Brown, K.C.

PADDINGTON REHOUSING PROPOSALS 1930'S

The proposals are for replacement of narrow congested streets and small houses with a dual carriage speedway and blocks of flats with open ground in-between them. The plans and drawings have been given to the Greater London Record Office by the son of one of the architects, K.C. Brown, who was interested in European architecture and who after the Second World War went to live and work in Belgium.

The five large maps (ACC/3497/1-5) use as a base photoprinted copies of the 1916 edition of the 25 inch Ordnance Survey of London sheet IV. 8 with the eastern two thirds of sheet IV.7 and sheet IV.12 with the eastern two thirds of sheet IV.11.

Plans and drawings given to the Greater London Record Office - 4 April 1995

The plans and drawings for the proposed redevelopment of the area of Paddington north of the Great Western Railway and south of the Grand Junction Canal and dissected by the Harrow Road were never implemented. They appear to have been prepared as a student exercise in or shortly after 1935 by the three architects whose names appear on the drawings, K.C. Brown, R.A. Fever, and D. Crandon Gill. The larger plans are also labelled "School of Planning and Design for National Development".