Filing created by the City Engineer and Surveyor

Reference Number
BC/7/7/1
Level of Description
Series
Title
Filing created by the City Engineer and Surveyor
Date
1876-1958
Extent
Extent: 24 boxes, 5 outsize files
Description
Departmental filing created by the City Engineer and Surveyor in the course of their duties.
This is a partial sequence of filing; many files in the series have been disposed of at an unknown point in time.
The remaining files provide granular detail of works and costs, and contain correspondence, reports, plans, estimates, calculations, contract paperwork, journal articles and photographs relating to city improvements including:
compulsory purchases, clearances and demolitions;
the Dolemeads Improvement Scheme;
post-war housing including permanent pre-fabricated housing;
the Larkhall Housing Scheme;
Twerton Housing Estate;
housing in Weston;
the Snow Hill Clearance area;
the Small Dwellings Acquisition Act, which granted powers to local authorities to advance money to residents for the purchase of the house in which they lived;
street works;
the Midland Road Depot;
Manvers Street Bus Station;
bridge construction, acquisition, maintenance and improvement;
sewerage, sewerage works, drainage and pollution;
flood prevention;
new water supplies;
plumbing;
construction works;
the botanical gardens;
the Bath Bill (1925);
pedestrian crossings;
traffic census;
staffing – engineering workforce.
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