Chris's shopping list
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Files I have located by browsing through the red hard-copy Catalogue folders at the National Archives, and which look interesting, but which I haven't yet seen.
This list was brought bang up to date on 5 February 2010.
Things I used to have copies of but which I lost when some thieving scrotes broke into my house and stole my computer at a time when my backups hadn't been running for a couple of months, and which I therefore need to go back and get again
Things I got out in 2005 but which I need to get out again so I can properly reference them
- AT 56/98
- MT 106/118
- MT 106/413
- MT 106/291
- T 319/1842
- T 319/2655
- HLG 159/321
- HLG 159/1318
- HLG 159/1373
MT 39
File references here are MT 39/...
- 351 and 352 - Hyde Park Corner Tunnel (1925-1947)
- 392 - as above
MT 95
File references here are MT 95/...
- 31 - roundabout signs 1953-63
- 35 and 36 - London through-route signs 1947-57
- 59 - pedestrian signals in Slough experiment
- 74 to 83 - New Town layouts 1946-56ish
- 74 general
- 75 Newton Aycliffe
- 76 Harlow
- 77 Harlow plans
- 78 Hatfield/WGC
- 79 Hatfield/WGC plans
- 80 Hemel
- 81 Hemel plans
- 82 Stevenage
- 83 Stevenage plans
- 84 - D-ring 1940s
- 134 - roundabout design 1950-60
- 166 - M50 proposals 1954-56!
- 202 - one way street signs 1949-66
- 205 - 40mph signs 1956-61
- 237 - Loughton flyover on A5 (supposedly an experimental design for the M1 project)
- 248-9 - Barton Bridge special road and plans 1956-63 (more found on this at MT 119/116)
- 262 "engineering model room" - sounds fun
- 283 control of small roundabouts by signals
- 294 - motorways general programme 1949-65
- lots of individual motorway plans follow MT 95/294, scattered among other files. Stops before 384.
- 468 - inspections and observations on M6 - does this mean Preston Bypass? - 1958-65
- 482 - motorway design policy
- more motorway plans from 522 onwards
- 540 - gantry signs policy
- 568 - development of Carbridge temporary flyover - this is Hogarth model
- 608 - change to right hand driving! 1961-66
- 660 - signs to bypassed towns with plans 1961-65
- 784 - Worboys - with plans
- 785 - Worboys - policy with maps
- 786 - Worboys exhibition at Birmingham, with plans
HLG 159
File references HLG 159/...
- 167-171 - draft inquiry report
- 273 - "request for information from GLC on new motorways" - "Motorway Monitoring"???
- 381 - economic case for North Cross Route
- 396 - M4 and North Circular Road - questioning of DoE
- 574 - case for/against R1
- 956-7 - R1 photo montage and plan (this and below, LB Lewisham, think I saw them in 2005)
- 958-9 - R2 photo montage and plan
- 970 - LB Greenwich objections to urban motorway plans - study of effects of building motorways through existing urban communities
- 1604 - cost of road proposals
- 1625 - alternative to proposed roads - the RLBA? (Royal London Boroughs Association or something?)
- 2183 - Bromley R2 alternative line through Beckenham with plans
- 2240 - Bromley: new line for Parkway E with plans
- 2242 - environmental effects of primary road network in LB Croydon and Greenwich
- 2388 - GLC response to HLG 159/2316
- 2494 - investigation into R1 bored tunnel below Blackheath
- 2511 – maps and diags of cut-and-cover in Camden
HLG 159 checked to end.
