Mass-Observation Archive: Topic Collections

1/1/O: Annual Reports from the London Passenger Transport Board 1937-1940

Annual Report & Accounts, 1937. (1 pr doc, 51pp)

Annual Report & Accounts, 1938. (1 pr doc, 72pp)

Annual Report & Accounts, 1939. (1 pr doc, 48pp)

Annual Report & Accounts, 1940. (1 pr doc, 23 pp)

1/1/P: Printed reports & booklets 1925-1940

Report: "Somers Town Housing" by the St Pancras House Improvement Society, 1925. (1 pr doc, 15pp)

Report: "City of Liverpool Housing", 1937. (1 pr doc, 71pp)

Booklet: "Communist Plan for Life in Kensington", 1938. (1 pr doc, 15pp)

Report: "London Housing Statistics" by London County Council, 1938-1939.(1 pr doc, 59 pp)

Reprint of 4 articles first published in February 1938 in The Builder entitled "An Alternative to Tenements", n.d. (1 pr doc, 12pp)

BOX 2: Housing Surveys 1941

1/2/A: Housing Survey data, Fulham, Stepney & Kilburn

Notes: "Remarks on Housing questionnaire", CF, 21.3.1941. (1 ts doc, 1p)

Draft Housing Questionnaire, CF, 25.3.1941 (1 ts doc, 2pp)

Draft Housing Questionnaire, CF, 16.4.1941. (1 ts doc, 3pp)

Draft Housing Questionnaire [based on 1939 Fulham Housing Survey Questionnaire, See 1/1/N], CF, 25.4.1941. (1 ts doc, 3pp)

"Revised Housing Questionnaire", CF, 28.4.1941. (1 ts doc, 5pp)

Letter to TH from CF relating to the Housing Survey in Fulham, 6.5.1941. (1 ts doc, 3pp)

Notes on the method for the Housing Survey in Fulham, CF, 15.5.1941. (1 ts doc, 1p)

Correspondence between TH & John Broadbent regarding plans & photographs for the Housing Survey in Fulham & Stepney, 25.4.1941. (2 ms docs, 1p,1p)

Analysis sheets for Commodore Street in Stepney, CF, 25 April 1941. (1 ms doc, 3pp)

Analysis sheets for Iverson Road in Kilburn, CF, 25.4.1941. (1 ms doc, 3pp)

Analysis sheets for Hilmer Street in Fulham, CF, 15.5.1941. (1 ms doc, 3pp)

Analysis sheets for Searle House & in Stepney, CF, n.d. (1 ms doc, 3pp)

Analysis sheets for Searle House & Frances Gray House in Stepney, CF, n.d. (1 ms doc, 3pp)

Report: "Analysis Summary of Iverson Road, Commodore Street, Hilmer Street" in Kilburn, Stepney & Fulham, CF, 16.5.1941. (1 doc, 28pp)

Memo on Housing Survey, CF, 26.5.1941. (1 ts doc, 3pp)

Description of Frances Gray House & Searle House in Stepney, CF, 12.6.1941. (1 ts doc, 5pp)

"Analysis of Housing Questions", in Fulham, Kilburn & Stepney, CF, 15.9.1941. (1 ts doc, 15pp)

Housing Survey Summary in Kilburn, Fulham & Stepney, CF, 16.9.1941. (1 ts doc, 7pp)

Plan of Searle House Flats in Stepney, n.d (1 ts doc, 1p)

Rough notes with tables of data: "Working Class Housing Data, Fulham, Stepney", [TH], n.d. (1 ms doc, 20pp)

1/2/B: Interviews & reports, Fulham

Observation: "Shopping expedition with Mrs Clarke", CF, 28.4.1941. (1 ts doc, 3pp)

Interviews [with CF's own observations & notes] in Hilmer Street, CF, 28.4.1941 - 8 May 1941. (10 ts docs)

Interviews [with CF's own observations & notes] in Fairholme Road, CF, 29.4.1941. (1 ts doc, 11pp)

Report: "Hilmer Street & Fairholme Road", CF, 15.5.1941. (1 ts doc, 22pp)

1/2/C: Directs & reports, Kilburn & Stepney

Observation of a visit to a working-class family in Kilburn, CF, 20.7.1940. (1 ts doc, 2pp)

Interviews in Iverson Road, Kilburn, CF, 26 March 1941 - 30.3.1941. (8 ts docs)

Description of Iverson Road, CF, 30.3.1941. (1 ts doc, 2pp)

Interviews in Commodore Street, Stepney, CF, 4.3.1941 - 10.3.1941. (12 ts docs)

Plans of houses in Commodore Street with notes, CF, 13.3.1941. (1 ts & ms doc, 5pp)

Description of Commodore Street, CF, 14.3.1941. (1 ts doc, 3pp)

Observation: "No. 36 Commodore Street", 14.3.1941. (1 ts doc, 6pp)

"Report of Housing Survey", Commodore Street & Iverson Road, CF, 25.4.1941. (1 ts doc, 29pp)

1/2/D: Interviews in Stepney

Interviews in Ocean Street, Stepney, CF, 3.6.1941-11.6.1941. (16 ts docs)

"Interim notes on points of interest in Searle House & Frances Gray House Investigation", CF, 12.6.1941. (1 ts doc, 2pp)

1/2/E: Interviews with homeless people

Notes: "Homeless Interviews", CF, 26.1.1941. (1 ts doc, 2pp)

Interviews with the homeless, CF, 23.1.1941 - 25.1.1941. (9 ts docs)

1/2/F: Interviews with women regarding housework

Notes: "Scheme for Interviews", CF, 22.2.1941. (1 ts doc, 2pp)

Notes: "Housing Attitudes", CF, 12.3.1941. (1 ts doc, 2pp)

Interviews with women in various locations, CF, 24.3.1941 - 2.5.1941. (15 ts docs)

1/2/G: Assorted interviews

Interviews in Westminster, NT, 24.1.1941. (1 ms doc, 10pp)

Interviews in Cricklewood, JS,24 - 28.1.1941. (1 ms doc, 10pp)

Interviews from Notting Hill Gate, GH, 29.1.1941. (1 ts doc, 7pp)

Interview [location unknown], Toby Grattan (inv), 31.1.1941. (1 ms doc, 5pp)

Interview [location unknown] with letter to Mr Ferraby, Toby Grattan, 9.2.1941. (1 ts doc, 12pp)

Interviews in Hammersmith & Fulham, DS, 9.2.1941. (1 ms & ts doc, 9pp)

Interviews in Hammersmith, DS, 11.2.1941. (1 ts doc, 12pp)

Interviews in an Essex Village, JC, March 1941. (1 ts doc, 5pp)

1/2/H:Quotations from 1941 material

Notes: "Quotes from comparable material of early 1941", HP, n.d. (1 ms doc, 13pp)

Box 3: Housing Studies 1941-42

1/3/A: Welwyn Garden City, Pamphlets & Correspondence 1942

Booklet: "One Thousand Houses" issued by Welwyn Garden City Urban District Council, October 1937. (1 pr doc, 25pp)

Booklet: "Welwyn for Work-Play-Rest: Welwyn from the point of view of those employed in industry", issued by the Public Relations Dept., Welwyn Garden City Ltd, n.d. (1 pr doc, 14pp)

Booklet: "Welwyn for Work-Play-Rest" issued by the Public Relations Department, Welwyn Garden City Ltd, n.d. (1 pr doc 13 pp)

Correspondence between TH, RF & F J Osborn (Council Housing Personnel), 12 - 21.1.1942. (3 ts docs)

Correspondence between RF & Mr Sharp (Council Property & Maintenance Manager), 21 - 22.1.1942. (2 ts docs, 1p, 1p)

Letter to RF from Chas W Fox (Council Housing Manager) 22.1.1942. (1 ts doc, 1p)

Letter to RF from A T Bullen (Electricity Supply Company Ltd, Electrical Engineer), 22.1.1942. (1 ts doc, 1p)

Notes to TH from BW on the Letchworth Reconstruction Investigation, 27.10.1941. (1 ts doc, 3pp)

1/3/B: Welwyn Garden City Bedroom Survey 1942

Draft Bedrooms questionnaire, RF, 28.1.1942. (1 ms doc, 1p)

Revised Bedrooms questionnaire, MT, 29.1.1942. (1 ms doc, 1p)

Bedrooms questionnaire, 29.1.1942. (1 ts doc, 1p)

Interviews, MS, UT, CM, DH & MT, 30.1.1942. (2 ts & ms bundles)

Report: "Housing at Welwyn: Number of Bedrooms", DB, January 1942. (1 dup doc, 10pp)

Report: "Bedroom questionnaire: Summary", EL, 4.2.1942. (1 ts & ms doc, 14pp)

Letter to RF from MT, 4.2.1942. (1 ms doc, 1p)

Report: "Bedroom questionnaire: Heating of Bedrooms", DJB, 26.2.1942. (1 dup doc, 9pp)

Tabulation of results, DJB, 26.2.1942. (1 dup & ms doc, 6pp)

1/3/C: The Citizen, Letchworth 1942

Selected copies, October 1941 - February 1942 (1 pr bundle)

1/3/D: Ipswich Housing Survey 1941

Correspondence between TH, RF & PM [1st letter includes suggested list of questions to be asked in interviews], 11 - 29.10.1941. (6 ts & ms docs)

Interviews, PM, October-November 1941. (2 ms bundles)

1/3/E: Portsmouth Housing Survey 1941

List of Questions for Portsmouth "2nd Survey", MT, n.d. (1 ts doc, 1p)

Letters to TH from MT, 11 April - 27 October 1941. (5 ms docs)

Comments on Portsmouth, MT, 14 - 17 July 1941. (1 doc, 7pp)

Report: "Portsmouth", MT, July 1941. (1 ms doc, 6pp)

Report: "Portsmouth: clubs & other organisations as affected by war & blitz", MT, August 1941. (1 ms doc, 4pp)

Notes: "Firewatching", MT, August 1941. (1 ms doc, 1p)

"Six months in Portsmouth: report on a continuous study of four streets in blitztown", MT, 13.10.1941. (1 ts doc, 6pp)

Report on Kearney plan for deep shelters, MT, 18.10.1941. (1 ms doc, 9pp)

Housing questionnaire replies, MT, October 1941. (5 dup & ms docs)

Contractors Record & Municipal Engineering, 19.11.1941. (1 pr doc, 20pp)

Report: "Housing QQ", 13.1.1942. (1 ms doc, 11pp)

1/3/F: Interviews in Portsmouth 1941 [File formerly listed as Fulham, see 1/3/G]

"Interviews taken in a bombed area of Portsmouth", MT, 12.7.1941. (1 ts bundle)

"Interviews taken in a comparatively unbombed area in Portsmouth", MT, 19.7.1941. (1 ts bundle)

Cutting from The Evening News, 19.6.1941. (1 pr doc, 1p)

1/3/G: Notes & interviews, Fulham 1941 - 1942 [formerly unlisted]

Notes & quotations from interviews, DH. (1 ms bundle)

Covering the following themes:

Shopping. (8pp)

Public houses. (2pp)

Children & education. (5pp)

Houses & flats. (7pp)

General impressions & morale. (3pp)

Air raid shelters. (3pp)

1/3/H: Notes & interviews, Beacontree & Dagenham 1941 - 1942

Quotation from Beacontree & Dagenham by Terence Young, p84. (1 ts doc, 1p)

Notes & quotations from interviews, DH, VT, MS, October 1941. (1 ts & ms bundle)

Covering:

Shopping. (7pp)

Public Houses. (2pp)

Clergymen. (2pp)

Education. (4pp)

General morale & behaviour. (2pp)

Overheard in a cafe. (1p)

Housing. (3pp)

1/3/I: Report on Blaina & Nantyglo 1942

Report on housing conditions, MT, March 1942. (1 ts doc, 13pp)

1/3/J: Notes, bills & interviews, Letchworth 1942

Notes on films & cinemas, n.d. (1 ts doc, 2pp)

Telephone bills addressed to TH in Letchworth, October 1941. (2 pr docs)

Notes & quotations from interviews, CM, DH, MS, October 1941. (1 ms bundle) covering:

Shopping. (3pp)

Public Houses. (3pp)

Clergymen. (4pp)

Cinemas & theatres. (2pp)

Recreation Grounds. (1p)

Billeting. (5pp)

Travelling difficulties. (1p)

Air raid shelters. (3pp)

Day Nurseries. (1p)

Morale. (4pp)

General Impressions. (2pp)

Housing. (2pp)

Description of area. (2pp)

1/3/K: Notes & interviews, Roehampton 1942

Notes & quotations from interviews with index, MS, VT, DH, 17 - 19.3.1942. (1 ms bundle)

covering:

Description of area. (2pp)

Housing. (3pp)

Shopping. (1p)

Travelling. (2pp)

Social life. (1p)

Parks & playgrounds. (1p)

Rents. (6pp)

Morale. (2pp)

Entertainment. (1p)

1/3/L: Notes, interviews & observations, Watling 1941

Notes, quotations from interviews & observations, CF, MS, VT, 8 - 13.10.1941. (1 ms & ts bundle)

covering:

Shopping. (7pp)

Public houses. (2pp)

Roman Catholic church. (1p)

Community Centre. (7pp)

Morale. (4pp)

Schools. (3pp)

Parks & allotments. (2pp)

Cinema. (3pp)

Radio. (3pp)

1/3/M: Notes & interviews, Ilford 1941

Descriptions of various roads & houses, MS, VT, DH,CF, 24 - 25.10.1941. (5 ms docs)

Quotations from interviews, CF, DH, 24.10.1941. (2 ts & ms docs, 2pp, 1p)

Notes and quotations from interviews on morale, DH, 24.10.1941. (1 ms doc, 1p)

1/3/N: Notes & interviews, Highgate 1942

Notes & quotations from interviews in York Rise, with index, DH. (1 ms doc, 11pp)

covering the following themes:

Public Houses. (1p)

Cinemas (1p)

General impressions and morale. (5pp)

Air raid shelters. (1p)

Description of houses. (1p)

Tabulations of information from tenancy forms & rent books in York Rise, n.d. (1 ms doc, 4pp)

Plans of houses in York Rise, MS, 19 - 31.3.1942. (2 docs, 1p, 1p)

1/3/O: Notes, directs & interviews, Bourneville Estate, Birmingham 1942

Notes & quotations from interviews: "Background to Housing Interviews", MT, February 1942. (1 ms doc, 10pp)

Notes & quotations from interviews and overheards, CM, MT, MS, DH, 24 - 27.2.1942. (1 ms bundle)

covering the following themes:

Shopping. (7pp)

Public Houses.(2pp)

Parks and recreation grounds. (1p)

Education. (2pp)

General impressions & morale. (7pp)

Cafes (1p)

Attitudes to Cadburys. (4pp)

Air raid shelters. (1p)

Travelling Difficulties. (1p)

Billeting. (4pp)

Description of area. (4pp)

List of roads & number of houses, n.d. (1 ms doc, 3pp)

1/3/P: Descriptions of streets, Worcester 1941

Description of streets sampled in Worcester, MS, 1.10.1941. (1 ms doc, 2pp)

Description of streets sampled in Worcester, CF, 30 September - 3 October 1941. (1 ts doc, 2pp)

Box 4: Housing Survey 1941-42

1/4/A: Housing Survey 1941

Analysis sheets for Worcester housing, n.d. (1 ms doc, 4pp)

Analysis sheets for Ilford housing, n.d. (1 ms doc, 8pp)

Analysis sheets for Portsmouth housing, n.d. (1 ms doc 8pp)

Analysis sheets for Letchworth housing, n.d. (1 ms doc, 8pp)

Analysis sheets for Bourneville Bungalows, n.d. (1 ms doc, 2pp)

Analysis sheets for Bourneville, n.d. (1 ms doc, 8pp)

Analysis sheets for Birmingham Old Property, n.d. (1 ms doc, 8pp)

1/4/B:

Analysis sheets for Dagenham housing, n.d. (1 ms doc, 8pp)

Analysis sheets for Roehampton housing, n.d. (1 ms doc, 7pp)

Analysis sheets for Watling housing, n.d. (1 ms doc, 7pp)

Analysis sheets for Fulham housing, n.d. (1 ms doc, 7pp)

Analysis sheets for Fulham flats, n.d. (1 ms doc, 8pp)

Analysis sheets for Highgate flats, n.d. (1 ms doc, 4pp)

1/4/C:

Questionnaire responses, Kentish town & Highgate, DH, December 1941. (1 dup & ms bundle)

1/4/D:

Questionnaire responses, CF, November 1941. (1 dup & ms bundle)

1/4/E:

Questionnaire responses, Watling, DH, October 1941. (1 dup & ms bundle)

Business card: "Mrs Flicker Apartments, Southend-on-Sea", n.d. (2 pr docs)

1/4/F:

Drafts and final version of printed questionnaire, Autumn 1941, (5 dup docs)

Letter to TH from Edith Web regarding publication of "Housing", 20.9.1942. (1 ts doc, 1p)

1/4/G:

Tabulations, Autumn 1941. (1 bundle)

1/4/H: Miscellaneous

Memo on housing, GSF, 28.1.1941. (1 dup & ms doc, 2pp)

Notes: "Repeatable Inquiries", RF, 11 - 13 October 1941. (1 ts & ms doc, 8pp)

Report: "Housing", RF, 14.5.1941. (1 ts doc, 21 pp)

Form for becoming a "friend of the Housing Centre", London, 14.10.1941. (1 pr doc, 1p)

Notes on localities & subjects to be studied in the Housing Survey, 13 - 20 October 1941, RF. (1 ts & ms doc, 4pp)

Analysis: "Years of tenure", VT, October - November 1941. (2 ms bundles)

Analysis sheets for Watling & Dagenham, with letter to TH, 22.11.1941. (1 ms docs, 6pp)

Letter to TH from the Hundred Towns Association, London, 26.12.1941. (1 ts doc, 1p)

Notes: "Housing QQ Changes" with lists of streets in various locations, VT, 31.3.1942. 91 ms doc, 6pp)

Analysis of gender in various locations, VT, 3.3.1942. (1 ms doc, 4pp)

Correspondence between Richard Fitter and Irene Barclay regarding the York Rise Flats [with notes on RF's meeting with Mrs Barclay], RF, April - may 1942. (6 ts docs)

Notes addressed to RF on correlations, DB, 3.6.1942. (1 ts & ms doc, 6 pp)

Letters to RF from the Ministry of Home Security, 30.10.1942. (1 ts & ms doc, 1p)

Notes: "Proposed pseudonyms for places surveyed", RF, 26.3.1942. (1 ts & ms doc)

Miscellaneous notes, n.d. (1 bundle)

Newspaper cutting: "Wartime Britain up for Sale", Sunday Times, n.d. (1 pr doc)

Notes on correlations, n.d. (1 ms doc, 3pp)

1/4/I: People's Homes 1942

News paper cuttings of reviews of People's Homes, 1942. (1 bundle)

Correspondence between Mass-Observation and the Friends War Relief Service, London Hospital, 14 - 15.4.1943. (2 ts docs)

Correspondence between Mass-Observation and the Advertising Service Guild, 5 - 6.4.1943. (2 ts docs)

Correspondence between J I Bernard and J R M Brumwell, 31 March - 1 April 1943. (2 ts docs)

Letter to J Stringer from Mass-Observation, 2.4.1943. (1 ts doc)

Correspondence between Mass-Observation and J Springer, 2 - 27.4.1943. (2 ts & ms docs)

Box 5: Pamphlets, Leaflets, Articles & Cuttings

Town and Country, A planning review, Vol. VIII. No.30, April 1940. (1 pr doc, 40pp)

Town and Country Planning, Vol. IX. No.33, Spring 1941. (1 pr doc, 36pp)

Town and Country Planning, Vol IX. No 35, Autumn 1941. (1 pr doc, 112pp)

Town and Country Planning, Vol. IX. No.36, Winter 1941-42. (1 pr doc, 156pp)

The Listener, Vol XXVI. No.673, 4.12.1941. (1 pr doc, 772pp)

The Listener, Vol. XXVII. No. 680, 22.1.1942. (1 pr doc, 128pp)

The Listener, Vol. XXVII. No. 683, 12.2.1942. (1 pr doc, 224pp)

Cuttings from the Spectator relating to reconstruction, 1941. (1 pr bundle)

Newspaper cuttings relating to reconstruction, 1941-42. (1 pr bundle)

Kensington Housing Trust Ltd, Annual Report, 1940. 91 pr doc, 14pp)

Public Administration, The Journal of the Institute of Public Administration, Vol. XIX. No.1, January 1941. (1 pr doc, 79pp)

The Spectator, No. 5872, 10.1.1941. (1 pr doc, 48pp)

Planning, London Under Bombing: A Broadsheet issued by Political Economic Planning, No.169, 17.2.1941. ( 1pr doc, 31pp)

The Highway, The Journal of the Workers' Educational Association, Vol XXXIII, March 1941. (1 pr doc. 119pp)

St Christopher Magazine, March 1941. (1 pr doc, 28pp)

Article:"Prologue to Planning" by J B Priestley from Horizon, March 1941. (1 pr doc, 3pp)

The Architect and Building News, Vol. CLXVI. No.3772, 4.4.1941. (1 pr doc, 18pp)

Overture to Planning, rebuilding Britain Series No.1,London: Faber and Faber, 15.7.1941. (1 pr doc, 29pp)

Plan for Living, Rebuilding Britain Series No 5, London: Faber and Faber, 21.1.1942. (1 pr doc, 36pp)

The Architectural Review, Destruction and Reconstruction, July 1941. (1 pr doc, 50pp)

The Re-building of Poplar, Issued by the Missionary Council, Trinity Church Poplar, August 1941. (1 pr doc, 2pp)

Contractors Record and Municipal Engineering, Vol. LII. No.44, 29.10.1941. (1 pr doc, 20pp)

Draft Notes on "Star Plan" entitled "Already Our Children Sneer"from Winget Ltd (Engineers and Concrete Machinery Manufacturers), 26.9.1941. (1 vol)

World Review, October 1941. (1 pr doc, 80pp)

Engineering, Vol. 152, 301-320pp, 17.10.1941. (1 pr doc, 49pp)

Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society, Vol. VI. No.10, December 1941. (1 pr doc, 15pp)

Picture Post, The Land of Britain, Vol. 14. No.1, 3.1.1942. (1 pr doc, 27pp)

Bourneville Housing, A description of the Housing Schemes of the Bourneville Village Trust and Cadbury Brothers Ltd, 1942. (1 pr doc, 55pp)

Postcards of Manobier Castle, n.d. (1 pr doc)

Box 6: Aspects of Living in Houses

1/6/A: Why people moved to their present home

Notes and quotations from interviews in Letchworth and Roehampton, VT, 18.4.1942. (1 ms doc,17pp)

Notes and quotations from interviews [location/s unknown], DH, 1942. (1 ms doc, 10pp)

Analysis: "Housing Correlations", PN, 13.3.1942. (1 ms doc, 2pp)

Analysis: "Housing Correlations", VT, 25.3.1942. (1 ms doc, 4pp)

Analysis:"Length of Residence Correlations", n.d. (1 ms doc, 2pp)

Analysis sheets, n.d, VT. (1 dup & ms doc, 6pp)

Tabulations:"Years of Tenure", 1941. (1 dup & ms doc, 2pp)

Interviews in Hilmer Street, CF, 29.4.1941. (1 ts doc, 7pp)

1/6/B: Situation, neighbours & privacy

Notes and quotations from interviews [location/s unknown], DH, n.d. (1 ms doc, 16pp)

Notes and quotations from interviews [location/s unknown], MS, 7.4.1942. (1 ms doc, 8pp)

Notes and quotations from interviews [location/s unknown], VT, 7.4.1942. (1 ms doc, 11pp)

Overhead: "Conversation between neighbours", n.d. (1 ts doc, 2pp)

1/6/C: Housework & cleaning

Interviews in Fairholme Road, CF, 29.04.1941. (1 ts doc, 6pp)

"Analysis summary of Iverson Road, Commodore Street and Hilmer Street", CF, 16.5.1941. (1 ts doc, 27pp)

Analysis:"Cleaning", VT, n.d. (1 ms doc, 12 pp)

Directive reply for February 1942 by D Shaw [gives an account of a day in the life of a servant], February 1942. (1 ms doc, 4pp)

Notes on tiles, VT, 23.3.1942. (1 ms doc, 1p)

Notes on cleaning: "It should not be necessary to light a fire to get a drop of hot water", MS, 3.6.1942. (1 ms doc, 1p)

Observation: "Scrubbing a Kitchen", CF, 11.6.1942. (1 ts doc, 3pp)

Observation: "Washing up the breakfast things on Sunday morning in a Kentish village", CF, 14.6.1942. (1 ms doc, 2pp)

Observation: "A day's housework", VT, 15.6.1942. (1 ms doc, 9pp)

Notes and correlations, n.d. (5 ms docs)

1/6/D: Liking/disliking own home

Notes: "Housing QQ 1941: Quotes from comparable material of early 1941", HB, n.d. (1 ms doc, 3pp)

Quotations from Beacontree & Dagenham by Terence Young, The Architectural Review & Parliamentary debates, 1942. (1 ts doc, 7pp)

Miscellaneous notes on housing, VT, 24.3.1942. (1 ms doc, 4pp)

Quotations from interviews on crowding & likes & dislikes [location/s unstated], 26.3.1942. (1 ms doc, 19pp)

Quotations from interviews on likes & dislikes [location/s unstated], n.d. (1 ms doc, 20pp)

Analysis & correlations, n.d. (1 ms bundle)

Tabulations: "Neighbourhood", n.d. (1 dup & ms doc, 7pp)

1/6/E: Owning or renting

Notes:"Material on Tenants Leagues", BW, 4.12.1941. (1 ts doc, 1p)

Quotations from interviews relating to landlords, VT, 7.4.1942. (1 ms doc, 2pp)

Quotations from interviews, MS, 7.4.1942. (1 ms doc, 10pp)

Quotations from interviews, DH, 28.3.1942. (1 ms doc, 9pp)

Analysis & correlations, n.d. (1 ms bundle)

Tabulations: "Tenure", n.d. (1 dup & ms doc, 4pp)

1/6/F: Storage space & water heating

Notes on objects found around a house [location/s unstated] with interviews in Hilmer Street, 1941. (1 ms & ts doc, 7pp)

Notes & quotations from interviews [location/s unstated], DH, n.d. (1 ms bundle)

Notes & quotations from interviews [location/s unstated], MS, 7.4.1942. (1 ms doc, 5pp)

Notes & quotations from interviews in Roehampton, VT, 17.6.1942. (1 ms doc, 8pp)

Analysis & correlations, n.d. (1 ms bundle)

Quotation from C A Smith's diary, 20.6.1942. (1 ts doc, 1p)

Memo from the Birmingham Post relating to money for publishing articles, January 1942. (1 ts doc, 1p)

1/6/G: Heating & lighting

Interviews in Langham Road, CF, 9.10.1941. 91 ts doc, 2pp)

Notes & quotations from interviews on the Watling Estate, DH & MS, 13 - 14.10.1941. (6 ms docs)

Notes & quotations from interviews [location/s unstated], DH, 1.2.1942. (1 ms doc, 8pp)

Notes & quotations from interviews , VT, 7.4.1942. (5 ms docs)

Notes & quotations from interviews [location/s unstated], MS, 3.6.1942. (1 ms doc, 4pp)

Reply to February 1942 directive by Dorothy Walklen, Bedford, 5.3.1942. (1 ms doc, 4pp)

Notes:"Air to Breathe and Light to See By", RF, 14.4.1942. ( 1 ts doc, 1p)

Newspaper cutting: "Refrigerator Homes After the War", The Star, 27.5.1942. (1 pr doc)

Observation of women lighting a boiler, CF, 15.6.1942. (1 ms doc, 4pp)

Analysis & correlations, n.d. (1 ms bundle)

Tabulations: "House", n.d. (1 dup & ms doc, 2pp)

1/6/H: Repair, decoration & furnishing

Notes on furniture inside the home, CF, 1941. (1 ms doc, 2pp)

Notes on wall decorations, CF, 16 June 1942. (1 ts doc, 1p)

Quotations from interviews, DH, [location/s not stated]. (1 ms doc, 10pp)

Quotations from interviews, Roehampton, VT, (5 ms docs)

Quotations from interviews, [location/s not stated], (1 ms doc, 3pp)

Analysis & correlations, n.d. (1 ms bundle)

Memos from the Birmingham Post relating to money for publishing articles, Feb - March 1942. (2 ts docs)

1/6/I: People's ideas of an ideal home

Notes & quotations from interviews [location/s not stated], MS, 24.3.1942. (1 ms doc, 12pp)

Notes & quotations from interviews entitled "Little Houses" from Fulham Falts, VT, 17.6.1942. (1 ms doc, 1p)

Notes & quotations from interviews in Fulham, CF, 23.6.1942. (1 ts doc, 4pp)

Notes: "Housing QQ 1941: Quotations from comparable material of early 1941 realtive to question 3", HP, n.d. (1 ms doc, 5pp)

The Architectural Association School of Architecture Spring Term Programme: "Housing for Older People", 1942. (1 ts doc, 1p)

1/6/J: Gardens, roof gardens & allotments

Report: "Food Gardens for the Unemployed: Friends' Allotment Committee", S Schofield, 17.11.1939. (1 ts doc, 3pp)

Report: "National Allotments Society Limited", 20.11.1939. (1 ts doc, 5pp)

Interviews in Stepney, NM, 22.7.1940. (1 ts bundle)

Extracts from "M-O Politics Book", n.d. (1 ts doc, 4pp)

Notes on Fulham, HP, 29.7.1940. ( 1 ts doc, 1p)

Extracts from article: "Reflections on Density from Town & Country Planning", Winter 1941 - 2, (1 ts doc, 1p) "Memo from TH to RF", 3 December 1941 - 26 February 1942. (1 ts & ms doc, 1p)

Notes: "Quotes from comparable material of early 1941", HP, 1941. (1 ms doc, 2pp)

Analysis: "Kitchens & Gardens QQ", DB, 4.3.1942. (1 ms doc,

Notes: "First Draft on Gardens", 10.3.1942. (1 ts doc, 7pp)

Notes, VT, 24.3.1942. (1 ms doc, 1p)

Notes: "Parks & Allotments", Letchworth, DH, 14.3.1942. (1 ms doc, 1p)

Notes: "Section V The Englishman's Acre: Second Draft on Gardens", RF, 26.3.1942. (1 ts doc, 11p)

Plans of Balconies & Roof Gardens [location/s not stated], MS, 1.6.1942. (1 ms doc, 2pp)

Analysis & Correlations, 1942. (4 bundles)

Tabulations: "Gardens", n.d. (1 ms doc, 9pp)

Leaflet: "The Second Annual Report of the Bethnal Green (Bombed Sites) Producers Association", October 1943. (1 pr doc, 2pp)

1/6/K:

Galley Proofs: People's Homes, 1942. (1 pr bundle)

1/6/L:

Drafts: People's Homes, RF, 13.3.1942. (1 ts bundle)

1/6/M: Reports on Houses v Flats, Cockroach Infestations and Pre-Fabs

Draft articles for Town & Country: "Housing V Flats", 25.11.1941. (2 ts doc, 6pp)

Draft article for Town & Country: "Housing V Flats", 1.12.1941. (1 ts doc, 8pp)

Notes on meeting (TH & RF) with A I Edwards, President of the 100 Houses Association, RF, 5.12.1941. (1 ms doc, 1p)

Notes and handouts on talk by R Perry of the Committee for the Scientific & Industrial Provision of Housing at an Advertising

Service Guild Lunch at Brown's Hotel, London [includes invitation to luncheon], January 1942. (1 ts doc, 12pp)

Notes: "Cockroaches", PN, 11.6.1942. ( 1 ts doc, 3pp)

Quotations from interviews on Building Societies from Battersea, GST, 29.3.1944. (1 ts doc, 3pp

1/6/N:

Report: "Suggestions for Proposed Glass Investigation", RF, 16.6.1942. (1 ts doc, 7pp)

Box 7: Typed Drafts of People's Homes, 1942

Drafts: "Summary", RF, n.d. (1 ts bundle)

Drafts: "Description of Places and Houses Surveyed", RF, May 1942. (1 ts bundle)

Drafts: "The Inertia of Homes", July 1942. (1 ts bundle)

Drafts: "The Fabric of the Home", n.d. (1 ts bundle)

Box 8: Housing 1941-45

1/8/A: Survey on Utility Furniture, 1945

Analysis of Results, August 1945. (1 ts doc, 7pp)

1/8/B: Temporary Housing 1944

Observation: "Emergency Factory-Made House Exhibited on Land Adjoining Tate Gallery", LB, 4.5.1944. ( 1ts doc, 6pp)

Observation: "Exhibition of the Portal House", DI, 8.6.1944. (1 ms doc, 4pp)

Observation: "Westminster Portal House", GST, 11.6.1944. (1 ts doc, 3pp)

Report: "Temporary Houses at Poplar", GST, 15.11.1944. (1 ts doc, 2pp)

1/8/C: Post-war Homes Exhibition 1945

Leaflet from the Women's Advisory Committee on solid fuel, n.d. ( 1 pr doc, 1p)

Questionnaire card relating to housing, n.d. (1 dup doc, 1p)

Analysis and quotations from interviews, July 1941. (1 ms doc, 3pp)

Quotations from interviews, LHC, 3.7.1945. (1 ms doc, 5pp)

Quotations from interviews relating to duplex housing [with hand drawn diagram], NA, 3.7.1945. (1 ts doc, 10pp)

Interviews and overheards, DBL, 5.7.1945. (1 ts doc, 3pp)

Overheards, NA, 10.7.1945. (1 ms doc, 6pp)

Overheards and Indirect comments on bedroom, CG, 12.7.1945. (1 ts doc, 3pp)

Counts, CG, 12.7.1945. (1 ts & ms doc, 5pp)

Overheards, DOB, 14.7.1945. (1 ms doc, 7pp)

Analysis, n.d. (1 ms doc, 7pp)

Counts, NA, 23.7.1945. (1 ts doc, 2pp)

Tabulations, n.d. (1 dup & ms docs, 8pp)

1/8/D: Post-war Homes Exhibition 1945: Questionnaire responses

Questionnaire [with carbon copy]:15.7.1945. (1 ts doc, 1p)

Questionnaire responses, LF, July 1945. (1 ms & ts bundle)

Questionnaire responses, CG, July 1945. (1 ts bundle)

Questionnaire responses, NA, July 1945. (1 ts bundle)

Questionnaire responses, GST, July 1945. (1 ts bundle)

Questionnaire responses, LB, July 1945. (1 ts bundle)

1/8/E: Post-war Homes Exhibition 1945: Additional questionnaire responses

Questionnaire responses: "Housing Additional qq", July 1945. (1 dup & ms bundle)

1/8/F: As above

1/8/G: Exhibition of Utility Furniture, London 1942

Memo: "Planning Exhibitions: Comments and Questions" from Carter of RIBA in charge of CEMA exhibitions, 7.10.1941. (1 ts doc, 9pp)

Observation: "Cripps at Housing Exhibition", RF, 2.6.1942. (1 ts doc, 1p)

Description of housing exhibition in Charing Cross Road, London [including drawings], MS, 3.6.1942. (1 ms doc, 8pp)

Description of Utility Furniture exhibition [with diagrams], MS, 20.10.1942. (1 ms doc, 4pp)

1/8/H: New Towns for Britain Project: Leaflets, Booklets & Newspaper Cuttings

Booklet: "A Hundred New Towns for Britain: A National Scheme of Building" formulated by A Trystan Edwards, n.d. (1 pr doc, 35pp)

Booklet: "New Towns for Old" by Reverend P T R Kirk, n.d. (1 pr doc, 16pp)

Leaflet reprinted from the Yorkshire Evening News. "A Hundred New Towns for Britain: A Vision of the Future", 14.01.1935. ( 1 pr doc, 1p)

Booklet: "100 New Towns for Britain: Solve the Slum Problem, Give Creative Employment, Save the Countryside, Make an A1 Population", n.d. (1 pr doc, 71pp)

Booklet: "100 New Towns for Britain: Save the Countryside, Remodel Existing Towns, A National Peace Memorial, Solve the Slum Problem. Resuscitate our Industries, Make an A1 Population", n.d. (1 pr doc, 11pp)

Newspaper Cutting: "A Plan that Would Change Britain" from The Sunday Chronicle, 5.5.1935. (1 pr doc, 1p)

1/8/I: The Architectural Science Group's Economic Commitee

Report: "The Key to Efficient Building", 1941. (1 ts doc, 10pp)

Report:"Proposed Ministry of Building", n.d. (1 ts doc, 7pp)

Report: "Pointers to Enquiry", n.d. (1 ts doc, 5pp)

Report: "Some Problems of Research and Investigation", n.d. (1 ts doc, 5pp)

Draft Report: "Economic Committee's Note to the Co-ordinating Committee", n.d. (1 ts doc, 25pp)

Report: "Economic Committee's Note to the Co-ordinating Committee", n.d. (1 ts doc, 12pp)

Notes from the above report, n.d. (1 ts doc, 5pp)

Summary of above report, n.d. (1 ts doc, 7pp)

Correspondence between Richard Fitter and Alun Davison, 23.01.1941. (3 ts docs)

Report: "Progress Report of Economic Committee", 21.2.1941. (1 dup doc, 5pp)

Meeting Minutes, 14.01.1941. (1 ts doc, 2pp)

Meeting Minutes, 16.02.1941. (1 ts doc, 2pp)

Draft Meeting Minutes, 25.02.1941. (1 dup doc, 2pp)

Notes on research equipment and the role of the expert, n.d. (1 ms doc, 1p)

Letter from committee secretary with "List of Research Items", n.d. (1 ts doc, 6pp)

Report: "The Lower Structure", n.d. (1 ts doc, 8pp)

Report: "The Place of Science in Architectural Education", 24.02.1941. (1 ts doc, 9pp)

Report: "The Need for Co-ordination Towards Efficient Building", 27.02.1941. (1 dup doc, 16pp)

Letter to Richard Fitter from Arthur Cobb, 5.04.1941. (1 ms doc, 1p)

1/8/J: Exhibition pamphlets 1942

"Meals for Small Children", Stork Margarine Cookery Service: Cookery Notes no.29, May 1942. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"Good Wartime Jams", Stork Margarine Cookery Service: cookery Notes no.30, June-July 1942. (1 pr doc1p)

"Irene Veal Suggests Some War Time Cakes", n.d. (1 pr doc, 4pp)

"Jam-Making and Fruit bottling", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"I Pass This on to You: Russian Dishes", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"I Pass This on to You: Old Recipes Revived", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"I Pass This on to You: Back to Normal", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"Meals for Two on a Gas Ring", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"Contribution to Progress: An account of the aims & activities of the Electrical Association for Women", n.d. (1 pr doc, 10pp)

"What is the EAW?", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"Application for membership of the Electrical Association for Women", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"The Electrical Association for Women: Publications", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"How to Read Your Electricity Meter", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"How it Works: The Electric Cooker", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"Associated Country Women of the World", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"War Factories Need More Gas", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"Women's Gas Council", n.d. ( 1 pr doc, 1p)

"Mr Therm Fires the Guns", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"Living in Cities", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1pp)

"The Romance of a Lump of Coal", n.d. (1 pr doc, 12pp)

Report: "Homes to Live In Exhibition", n.d. (1 dup doc, 2pp)

1/8/K: Other Housing Surveys

Draft Questionnaire from the Women's Gas Council, n.d. (1 dup doc, 1p)

Questionnaire from the Women's Advisory Housing Council, n.d. (1 pr doc, 2pp)

Newspaper cutting "What Wives Want in Post-war Homes", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

Newspaper cutting: "A Home These Women Want", n.d. (1 pr doc)

Notes on Questionnaires found in newspapers, 28.05.1942. (1 ts doc, 4pp)

Correspondence between Richard Fitter and Miss Ledeboer, August 1942. (3 ts & ms docs)

Questionnaire for Managers, n.d. (1 pr doc, 5pp)

Questionnaire for Tenants, n.d. (1 pr doc, 11pp)

Box 9: Housing 1946-48

1/9/A: Modern Homes Exhibition, Dorland Hall, Regent Street, London 1946

Report: "The Modern Homes Exhibition", n.d. (1 dup doc, 3pp)

Notes and tabulations, n.d. (4 ms bundles)

Pamphlet: "The Council of Industrial Design's Design Quiz", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

1/9/B: Modern Homes Exhibition, Dorland Hall, Regent Street, London, 1946

Notes, observations and overheard conversations, n.d. (5 ms bundles)

1/9/C: Modern Homes Exhibition, Dorland Hall, Regent Street, London, 1946

"Questionnaire A", 20.03.1946. (1 ts doc, 1p)

Questionnaire replies, March 1946, MS. (1 ms doc, 4pp)

Questionnaire replies, March 1946, MT. (1 ms doc, 6pp)

Questionnaire replies, March 1946, JK. (1 ms doc, 8pp)

Questionnaire replies, March 1946, GST. (1 ts bundle)

Questionnaire replies, April 1946, TT. (1 ms bundle)

Questionnaire replies, April 1946, ML. (1 ms bundle)

Questionnaire replies, April 1946, LB. (1 ms bundle)

Questionnaire replies, n.d. (1 ts doc, 6pp)

Analysis & tabualtions, n.d. (1 ms bundle)

Tabulations, n.d. (1 dup & ms bundle)

1/9/D: Modern Homes Exhibition, Dorland Hall, Regent Street, London, 1946

"Questionnaire B", 26.03.1946. (1 ts doc, 2pp)

Questionnaire replies, March 1946, MT. (1 ms doc, 5pp)

Questionnaire replies, March 1946, MS. (1 ms doc, 6pp)

Questionnaire replies, March 1946, GST. (1 ts bundle)

Questionnaire replies, March 1946, ML. (1 ms bundle)

Questionnaire replies, March 1946, JK. (1 ms bundle)

Questionnaire replies, March 1946, TT. (1 ms bundle)

Questionnaire replies, March 1946, LB. (1 ms bundle)

Questionnaire replies, n.d. (1 ts bundle)

Tabulations, n.d. (1 dup & ms bundle)

1/9/E: Modern Homes Exhibition, Dorland Hall, Regent Street, London, 1946

"Note to posterity", n.d, HDW. (1 ts doc, 1p)

"Snap Questionnaire" replies, n.d. (1 dup & ms bundle)

Tabulations, n.d. (1 ms doc, 2pp)

1/9/F: Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition Leaflets, March 1947

"Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition Catalogue", 1947 (1 pr doc, 272pp)

"The Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition's Spot the Stars Contest", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"Gas & Coke in the design for ideal homes", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"The 3 in One Compact", n.d. (1 pr doc. 1p)

"Make Your Ideal Home Your Real Home: Abbey National Building Society", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"Planning the Home Life of the New Britain: Jay's Furnishing Stores", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"Ideal Homes by Oetzmann", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"Bruce's of Baker Street", n.d. (1 pr doc, 4pp)

"Do you Remember?: A pre-war dining room furnished by The Times Furnishing Co.", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"What We Mean by Wates Build", n.d. (1 pr doc, 5pp)

"Good Heating for Every Home with Solid Smokeless Fuel Appliances", n,.d, (1 pr doc, 1p)

"Keep forever the glorious heritage of youth with Biocrin", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"Out of the Bandbox!: Sleepeezee Bedding", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"The [Radio] Set That Sets a Standard", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"Housing Digest: A New Publication", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"Woman's Journal: Because You Love Your Home", n.d. (1 pr doc, 12pp)

"Duracraft Bedroom Furniture", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"What Every Newly-Wed Should Know: Broderick Furniture", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"Powley Water Paint: for all interior decorating", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"Yeast Pac: Brings Beauty Back", n.d. (1 pr doc,1p)

"Powley Oil Bound Distemper", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"Put-U-Up: Settee-beds", n.d. (1 pr doc, 3pp)

"Eugene: For Lovely, Practical Hairstyles", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"From Coast to Coast - The Nations Host", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"The Butlin Holiday Club", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"For Day and Night Use: Skin Deep Beauty Cream", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"Radiant Cavity Signs: As Clear as Daylight", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"See How You'll Get on If You Make the Navy Your Career", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"Fine Furnishing for 125 years", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"Wandalite Adjustable Table Lamp", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"Best Friend: The Hairdryer that is different", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"Key to Colour Schemes with Sherwoods Paints", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"One Electric Fire for Two Purposes", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"Neolite Brushes", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"Furniture of Distinction: Mawers Ltd", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"What is the EAW", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"Electricity and Woman", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"What is the Future: EAW Point of View of Post-War Reconstruction", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"The EAW Hoe Workers' Certificate", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"The Electrical Association for Women", n.d. (1 pr doc, 1p)

"All England Homefinder and Small Property Guide", March 1947. (1 pr doc, 57pp)

1/9/G:

1/9/H: Quotations from and analysis of Panel Directive Replies: Ideal Home 1948 (Photocopies of badly damaged originals)

Quotations from directives, 1948. (1 ms & ts bundle)

Tabulations, 1948. (1 dup & ms bundle)

Tabulations: "M-O Machine Percentage Sheet", 1948. (1 pr & ms doc, 6pp)

Box 10: Fulham Housing Survey 1938

Survey of the Strode Road housing stock carried out by students at the Architectural Association: "Unit 4-Cox, Farjeon, Field, Goldhill, Grimm"

1/10/A:

"Casebook" on Strode Road (Field & Goldhill): Day Surveys for Thurs 25 Aug, Sat 27 Aug, & Sun 28 Aug 1938, (1 ms bundle)

1/10/B:

Exercise Book: "Condition of Houses", n,d. (1 ms bk)

Notes: "Information from Mr Bartlett Room 393", n.d. (1 ms doc, 11pp)

Tabulations on income, n.d. (1 ms doc, 5pp)

Notes: "Houses to Visit", n.d. (1 ms doc, 1p)

1/10/C-F:

8 envelopes (damaged) containing detailed descriptions of individual houses/flats & their occupants, 1938. (8 ms bundles)