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Plan of balcony floor for proposed reconstruction of Burton-on-Trent Opera House. Drawing B2. Signed by John Fairweather F.R.I.B.A. architect, 182 Frontgate Glasgow. Pencil and colour pencils on tracing paper.

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Proposed amendment Burton-on-Trent Opera House design, to retain end and side walls. Signed by John Fairweather F.R.I.B.A. architect, 182 Frontgate Glasgow. Pencil and red ink on tracing paper.

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Plan of balcony floor for proposed reconstruction of Burton-on-Trent Opera House. Drawing C.2. Signed by John Fairweather F.R.I.B.A. architect, 182 Frontgate Glasgow. Pencil and red colour pencil on tracing paper.

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Plans for Burton-on-Trent Opera House building, showing internal room distribution and details of wall structure. Signed by John Fairweather F.R.I.B.A. architect, 182 Frontgate Glasgow. Pencil and red ink on tracing paper.

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Plan of stalls floor for Burton-on-Trent Opera House, scheme D, drawing No.1. Signed by John Fairweather F.R.I.B.A. architect, 182 Frontgate Glasgow. Pencil and red ink on tracing paper.

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Plan of stalls floor for proposed reconstruction of Burton-on-Trent Opera House. Drawing B1. Signed by John Fairweather F.R.I.B.A. architect, 182 Frontgate Glasgow. Pencil and colour pencils on tracing paper.

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Plan of balcony floor for proposed reconstruction of Burton-on-Trent Opera House. Drawing B2. Signed by John Fairweather F.R.I.B.A. architect, 182 Frontgate Glasgow. Pencil and colour pencils on tracing paper.

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Plans for Burton-on-Trent Opera House entresol and balcony. Scheme D, drawing No.3. Signed by John Fairweather F.R.I.B.A. architect, 182 Frontgate Glasgow. Pencil and red ink on tracing paper.

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Plans for Burton-on-Trent Opera House tea room and basement floor and foundations. Scheme D, drawing No.2. Signed by John Fairweather F.R.I.B.A. architect, 182 Frontgate Glasgow. Pencil and red ink on tracing paper.

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Drawings and designs used for the decoration of fairground rides.

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This collection contains a large selection of archives from the Orton and Spooner Company. The collection comprises photographs and cabinet card images showing carved work, structural work and classic painted work, 4 boxes of notes, invoices and clippings, 8 drawers of plans and blueprints, 2 folders of ride specifications and order forms, accounts books and a library of source books showing turn of the century art used by the artists in the company.

Scope and Contents The Peter Blundell Jones Archive is an extensive collection of both physical and digital material covering Professor Blundell Jones' entire career, from his training at the Architectural Association School in the late 1960s up until his death in 2016. The archive contains Blundell Jones’ professional correspondence, research notes, architectural drawings, photographic material and files relating to his writing and teaching, as well as his own architectural practice. The archive...

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Blueprints of electric parts for fairground rides supplied by Mather & Platt Ltd and Hackett & Co., Electrical Engineers to Orton and Spooner.

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A collection of glass-mounted slides relating to German history, literature, theatre and landscape. Ernest Arthur Seemann was a printer and publisher of art and history books, and these slides likely contain the images that were used in E. A. Seeman's publications.

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A collection of 234 photographic images of architectural features of Italian buildings, notably cathedrals, churches and castles created by the Sheffield Society of Architects and Surveyors.

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Page from Sir William Chamber’s Treatise (on Civil Architecture), showing the Tuscan Order for columns and arches.

Scope and Contents Documents relating to Henry Clifton Sorby, Sheffield scientist and Fellow of the Royal Society, in the period 1845-1906.The collection consists of architectural photographs, diaries, a letter, and a set of reprinted papers by Sorby with his manuscript amendments. The eight boxes of architectural photographs taken by Sorby on his travels contain mostly examples from all over England (Prehistoric to modern) but there are a smaller number depicting styles in foreign countries...