Manchester City Council: City Engineer and City Surveyor's Department

The following is a draft list. The collection awaits full cataloguing.

City Engineers and City Surveyors files:

Chorlton Baths (2384) 1913-1932 [M723/1]

Swinton House School (Education Committee) 1906-1937 [M723/1]

Allotments - Abbey Hey, Gorton (1987) 1911-1945 [M723/2]

Street accidents (1603) 1937-1939 [M723/3]

Broadhurst Park, Moston (2789) 1919-1937 [M723/4]

Swinton Schools (4050) 1929-1950 [M723/5]

Free Trade Hall (2892) 1918-1940 [M723/6]

Police and fire stations (175) 1896-1899 [M723/7]

Police stations (428) 1900-1902 [M723/8]

Philips Park and Cemetery (2243) 1890-1938 [M723/9]

Northern Cemetery (1904) 1894-1930 [M723/10]

Monsall Hospital (629) 1915-1932 [M723/10]

Unhealthy areas (2866) 1920-1932 [M723/11]

Carrington Hospital (407) 1898-1900 [M723/12]

Gore Brook pollution (435) 1907-1944 [M723/13]

War memorials - general (437) 1907-1937 [M723/13]

Explosions and foul air in sewers (463) 1907-1938 [M723/13]

Athenaeum (2227) 1912-1920 [M723/14]

Slade Hall (2013) c.1910-1911 [M723/14]

Crematorium (2447) 1909-1937 [M723/14]

Barton Power Station: purchase of original site from Trafford Park Estates (2297) 1920-1922 [M723/15]

Barton Power Station (2300) 1913-1943 [M723/15]

School for Mentally Deficient Children, Cheetham Hill Road and Queen's Road (3384) 1924-1935 [M723/15]

Motor Omnibus (363) 1906-1908 [M723/16]

Fire Escapes, Lodging Houses (344) 1905-1911 [M723/16]

Victoria Baths well boring (318) 1898-1901 [M723/17]

Midland Hotel (210) 1897-1909 [M723/18]

Sanitary - general (295) 1896-1904 [M723/19]

Didsbury, Christ Church (2120) 1912-1925 [M723/ 20]

Traffic congestion special (2462) 1912-1916 [M723/21]

Proposed Exchange Royal Infirmary site (2183) 1911-1913 [M723/21]

Philips Park Cemetery (1722) 1902-1934 [M723/21]

Roman wall (2832) 1924-1949 [M723/22]

Partington Gas Works (2999) 1921-1923 [M723/23]

Underground urinals, Clopton Street and Ward Street (599) 1902-1904 [M723/24]

Haweswater Aqueduct (3699) 1921-1944 [M723/25]

Viaduct, Clayton Vale Lane (207) 1902-1918 [M723/25]

Slum clearance, Ancoats (1652) 1934-1943 [M723/26]

Ardwick, baths and warehouses site, Chancery Lane (2989) 1920-1926 [M723/26]

South Manchester Grammar School 1921-1943 [M723/26]

Labourers' dwelling etc. (273) 1898-1902 [M723/27]

Moss Side sewage (364) 1856-1908 [M723/28]

Mill Street police and fire station (567) 1901-1902 [M723/29]

Bridges (general) 1848-1901 [M723/29]

Police (3755) 1929-1946 [M723/30]

Southern Cemetery (3855) 1929-1939 [M723/30]

'B' Division police boxes and section houses (3591b) 1927-1939 [M723/31]

Redundant police stations (3591) 1928-1939 [M723/32]

Ringway Airport - general (1508) 1936-1942 [M723/33]

Royal Infirmary, Piccadilly (198) 1853-1900 very fragile: badly water-damaged [M723/34]

Rainfall (457) 1878-1932 [M723/35]

Moss Side sewage (488) 1908-1909 [M723/36]

Royal Exchange - valuations (1900) 1910-1911 [M723/37]

North Manchester High School for Boys, Chain Bar, Moston (38221) 1926-1930

[M723/37]

Mines and minerals (3745) 1927 [M723/38]

Royal exchange (2112) 1912 [M723/38]

Sewer explosion, Sandal Street (162) 1901-1902 [M723/39]

Hospitals (26) 1892-1897 [M723/40]

Royal Exchange, C. Heathcote (2113) 1910-1912 [M723/41]

Sites for Hulme Baths, etc. (2408) 1913-1914 [M723/41]

Rivers (152) 1895-1910 [M723/42]

Baths - general (138) 1895-1899 [M723/43]

Building of Walton House (302) 1898-1900 [M723/44]

Union Street Bridge (197) 1902-1904 [M723/45]

Parks (154) 1896-1899 [M723/46]

Blackley Estate (605) 1901-1909 [M723/47]

Blackley Estate (423) 1899-1902 [M723/48]

Monsall Hospital (484) 1901-1903 [M723/49]

Kemsley Newspapers Limited (1007) 1919-1944 [M723/50]

Trades refuse (429) 1907-1915 [M723/51]

60 cottages, Miles Platting (206) 1895-1898 [M723/52]

Anson Estate (2786) 1918-1935 [M723/53]

Index to Files Ab-Bz [M723/54]

Index to Files Ca-Ez [M723/55]

Index to Files Fa-Kz [M723/56]

Index to Files La-Pu [M723/57]

Index to Files Q-Sw [M723/58]

Index to Files Th-Z [M723/59]

Newspaper Cuttings Jul 1934-Jan1938 [M723/60]

Newspaper Cuttings Jan 1938-Jun 1945 [M723/61]

Newspaper Cuttings Nov 1949-Jun 1950 [M723/62]

Newspaper Cuttings Jun 1950-Jan 1951 & Jan-Dec 1951 [M723/63]

Newspaper Cuttings Sep 1957-Mar 1958 [M723/64]

Newspaper Cuttings Mar-Sep 1958 [M723/65]

Newspaper Cuttings Feb-Sep 1962 [M723/66]

Copy Letters Books General Sep 1896-Feb 1897 [M723/67]

Copy Letter Books General Feb-Aug 1899 [M723/68]

Copy Letter Books General Aug 1899-Jan 1900 [M723/69]

Paving, Sewerage & Highways Committee 'New Streets and Passages' Apportionment Accounts Approved Jan 1895-May 1901 [M723/70]

Paving, Sewerage & Highways Committee 'New Streets and Passages' Apportionment Accounts Approved May 1901-Jul 1907 & Jul 1907-Jul 1913 [M723/71]

Cost of Works, Volume 1 c.1917-1920s [M723/72]

Cost of Works, Volume 2 c.1917-1920s [M723/73]

Cost of Works, Volume 4 c.1917-1920s [M723/74]

Cost of Works, Volume 5 c.1917-1920s [M723/75]

Cost of Works, Volume 6 c.1917-1920s [M723/76]

Air Road Precaution (ARP) Warden Posts 1-5, correspondence and papers 1939 [M723/77]

Semi-Private Shelter 1198-1799, 1939 [M723/78]

Particulars of concrete roads 1920s [M723/79]

Particulars of concrete roads 1930s [M723/80] - Do not produce until cleaned

Drawing of Proposed Heliport - near Victoria Station by R. Nicholas, City Surveyor, 1956 [M723/81 outsize]

Plan of Proposed Heliport - near Victoria Station by R. Nicholas, City Surveyor, 1956 [M723/82 outsize]

Box of material awaiting cleaning and cataloguing [M723/83] - Do not produce until cleaned

The City Engineers Plan File (M723/84) is a large collection of microfiche cards of plans of streets, sewers, areas and planning documents.

Related Material:See M582 for staff records, 1913-1946.

This department also created several thousand plans of sewer works dating from 1830 onwards. These were catalogued and microfiched by the Department in 1988. For further details see the article 'Mapping Manchester's Sewers: The Engineering Archives Project' in the Manchester Regional History Review, Volume 2 Number 2, Autumn/Winter 1988/89' (http://web.archive.org/web/20070221174041/http://www.mcrh.mmu.ac.uk/pubs/pdf/mrhr_02ii_john_guest.pdf). These microfiche and catalogue are now held by United Utilities. A sample of the original plans for Central District has been catalogued at GB127.M845.