Records of Gerald E. Burgess, Architect and Surveyor, Dartford

The majority of documents are for buildings in Kent and the earliest is dated 1896 (The Dartford Union Workhouse). Many plans for the 1940s concern property being rebuilt after war damage. Six volumes were also deposited (ledgers and drawings registers).

A number of Ordnance Survey maps were included in the collection and these have been added to the Kent Archive Offices own Ordnance Survey map series where necessary. The series U2724/B3 is stored in Control Centre Map Room

The original bundles were mostly categorised by date with each bundle usually containing plans from the same decade. The bundles were sorted after being received by the Kent Archives Office into districts (town or village) and then weeded for duplicates. Each district was subsequently divided into categories of building type (see separate index) and the plans were then placed in date order. The main catalogue however is sub-divided by building type first and then district. This means that catalogue numbers do not necessarily follow each other consecutively.

So a typical entry is as follows:-

PRIVATE RESIDENCES

Barnehurst

U2724/B3/2 19-29 Park Grove (5 docs.) 1945

Bexley

U2724/B3/16 Hall Place (1 doc.) 1930

BUSINESS/COMMERCIAL PREMISES

Bexley

U2724/B3/24 Tramcar Depot, Bexley Tramways (5 docs.) 1919 n.d.

AGRICULTURAL PREMISES

Bexley

U2724/B3/25 Bourne Place Farm (1 doc.) 1928

INDEX FOR BUILDING-TYPE CATEGORIES:

Private residences [houses, bungalows etc.]

Business/Commercial premises [shops, offices etc.]

Manufacturing premises [factories, works, industrial sites etc.]

Education premises [schools, colleges, training centres etc.]

Leisure-related premises [theatres, cinemas, clubs, pubs etc.]

Religious premises [churches, places of worship, church halls etc.]

Voluntary service premises [halls, headquarters etc.]

Financial premises [banks]

Garages/Petrol Stations

Layout plans [building, housing estates]

Medical premises [hospitals, institutions, nurses homes etc.]

Miscellaneous [e.g. plots, road plans]

Agricultural premises [farms, farmhouses, cowsheds etc.]

N.B. Nurses homes and quarters have been included in the medical category, vicarages and church hall have been included in the religious section, and farm cottages in the agricultural category.

Deposited by Dartford Library 16.3.84