ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT

DB/D

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT

Summary of classes

Engineer and Surveyor's Department

DB/D/1 Brighton CB: registers of abstracts of accounts, registers of cartage returns, specifications, private drains ledger, register of sewer connections, register of erection of private air raid shelters; 1860-1942

DB/D/2 Brighton CB: registers of building notices; 1861-1961

DB/D/3 Brighton CB: indexes of building regulation plans; 1861-1904

DB/D/4 Brighton CB: registers of buildings fit for occupation; 1900-1925

DB/D/5 Brighton Improvement Commissioners under the Act of 1825: Surveyors' reports; 1836-1853

DB/D/6 Brighton CB: indexes to the Borough Engineer's plan series, consisting of new buildings, alterations, abattoir, aquarium, artisans' dwellings, air raid precautions, baths, beach and groynes, drainage, destructor, drinking fountains, East Brighton estate, electric light stations, electric lighting, streets and cables, lamps, lithographs, Haywards Heath asylum, markets, new streets, ovens, parish maps, petroleum installations, Pavilion estate, Pavilion estate (dome), Pavilion estate (library and museum), parliamentary plans, Preston Park, pavements, Queen's Park, recreation grounds, Rottingdean, numbering, sea frontages, Sanatorium (Borough Hospital), sundry roads, School of Art at Grand Parade, smallholdings and allotments, store yards, sundries, Technical School, telephones, Tenantry Down, Town Hall, urinals, vaults, agreement plans, town improvement plans, new and altered buildings in Patcham and Preston, numerical indexes; 1830-1987

DB/D/7 Brighton CB: building regulation plans for new buildings; 1862-1932

DB/D/8 Brighton CB: building regulation plans for alterations; 1830-1934

DB/D/9 Brighton CB: Engineer's abattoir plans; 1879-1935

DB/D/10 Brighton CB: Engineer's agreement plans; 1900-1914

DB/D/11 Brighton CB: Engineer's air raid precautions plans; 1930 missing on transfer

DB/D/12 Brighton CB: Engineer's aquarium plans; 1868-1939

DB/D/13 Brighton CB: Engineer's artisans' dwellings plans; 1878-1939

DB/D/14 Brighton CB: Engineer's baths plans; 1860-1935

DB/D/15 Brighton CB: Engineer's beach and groynes plans; 1827-1935

DB/D/16 Brighton CB: Engineer's destructor plans; 1892-1935

DB/D/17 Brighton CB: Engineer's drainage plans; 1837-1917

DB/D/18 Brighton CB: Engineer's drinking fountain plans; 1859-1916

DB/D/19 Brighton CB: Engineer's East Brighton estate plans; 1913-1955

DB/D/20 Brighton CB: Engineer's electric light stations plans; 1890-1937

DB/D/21 Brighton CB: Engineer's electric lighting, streets and cables plans; 1892-1935

DB/D/22 Brighton CB: Engineer's Haywards Heath Asylum plans; 1912-1937 missing on transfer

DB/D/23 Brighton CB: Engineer's plans of lamps; 1834-1937

DB/D/24 Brighton CB: Engineer's lithograph plans; 1816-1893

DB/D/25 Brighton CB: Engineer's market plans; 1828-1935

DB/D/26 Brighton CB: Engineer's new street plans; 1835-1859

DB/D/27 Brighton CB: Engineer's numbering plans; 1881-1966 missing on transfer

DB/D/28 Brighton CB: Engineer's ovens plans; 1830-1892

DB/D/29 Brighton CB: Engineer's parish map plans; nd missing on transfer

DB/D/30 Brighton CB: Engineer's Parliamentary plans; 1836-1931

DB/D/31 Brighton CB: Engineer's pavement plans; 1833-1957

DB/D/32 Brighton CB: Engineer's Pavilion estate plans ('Mr Goods plans'); 1827-1836 missing on transfer

DB/D/33 Brighton CB: Engineer's Pavilion estate plans; 1803-1938 missing on transfer

DB/D/34 Brighton CB: Engineer's Pavilion estate (dome) plans; 1851-1933

DB/D/35 Brighton CB: Engineer's Pavilion estate (library and museum) plans; 1864-1930

DB/D/36 Brighton CB: Engineer's petroleum installations plans; ? -1963

DB/D/37 Brighton CB: Engineer's Preston Park plans; 1876-1935

DB/D/38 Brighton CB: Engineer's Queen's Park plans; 1888-1931

DB/D/39 Brighton CB: Engineer's recreation grounds plans; 1889-1952

DB/D/40 Brighton CB: Engineer's plans of Rottingdean; 1924-1937 missing on transfer

DB/D/41 Brighton CB: Engineer's Sanatorium (Borough Hospital) plans; 1879-1931

DB/D/42 Brighton BC: Engineer's School of Art (Grand Parade) plans; 1897

DB/D/43 Brighton CB: Engineer's sea frontages plans; 1823-1939

DB/D/44 Brighton CB: Engineer's small holdings and allotments plans; 1909-1933

DB/D/45 Brighton CB: Engineer's store yards plans; 1893-1904

DB/D/46 Brighton CB: Engineer's sundries plans; 1824-1950

DB/D/47 Brighton CB: Engineer's plans of sundry roads; 1837-1895

DB/D/48 Brighton CB: Engineer's Technical School plans; 1893-1904

DB/D/49 Brighton CB: Engineer's telephones plans; 1900-1924 missing on transfer

DB/D/50 Brighton CB: Engineer's Tenantry Down plans; 1834-1935 missing on transfer

DB/D/51 Brighton CB: Engineer's Town Hall plans; 1829-1922

DB/D/52 Brighton CB: Engineer's town improvements plans; 1824-1939

DB/D/53 Brighton CB: Engineer's plans of urinals; 1847-1938

DB/D/54 Brighton CB: Engineer's plans of vaults; 1827-1921

DB/D/55 Chailey RDC: building regulation plans of new buildings in Stanmer and Falmer; 1934-1952

DB/D/56 Newhaven RDC: building regulation plans of new buildings and alterations in Ovingdean, Rottingdean and Saltdean; 1890-1928

DB/D/57 Steyning East RDC: building regulation plans of new buildings and alterations in Patcham (and Preston); 1895-1928

DB/D/58 Brighton CB: Borough Engineer and Surveyor's accounts; 1874-1937

DB/D/59 Brighton CB: Borough Engineer and Surveyor's correspondence files, consisting of the Town Hall, Volk's Railway, memorials, plaques and statues, Palace Pier, Shoreham Harbour, sewers, Henfield sand pit estate, highways, sea defences, Saltdean, Odean Cinema, Joint Industrial Council, air raid precautions, Rottingdean, Preston Manor, cinematograph licences, buildings damaged by enemy action, traffic census, aquarium, Stanmer, footpaths, factory sites, housing, Devil's Dyke Golf Club, Festival of Britain, Pavilion, requisitioned land, rights of way survey, Fish Market, helicopter landing station, youth employment, television studio at Patcham, 'skydeck' project, enquiries and questionnaires; 1888-1971

Parks and Gardens Department

DB/D/60 Brighton CB: gardeners' time books; 1883-1913

DB/D/61 Brighton CB: Preston Park gardeners' time books; 1878-1899

DB/D/62 Brighton CB: general registered files, consisting of allotments, appointment of Parks Superintendent, aquarium, maintenance of gardens in squares, tennis courts, children's playgrounds, relief work, East Brighton estate, Moulescoomb nursery, Dyke Road Park, Carnden Park, Varndean playing fields, Festival of Britain, Garden competitions, foreshore improvements, Hollingbury Park, Chattri Indian memorial, Moulescoomb Place, Patcham Place, Preston Park, cycle track, race course, Pavilion, Rottingdean Grange, Saltdean estate, war memorial, Laughton Lodge Hospital, Waterhall Farm; 1923-1966

DB/D/63 Brighton CB: horticultural registered files, consisting of Gardens of Greeting, Festival of Flowers, plant trials; 1958-1983

DB/D/64 Brighton CB: miscellaneous registered files, consisting of public golf courses and allotments, repairs to buildings, smallholdings, annual review of establishment; 1948-1969

DB/D/65 Brighton CB: unregistered files, consisting of cottages and vacancies at Stanmer, Stanmer Park, licences and contracts, Gardens of the North, community hall grants, provision of play schemes, training pack on sexual harassment; 1947-1990

DB/D/66 Brighton CB: Sussex Parks Training Group minutes; 1974-1984

DB/D/67 Brighton CB: horticultural record and report books; 1935-1956

DB/D/68 Brighton CB: printed and published works, including histories of the Parks and Gardens Department and Moulescoomb Place; 1954-1978

DB/D/69 Brighton CB: plans and drawings; 1919-1968

Engineer and Surveyor's Department

DB/D/70 Brighton CB: development plan documents

DB/D/71 Brighton CB: annual reports

DB/D/72 Brighton CB: Borough Surveyor's byelaws and local legislation; 1863-1935

Parks and Gardens Department

DB/D/73 Brighton CB: Head Gardener's report books; 1883-1913

DB/D/74 Brighton CB: Superintendent's report books; 1913-1950

DB/D/75 Brighton CB: Superintendent's Council agenda reference books; 1937-1974

DB/D/76 Brighton CB: Superintendent's reference books to committee minutes; 1931-1976

DB/D/77 Brighton CB: allotment manager's committee reference book; 1938-1952

DB/D/78 Brighton CB: committee references to golf courses; 1945-1958

DB/D/79 Brighton CB: allotments expenditure record books; 1946-1959

DB/D/80 Brighton CB: register of sick leave; 1939-1955

DB/D/81 Brighton CB: photographs; 1927-1955

DB/D/82 Brighton CB: glass lantern slides; 1919-1930s

DB/D/83 Brighton CB: prints of the lantern slides, including Coombe Road School, Dyke Road Park, the Pavilion, Western Lawns, aquarium, School of Art garden, the Level, East Brighton estate, Preston Park, Roedale nurseries; 1919-1930s

Engineer and Surveyor's Department

DB/D/84 Brighton CB: Engineer's plans, chronological first series; 1936-1975

DB/D/85 Brighton CB: Engineer's plans, chronological second series; 1953-1967

Parks and Gardens Department

DB/D/86 Burial ground files; 1935-1952

DB/D/87 Plans of Cemeteries; 1949-1951

DB/D/88 Plans of Parks and park buildings; 1932-1939

DB/D/89 Inland Revenue Valuation map, 1912

English

Parks and Gardens Department

The Recreation Grounds Committee was established in January 1883. It was responsible for the management of all the Corporation's public parks and pleasure gardens. In 1902 when it took over the property and duties of the former Brighton Burial Board it was renamed the Parks, Gardens and Cemetery Committee. It later became the Parks Committee.

The department was based at Moulsecoomb Place until the house was sold to Brighton University in about 1992.

For minutes of the Parks Committee from 1883, see DB/B/21/1-28 and for minutes of the golf-links sub-committee, 1907-1918, see DB/B/22/1-2.

Head Gardeners

James W Shrives Jan 1883 - Oct 1890

George Ward Oct 1890 - Jul 1897

Superintendents of Parks and Gardens

George Ward Jul 1897 - Jun 1920

B H MacLaren Jul 1920 - Jul 1940

John Raymond

Berridge Evison (acting) Aug 1940 - Apr 1943

B H MacLaren May 1943 - Sep 1951

John Raymond

Berridge Evison Oct 1951 -