Major Accessions to Repositories 1996 relating to Architecture

National, Special and University

Aberdeen University Library

• Peter Rourke: notes rel to Scottish castles c1960-94 (AUL MS 3498)

British Architectural Library

• Cockerell family: letters to Charles Robert Cockerell and Frederick Pepys Cockerell from various correspondents 1820-91
• Charles Barry jnr, architect: corresp 1858-93
• Raymond Charles Erith, architect: job files c1945-73
• Architects for Peace records c1981-94

Dundee University Library

• Dundee Institute of Architects records 1884-1970 (AccM/337)
• Gauldie, Hardie & Sharp, architects, Dundee: records 1809-1973 (AccM/335)

Institution of Civil Engineers

• Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849), civil engineer: letters rel to Thames Tunnel

Liverpool University, Department of Special Collections and Archives

• Robert Joseph Gardner-Medwin, Roscoe Professor of Architecture (addnl): papers c1930-80 (D688)

Museum of Welsh Life

• AF Webb & WA Griffiths, architects, Blackwood and Ponfilanfraith: plans of houses at Penllywn, Ponfilanfraith (3733/1-3)

National Primary Education Archive

• Department of Education and Science, Architects and Building branch: papers deposited along with the photographic archive c1930-90 (Acc 96/7)
• David Leslie Medd, architect (addnl): corresp and papers c1930-90 (Accs 96/1-3, 5, 8, 11-13, 16-20)

National Railway Museum

• Signal Projects Group, Croydon: papers incl layouts, site plans and general files c1920-85

Royal Commonwealth Society Library

• Kenneth A Brundle: 'Escape from Singapore 1942 - an architect's memories of Malaya and Singapore 1941-42 incl an escape from Singapore February 1942' (British Association of Malaya Addenda)

Theatre Museum

• Richard Leacroft, architect: papers (RP90/2358)

Victoria & Albert Musuem, Archive of Art and Design

• Sidney William Hamlyn, lighting designer: papers 1890-1959 (AAD?1996/10)

Victoria & Albert Museum, National Art Library

• Benjamin Dean Wyatt, architect: corresp mostly with the Duke of Wellington rel to Apsley House 1816-41 (MSL 1996/2)
• Francis Barchard of Horsted Place, Sussex: account book mostly rel to building work on Horsted Place 1790-1855 (MSL 1996/3)

Local Repositories in England

Birmingham City Archives

• Bateman & Co, architects, Birmingham (addnl): misc records c1825-1930 (MS 1542 addl)

Black Country Museum

• JH Robertson, builder, Oldbury: plans, invoices, wages and account ledgers 1850-1930

Bolton Archive and Local Studies Service

• Bradshaw, Gass & Hope, architects, Bolton (addnl): corresp and papers c1910-60 (ZBGH)

Essex Record Office, Southend Branch

• Wilfrid Price, architect: architectural drawings 1922-29 (D/DS 556)

Lincolnshire Archives

• Charles Kirk, architect, Sleaford: journal and account book 1828-48 (MISC DON 1015)

Nottinghamshire Archives

• Dennet & Ingle, builders, Nottingham (addnl): ledgers, bills of quantities, specifications and plans c1900-60 (Acc 5021)

Local Repositories in the Channel Islands

States of Guernsey Island Archives Service

• NH Guilbert, architect: working papers 1892-1956 (GOO)