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Country code |
GB |
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Repository code |
234 |
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Repository |
National Records of Scotland |
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Reference |
RHP94287 |
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Title |
Plans accompanying the First Planning Report [the Bruce Report] to the Highways and Planning Committee of the Corporation of Glasgow |
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Dates |
Mar 1945 |
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Access status |
Open |
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Location |
On site (Sighthill) |
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Description |
'The Corporation of the City of Glasgow. Folio of maps, plans,and drawings accompanying the First Planning Report to the Highways and Planning Committee.' By Robert Bruce Bsc, MICE, M Inst M & Cy E, Master of Works and City Engineer. W & A K Johnston Ltd, lithographers, Edinburgh and London (no 1). Gilmour & Dean Ltd, Glasgow (no 2). Glasgow Corporation Printing Department.
Various scales. 390 x 260 x 4 mm. Sheets 380 x 500 mm unfolded. Coloured. Printed. Boards covered in blue bookcloth. Black titling on front board. Alexander Baillie's engraving of James Barry's 'Plan of the City of Glasgow', 1782, reproduced on back board. Front and back fly sheets 'Inner core of the City. Guide to street names.'
The plans comprise: (1) proposed arterial and sub-arterial roads in Glasgow; (2) proposed integrated transport system there; (3-5) specimen roundabouts combined with road and rail stations; (6-8) inner core of the city; (9) existing city centre; (10) net densities of population; (11) land not built on within the city; and (12) the Glasgow conurbation; and acknowledgments.
Note: 'Maps based on the 5 inch andd 2 1/2 inch maps issued by Messrs. John Batholomew & Son Ltd...Th one inch Ordnance Survey map is reproduced with the sanction of the Controller of His Majesty's Stationery Office.' |
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Level |
File |
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Extent |
1 volume; twelve plans, folded |
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Related material |
GRO(S) |
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Archival history |
General Register Office for Scotland (Registrar General) (GRO) |
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