| Title | Soho Manufactory – plans of the Engine Yard, drawings of buildings, circa 1783—1785, 1788, circa 1800, 1802, 1811, 1840, not dated |
| Description | Soho Manufactory (12 items).
1447. Soho Manufactory, Plans of the Engine Yard, Drawings of Buildings. Circa 1783-1785, 1788, 1790s, 1802, 1811, 1840, not dated. 12 items.
Plans of the engine company buildings, elevation of the principal building, sections of a shop etc.
Plans:
"Plan of the buildings belonging to Boulton & Watt at Soho" - coloured plan, not dated [circa 1783-1785].
"Ground Plan of the Buildings belonging to the Works at the Soho (except the Mint & Building adjoining) standing on the Land now under Lease to Mr. Boulton" - coloured plan of Soho Manufactory by J. A. Smith, Jun. 1788, with a memorandum of valuation of the buildings by J. A. Smith, 4 Jun. 1788.
Plan of part of the engine company shops showing parallel motion shop, boiler, position of drill, large drill, grindstone etc. - partially coloured plan, not titled or dated [1790s].
Plan of the engine company shops, with extensive pencil additions showing new yard - shaded plan, not titled or dated [1790s].
"Plan of Soho Engine Premises" - partially coloured plan, Mar. 1802.
Plan of the engine yard - partially coloured plan, not titled or dated [circa 1802].
"Plan of part of Soho Manufactory in the occupation of Boulton Watt & Co. & James Watt & Co., taken from an old plan, with additions and corrections by William Creighton, Aug. 1811" - coloured plan, marked on the back "Plan of Old & New Engine Yards at Soho by Mr. W. Creighton."
"Plan of Soho Engine Yard, Shopping, Offices etc." - coloured tracing, 19 Oct. 1840 [this tracing is very badly damaged and parts have been torn away].
Buildings:
Elevation of the Soho Manufactory principal building, with illuminations for the Peace of Amiens celebrations pencilled in - not titled or dated [1802].
Plan and sections of the smithy, showing furnaces - not titled or dated [circa 1802-1804].
Small pencil drawing of the principal building and sketch of the cupola, not dated.
Plan and elevation of a shop, with an independent engine pencilled in - not titled or dated.
[A pencil note of 1952 suggests that this was either the 14 horse shop at Soho Foundry of 1815 or a proposal for the old smithy at Soho Manufactory - see Portfolio 5/1445 above.] |