BUILDING RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 LMA/4002
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: BUILDING RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT
Date(s)	: 1939-1945
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.53 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Department for Scientific and Industrial Research | Building Research Board

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Building Research Board was founded in 1919 under the Government's Department for Scientific and Industrial Research, as one of a number of Research Boards set up after the First World War.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Files of the Building Research Board relating to the repair of damaged buildings during and after the Second World War, principally concerning London.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

LMA/4002-1: Bomb damage files; LMA/4002-2: General papers.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.

Finding aids:

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

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Records deposited in January and May 1997.

Allied Materials

Related material:

These records complement records of the London County Council, in particular the photograph collection and bomb damage maps.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's 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:
June to August 2010.