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Council Plans I

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Unique IDAS-0569Start date1st January 1870End date1st January 1984FormatPlanDescriptionThis record series contains plans drawn by Council's architects and occasionally by outside contractors. It includes markets, hotels, substations, street furniture (garbage bins, lamp standards etc), conveniences, community facilities and incinerators. The plans are hand-coloured prints, linen tracings or blueprints and occasionally are signed by the Town Clerk and the contractors carrying out the building work.

Most or all of the plans for other Council buildings such as the Sydney Town Hall, the Queen Victoria Building, the Pyrmont Power Station, the Hippodrome and the Capitol Theatre, have been removed and placed in separate record series. (See 'series related' field).

The earliest drawings in this series are 1870 plans of the Exhibition Building. Most of the series pre-dates 1928, although there are a few drawn in 1933. In 1984 two plans for the Strickland Buildings were drawn using the old numbers with a suffix of "A" and "B", eg 1260A and 1260B. These later plans have been left in this record series.

Some of the plans have as many as three different numbers on them. They have the drawing and sheet numbers given to them when they were first drawn, as well as a later number stamped in purple ink on the bottom left-hand corner. This later numbering system has been retained as the control number for this series. It is not known when this system was imposed on the plans although it could have been in 1928 when the City Architect's Department came under the control of the City Engineer.

The plans were divided into two sets - tracings (those on linen) and prints (those on paper). Each set was then numbered consecutively and listed with the prefix "P" for prints and "T" for tracings. CRS 334, Index to Council Plans I, contains a list of the plans that were numbered in this way.

Note about item listing:
In preparing the list of items in this record series, the date of a sheet of plans has usually been set at '1 January' of the year in which it was produced, not at the exact date it was drafted or signed off, which is sometimes noted but can be difficult to establish.
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Start Date: 01/01/1870
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End Date: 01/01/1984Relationship summaryCREATED BY: Properties II AG-0011 (05/12/1983 to 31/12/1984) CREATED BY: City Engineering and Building Surveyors Department AG-0061 (01/01/1929 to 01/06/1936) CREATED BY: City Architect and Building Surveyors Department I AG-0078 (01/01/1882 to 01/09/1928) CREATED BY: City Architect AG-0077 (16/06/1873 to 31/12/1881) CREATED BY: City Engineer and City Surveyors Department I AG-0086 (01/01/1870 to 01/01/1890) RELATED TO: Electric power generation AY-10 RELATED TO: Pyrmont Destructor Plans drawn by Contractors Messrs. Hughes and Sterling AS-0417 RELATED TO: Architectural and Engineering Drawings Relating to the Hyde Park Project AS-0784 RELATED TO: Plans of Moore Park Destructor by Contractors AS-0416 (01/01/1909 to 01/01/1913) RELATED TO: Plans of the Pyrmont Power Station AS-0342 (01/01/1904 to 01/01/1927) RELATED TO: Miscellaneous Council Plans AS-0805 (01/01/1870 to 01/01/1928) RELATED TO: Specifications for Council Properties AS-0130 (01/01/1885 to 01/01/1928) RELATED TO: Provision and management of public toilets AY-39 (01/01/1870 to 01/01/1984) RELATED TO: Construction and maintenance of buildings and structures AY-1 (01/01/1870 to 01/01/1984) LanguageEnglish (eng)

Series

Miscellaneous Council Plans

Council Plans II

Plans of the Queen Victoria Building (QVB)

Plans of the Pyrmont Power Station

Plans of the Sydney Town Hall

Specifications for Council Properties [Municipal Council of Sydney / City of Sydney]

Item

Electricity Sub-Station William Street, Double Bay

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Public access statusOpen to public accessPublic access noteAccess Notes:Record items are normally made available in the form of 35mm microfilm copies (aperture cards)
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Source system ID569System of arrangementSingle number, alphabetical prefix

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