Volume: Stonehenge Underpass and Welfare Block

Description

File containing 12 folders of photographs of the visitor facilities at Stonehenge. There are views of the original ticket/sales hut in 1929; the Warminster Road junction to Stonehenge showing cottages, cafe and AA box in 1929 and early 1930s; visitors at the ticket office and car park in 1960; views of proposals for a tea lounge of 1960 together with an artists impression of the structure of 1962; the construction, opening and use of the underpass in 1968; and photographs of a model of a proposed welfare centre and presentation drawings by Peter Sainsbury of 1972-1973.

These images relate, in part, to coverage in AL0919

Archival History

Prints duplicating the contents of albums have been destroyed. Only prints not in albums or images of superior quality to those in albums have been retained and catalogued. Most of the material is catalogued at folder (level 4.5) level.

Content

This is part of the Series: OWS01/01 The 'Blue Albums'; within the Collection: OWS01 Office Of Works And Successors: Ancient Monuments And Historic Buildings

This Volume contains the following materials:

Photograph (Print): 60

File: 1

Rights

© Crown Copyright. Historic England Archive