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Drawings for The Priory, Orpington, Bromley, London: service lift and stairway block, proposed library wing
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NOTES: The Priory, which dates from the 13th century, was refurbished and restored by the architects Seely & Paget, when in 1959 the south wing of The Priory was demolished and they built the new public library on the site (1961). The Bromley Museum opened in the restored Priory in 1965.
Designs for residence, 9 Halkin Street, Westminster, London, for Hugh Morrison, Esq.: blueprint of plan and section of electric service elevator
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NOTES: Engineering drawing from Otis Elevator Co. Ltd. Since 1946 the home of the Caledonian Club.
Designs for residence, 9 Halkin Street, Westminster, London, for Hugh Morrison, Esq.: blueprint of plan and section of electric passenger elevator
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NOTES: Engineering drawing from Otis Elevator Co. Ltd. Since 1946 the home of the Caledonian Club.
Palais Garnier (Opera de Paris), Place de l'Opera, Paris: details of the main lift used for the stage machinery
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SOURCE: Charles Garnier: Le nouvel opera de Paris, vol. I (Paris, 1880), pl. 40
Berkeley Square House, Berkeley Square, Mayfair, London: the lift lobby
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NOTES: Berkeley Square House was built in 1938 by Gordon Jeeves and Hector O. Hamilton and was considered Europe's largest office block and one of London's first major reinforced concrete buildings. By the late 1970s it was in need of refurbisment and was given a -ú20 million facelift by Scott Browrigg & Turner.