Series 54 - Personal items (Family)


ProvenanceSir Alec Skempton
Description

Items returned to Skempton family

AccessClosed

Inventory Listing

• Manuscript and typescript notes on Skempton family history (in Skempton’s handwriting)
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER6
Date range c. 1976
• Rough notebook
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER35
Date range No date
• Small notebook used as diary
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER36
Date range Mar 1972 - Apr 1972
• MS notebook on site locations and reports
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER37
Date range No date
• Copy of obituary of Professor Karl Terzaghi sent to The Times
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER38
Date range No date
• Items relating to obituaries, memorials, etc relating to: Laurits Bjerrum, 28 Feb 1973; Ian Munro, 24 May 1985; Harry Bolton Seed, 10 & 11 May 1990; Leo Casagrande, 8 Dec 1990
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER39
Date range Feb 1973 - Dec 1990
• File of manuscript notes on gold tooling in western Europe
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER40
Date range No date
• Folder on fees (closed accounts)
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER41
Date range Apr 1955 - Oct 1968
• Folder on fees, various projects
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER42
Date range Nov 1965 - Mar 1996
• Typescript article, ‘The unmentionable book scandal’: relates the removal of books from the Institution of Civil Engineers library by Skempton and (unidentified) author
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER43
Date range No date
• 32 family trees, various branches of Skempton’s and wife’s family
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER1
Date range c. 1985
• Photocopy of photograph of Samuel Skempton with two friends (original was an ambrotype, c 1880)
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER2
Date range No date
• Typescript catalogue of Skempton family portraits to 1930
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER3
Date range 1991
• Small MS field notebook of Skempton
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER34
Date range No date
• Copies of documents, presumably of family history interest [relate to Skempton]
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER5
Date range No date
• Invitations, Christmas cards, etc
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER22
Date range 1974 - 1999
• MS notes on family silver and family history
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER9
Date range No date
• Ring binder containing details of silver owned by Skempton, c 1968-88, with loose papers
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER10
Date range No date
• Notes, correspondence, etc relating to silver, 1990s
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER11
Date range No date
• Manuscript list of silver at Skempton’s Aunt Doris’ house in Weston Favell, Northamptonshire (now at Watford)
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER12
Date range Sept 1978
• Utility bills, etc relating to 54 Orchard Drive, Watford
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER14
Date range 1974 - 1976
• MS plan of 16 The Boltons
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER15
Date range No date
• Legal documents relating to first floor flat at 16 The Boltons, with associated correspondence
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER16
Date range Aug 1989 - July 1991
• Probate account of Gladys Madeline Skempton, died 4 Apr 1975, with associated correspondence
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER17
Date range Apr 1975 - July 1975
• Draft will, with letter from solicitors to Skempton
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER18
Date range 16 July 1979
• Notes, etc relating to finance plans and on best time to retire
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER19
Date range No date
• Documents relating to stays in Lister Hospital (London)
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER20
Date range July 1994 - Mar 1997
• Letter to Skempton from Winters, chartered accountants, about cost of employing a housekeeper
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER21
Date range Feb 2001
• Typescript notes on family history [dedicated to Skempton’s two daughters]
Personal items
Creator Sir Alec Skempton
Control PER4
Date range Sept 1991, No date

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