Ringways References

This is an experiment into how references might be collated and published for the Ringways articles. The references will not be placed on the pages themselves, to avoid it becoming too academic and even less readable, but instead will be collated here, with each key point in the text married up with its source.

Wish me luck!

Ringway 1

North Cross Route

Route, Willesden Junction - Hackney Wick

T 319/1842 contains the standard GLC route map for Ringway 1

Route published in 1966

MT 106/437 for engineering plans, route study and publicity

Demolition of Sigmund Freud's house

Link roads from Willesden to Harlesden, M40 and M4

MT 106/437

British Rail's objection to motorway over Camden Goods Yard

PNLR terminus on Ringway 1

MT 106/437 in plan sheets

M11 to Angel link alternative route on line of A10

MT 106/437 in study on alternative links to York Way and Hackney Wick

Barbara Castle newspaper controversy

MT 106/437

East Cross Route

Route, Hackney Wick to Kidbrooke

Road is as-built before 1973

T 319/1842 contains the standard GLC route map for Ringway 1

Existing proposal by London County Council

GLC/TD/C/P/01 held at London Metropolitan Archives

Sections of road previously under motorway restrictions

Sections of East Cross Route designated A106

OS Landranger map (details to follow)

A13 interchange as temporary measure

Third Blackwall Tunnel bore planned

A-Z map (details to follow)

Kidbrooke Interchange (A2/A20/Ringway 1)

HLG 159/1257

South Cross Route

Route, Kidbrooke - Clapham Junction

T 319/1842 contains the standard GLC route map for Ringway 1

Kidbrooke Interchange (A2/A20/Ringway 1)

HLG 159/1257

Blackheath tunnel and alternative line proposals

HLG 159/1257 for proposals made by LB Greenwich and Buchanan

MT 106/299 for report in South London Press, 09/04/1971, including trial bore holes made by GLC

New Cross Spur interchange

Split carriageways at Denmark Hill

Brixton section, and redevelopment of Brixton

LBL/BDD/1/16/1, LBL/BDD/1/16/2 and LBL/BDD/2/4 for various incarnations of the Brixton Town Centre Redevelopment Plan within the Ringway timeframe

Barrier Block (Southwyck House), Brixton

Urban 75 have a well-researched report from original files at Lambeth Archives, verified by the site's authors

Engineer's Reports

MT 106/299 for details on commissioning and funding

West Cross Route

Route, Clapham Junction - Holland Park

MT 106/188

CM 08

Route, Holland Park - Westway

This road is as-built before 1973.

T 319/1842 confirms the whole route.

Route, Westway - Willesden Junction

MT 106/437

Elevated motorway with three or four lanes

Interchange at Chelsea, and alternative plans

MT 106/188 for complex looped interchange

Check - not sure? for east-facing directional interchange

Designs for A4 interchange

MT 106/188 for stacked roundabout

Check - not sure? for west-facing directional interchange

Dual carriageway proposal forking to two bridges

Western Environmental Improvement Route

West London Assessment Study, Stage II. Viewed at Richmond Archives. Detailed page to follow.

Mention of proposal to link Chelsea and Victoria Embankments

LA 02 mentions this plan - detailed diagrams and documents yet to be located

Ringway 3

Western Section

Route, Thames - M3

Route, M3 - M4 - Yeading

Route, options at Yeading

Route, MoT option Yeading - South Oxhey

Check (same as GLC route)

Route, GLC option Yeading - South Oxhey

Check (same as MoT route)

MT 106/291 for 1964 route through Stanmore and Harrow to M1 junction 3

R3 connecting to M3 junction 1

R3 connecting to M3 at new junction at Upper Halliford (inc. reserved land and property dispute)

MT 120/169

Cost comparison of Ministry and GLC route options

HLG 159/321

Previous plans for D-Ring and to link M1 and Heathrow by dual carriageway

Memo indicating urban or rural motorway standard

MT 106/413

File suggesting route number M16