London Metropolitan Archives

CENTRAL TECHNICAL UNIT

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): CTU

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: CENTRAL TECHNICAL UNIT

Date(s): 1970-1988

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 3.75 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Central Technical Unit | Greater London Council

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Technical Services departments at the Greater London Council (GLC) provided a fully comprehensive building service from design and construction to maintenance. The departments included Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Architecture, Valuation, Project Management and London Community Builders. The Technical Services Group allowed the GLC to sustain major programmes of work such as housing renovation and the construction of industrial buildings.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Soil surveys for a number of buildings and sites in London, 1971-1984; project files, 1987-1988, containing plans, drawings, site surveys, elevations, tenders, contracts and notes for a number of buildings including Kilmonie School, Settle Street School, Raines Tertiary College, Eliot Bank School, Fairlawn School, Tewkesbury Estate School, Jewish Free School, Camden, Templars School, County Hall boiler-house and calorifiers, Durrington Road and Courage Industrial Site; remedial works and conditions surveys for sites including Yeading Green Estate, Pilgrim Estate, Copley Close Estate, Hanwell Estate, Islip Manor Estate, Northolt Park Estate and Ruislip Gardens Estate, 1970-1988; electrical and mechanical condition surveys for various locations, 1970-1988.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

CTU/01: Soil Surveys; CTU/02: Aperture cards of Service Plans; CTU/03-04: microfiche of Soil Survey plans; CTU/05-06: Aperture cards of Soil Survey plans; CTU/07-10: Project files.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Acquired with the records of its parent body, the Greater London Council.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: April to June 2009

INDEX ENTRIES

Subjects
Architectural plans | Plans | Visual materials
Building construction | Building operations | Construction engineering
Building maintenance | Building operations | Construction engineering
Building plans | Plans | Visual materials
Council housing | Housing | Accommodation | Building standards | Building design | Construction engineering
Electricians | Construction industry personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Housing maintenance | Housing | Accommodation | Building standards | Building design | Construction engineering
Industrial buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Public works | Construction industry | Industry
School buildings | Educational buildings
Soil surveys | Soil sciences

Personal names

Corporate names
Central Technical Unit | Greater London Council
GLC | Greater London Council x Greater London Council
Technical Services Department | Greater London Council

Places
Northolt | Ealing | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Ruislip | Hillingdon | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Yeading | Ealing | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe