Fens)
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)170
Date range c. May 1996 - c. Sept 1997
• Letter to Joyce Brown [Skempton’s assistant] about the archives of Hawksley, with notes
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)119
Date range May 1988
• File of correspondence, notes, copies of documents and articles, book reviews, etc on William Jessop
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)127
Date range 1970s - 1990s
• File of notes, copies of articles, correspondence, etc labelled ‘Jessop Correspondence’
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)126
Date range c. Jan 1970 - c. Sept 1974
• File relating to Jessop’s reports and letter from Institution of Civil Engineers accepting them for its archives
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)125
Date range 7 Apr 1978
• MS list of Jessop reports
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)124
Date range Sept 1974
• File of notes, copies of documents and articles, correspondence, etc
Engineers, etc

Relating to Jessop lecture, Josiah Jessop, Butterley Co, Benjamin Outram, William Jessop junior, including copy of Butterley Co history by Philip Riden, with letter from Riden, and transcripts of Banks - Jessop - Rennie correspondence relating to the Horncastle Navigation

 Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)123
Date range c. Jan 1974 - c. Aug 2000
• Family tree of Josiah Jessop
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)122
Date range No date
• Letter to Skempton from Ivan Nixon, with a copy of his biographical note on the contributions of Charles Frewen Jenkin to engineering, and Christmas card from Ivan and Hilda Nixon
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)121
Date range Jan 1983 - Dec 1999
• Box file entitled ‘Dockyards’ containing notes, photographs, correspondence, etc mainly relating to Godfrey Thomas Greene, Director of Engineering and Architectural Works for the Admiralty
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)98
Date range c. July 1960 - c. Sept 1962
• Contents of box file labelled ‘W B Wilkinson’ [civil engineer] - with typescript of article by Joyce Brown, ‘W B Wilkinson (1819-1902) and his place in the history of reinforced concrete’, Oct 1968: notes, copies of articles, photographs, etc
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)171
Date range c. May 1962 - c. Dec 1969
• File of notes, copies of articles, letter, etc labelled ‘Surveyors’, relating to Murdoch Mackenzie, Graeme Spence
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)68
Date range May 1973
• Ring binder with notes, copies of articles and documents, etc relating to works by John Armstrong, Thomas Badeslade, Peter Bateson, Charles Bridgeman and John Grundy
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)77
Date range No date
• Ring binder labelled ‘Fens 17th c’ , with notes on drainage engineers (for biographical dictionary)
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)76
Date range No date
• File of notes entitled ‘General and biography’ relating to various engineers
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)75
Date range No date
• Typescript notes on bridge engineers, with letter from Howard Colvin, St John’s College Oxford
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)74
Date range 12 Dec 1975
• Manuscript table of leading public works contractors
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)73
Date range No date
• Manuscript notes entitled ‘Appendix II: Chronological Table’ – lists civil engineering projects, with dates, cost and engineer responsible – for bibliographic dictionary
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)72
Date range No date
• File of notes, copies of articles, etc relating to – Vauban, Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, Adlingfleet slopes, - Chaman, J Sutcliffe, - Girard, Shelmire Bank, Barnet embankment, Archway cutting, Sir Henry Parnell, - Le Blanc, - Wood, Jean Résal, New Cross
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)71
Date range No date
• Contents of box file of notes, copies of articles and documents, correspondence, etc on John Grundy senior and junior, and Thomas Badeslade
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)100
Date range c. Aug 1993 - c. Oct 1999
• File of notes, copies of articles, etc on county surveyors
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)69
Date range No date
• Alphabetical index of engineers
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)80
Date range No date
• Folder containing entries of an index of land surveyors [for University of Leicester]
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)67
Date range No date
• File of notes, copies of articles and documents, drawings, correspondence, etc relating to building surveyors, architects, etc: James Arrow, William Thomas, James Playfair, George Dance, John Marquand, Charles Craig, Sam Wyatt
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)66
Date range c. June 1971 - c. Sept 1973
• Letter to Skempton from R J M Sutherland (of Harris & Sutherland), enclosing copy of chapter by John Weiler on the Royal Engineers as Railway Inspectors
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)65
Date range 18 Jan 1989
• File of notes, copies, etc on military engineers
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)64
Date range No date
• File of notes, copies of articles, correspondence, etc relating to John and James Cooper, Samuel Phillips, Joseph Jacob, Matthew Bolton, James Watt, John Foulds, Thomas Hewes, John Sutcliffe
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)63
Date range c. Aug 1971 - c. June 1981
• File of notes, copies of articles, correspondence, etc on engineers associated with Rennie
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)62
Date range c. Dec 1976 - c. Nov 1977
• File of manuscript notes, photocopies, correspondence, etc on railway engineers
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)61
Date range c. Jan 1983 - c. July 1995
• Bundle of MS and typescript articles on various engineers [for biographical dictionary]
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)180
Date range No date
• Typescript copy of article on London millwrights by Jim Moher
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)70
Date range 1992
• Contents of box file of notes, copies of articles, correspondence, etc on William Chapman
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)88
Date range c. Feb 1972 - c. Dec 1998
• Printed pedigree of the Greene family
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)97
Date range 1899
• Copy of letter to Skempton from Jennifer Tann, University of Aston, with information on references to Coopers (various men)
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)218
Date range 15 June 1972
• Family tree of William Clowes
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)96
Date range No date
• Plan of Robert Chater’s house (tentative plan)
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)95
Date range No date
• File entitled ‘Chapman. Beverley & Barmston, Muston & Yedingham, Keyingham Level’ – notes, copies of documents and articles, correspondence, etc
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)94
Date range c. Aug 1972 - c. May 1974
• File entitled ‘Chapman. Locomotive, coal drops, Byer & Wallsend, Wittington Ropery’ – notes, copies of documents and articles, correspondence, etc
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)93
Date range c. May 1975 - c. Dec 1975
• Copy and typed transcript of letter from W Chapman to John Buddle, 1814, from Durham CRO
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)92
Date range No date
• Typescript of biography of William Chapman [by Skempton?]
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)91
Date range No date
• Ring binder with notes, copies of articles and documents, etc relating to works by Hugh Baird, George Bradshaw, S C Brees and Robertson Buchanan
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)78
Date range No date
• MS notes on Chapman in Ireland
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)89
Date range No date
• Alphabetical index of engineers
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)79
Date range No date
• Details of William Chapman’s jobs
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)87
Date range No date
• Brunel family tree [1769 - 1962]
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)86
Date range No date
• File of notes, photographs, etc on Samuel Brooke, printer
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)85
Date range No date
• Plan of John Blunt’s house (tentative plan)
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)84
Date range No date
• Folder containing correspondence, photocopies of articles, etc relating to Henry Beighton, cartographer
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)83
Date range No date [c June 1998]
• Photocopy of pp 300-301 from Minutes of Proceedings of Institution of Civil Engineers, vol XLVII, 1876-77, relating to William Barber
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)82
Date range No date
• Contents of box file of notes, copies of articles and documents, photographs, correspondence, etc on Charles Labelye and Robert Mylne, c
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)81
Date range c. Mar 1960 - c. Feb 1999
• Contents of box file (notes, correspondence, copies of articles and documents, etc) relating to: John Holmes, Henry Eastburn, John Gwyn, Robert Mackell, Luke Holt, Matthias Scott, Benjamin Latrobe, Thomas Richardson, Henry Hindley
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)59
Date range c. June 1972 - c. May 1999
• MS biography of William Chapman
Engineers, etc
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control RES(BIO)90
Date range No date
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