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GB 249 T-GED/22/1/142 · Item · 1707 - 1719
Part of British Isles: England: Individual Towns, Cities, Regions etc.

Two bird's-eye views of country houses with adjoining gardens, mounted on one sheet.

  • 'Aldington, West Courty[ard], Seat of Richard Sheldon Esq.'; 'J. Bad[e]slade delin.'; 'J[an]. Kip sculp.'; Jan Kip after J[ ] Badeslade; 42.5 x 34.2 cm on 46.5 x 35.9 cm sheet; [1719]; from John Harris, 'The History of Kent' (London: Midwinter, 1719), plate 13, p. 98.
  • 'Badminton in the county of Gloucester, one of the Seats of the Most and Noble & Potent Prince Henry, Duke of Beaufort [...]'; 'L[eonard]. Knyff D.'; 'J[an]. Kip'; Jan Kip after Leonard Knyff; 47.4 x [34.7] cm on [ ] x 48.2 cm sheet; [1707]; from Leonard Knyff and Jan Kip, 'Britannia Illustrata or Views of Several of the Queens Palaces also of the Principal Seats of the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain' (London: David Mortier, 1707), plate 10.

'Cities Exhibition No. 894'

Birmingham
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/147 · Item · 1899
Part of British Isles: England: Individual Towns, Cities, Regions etc.

'Friends' Summer School Birmingham, September 1899.'
'John Bartholomew & Co. Edinburgh'

Anon.

Scale: 8 cm to 1 mile

'Tower-SM' endorsed on reverse in manuscript in pencil.
'U.H. 1/2 Jubilee' endorsed on reverse in manuscript in ink.

Bolton
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/149 · Item · 1911
Part of British Isles: England: Individual Towns, Cities, Regions etc.

'Borough of Bolton Proposed Improvement Scheme'

One page with two illustrations of the improvement scheme.

  • 'View from New Street towards Town Hall Sq[uare]'
  • 'General Plan'

'Thomas H. Mawson, assisted by Robert Atkinson'

Scale unspecified.

From 'The Builder, 7. April 1911'

Mawson, Thomas Hayton, 1861-1933, landscape architect
Bournville, Birmingham
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/151 · Item · 1913
Part of British Isles: England: Individual Towns, Cities, Regions etc.

'Proposed Development of Weoley Park Estate, Selly Oak, Birmingham as revised, June 1913'
'24-6-1913'
'Barry Parker & Raymond Unwin, Architects [...]'

Scale: 1 inch to 100 feet

'R. Unwin, Hampstead N.W.' stamped in bottom right corner.
'Drawing No: 13325' endorsed top right corner.
'G[arden] C[ity] Scheme R Unwin' endorsed on reverse in manuscript.
'[Cities E]xhib[ition]'

Parker, Richard Barry, 1867-1943, architect and town planner
Bournville, Birmingham
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/152 · Item · No date
Part of British Isles: England: Individual Towns, Cities, Regions etc.

'Bournville Village Trust Proposed Development of Park Cottage Farm Estate Selly Oak'
'S. Alex. Wilmot Surveyor Estate Office Bournville'

Scale: 1 inch to 100 feet

'Drawing No. 86' endorsed top right corner.

'Cities Exhibition, No. 124 B, lent by Bournville Village Trust'

Bradford
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/155 · Item · No date
Part of British Isles: England: Individual Towns, Cities, Regions etc.

Reproductions of plans and perspective views of the winning entries of a competition for an improvement scheme in Bradford, mounted on one sheet.

  • 'Replanning of Central Area Bradford:'; 'First-Premiated Design. By Messrs. J.S. Gibson, Skipwith & Gordon.'; [two plans, two identical views]
  • 'Second-Premiated Design. Patrick Abercrombie and Lionel B. Budden, architects.'; [plan and view]
  • 'Third- Premiated Design. Dann and Horniman, Architects'; [plan]
  • [Site plan of competition area]

Various authors.

Various scales.

From unidentified publications.

Abercrombie, Sir Leslie Patrick, 1879-1957, Knight, architect and town planner