| Description | Include road plans, draft and working drawings, and sections primarily associated with drainage system for a new housing estate at Sheldon. Some plans also marked Yardley. Area centred around Ordnance Survey grid reference SP 145 852 GB.
The plans do have their own internal reference code system which seems to be very much disturbed in the current arrangement (code example: H/1/26/A)
There are numerous copies, annotated copies, printed (working or reference?) copies although roll /a and roll /m may be full sets. The former are easier to handle.
The contents of the rolls have not been listed in detail but cover the following aspects of the project (the following list must not be considered exhaustive or exclusive):
Subterranean sections and cortions (peats and silts): /a, /b, /g
Road and house/plot layout: /c, /f, /k, /l (in particular), /o, /p
Drainage scheme: /a, /c, /f, /n
Watercourse, culverts, sewers: /e, /g, /j
Road drainage scheme: /b
Footpaths: /g
Required easements: /n
Tree (red ash) lined avenues: /i
Church plot: /j
House layout Garrett's Green Lane , Boyne Lane: /d
Post Office Sports Ground: /h
Roll /k is a set of 4 road by road tables annotated with notes of the progress of the work to implement the drainage scheme across the estate.
Largely drawn up for Maypole Developments Limited in 1936 - 1937 by Humphries and MacDonald, Consulting Engineer but later rolls (1942 /c,/ n, and /i) are for New Ideal Homesteads Ltds.
Various scales. |